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‘Professional Escort’ Tells Daily Caller Menendez Was One of Her Clients

Posted on | February 25, 2013 | 6 Comments

It is, necessarily, a one-source story:

A professional escort who travels the East Coast seeing clients in cities from Miami to Boston has identified a photo of Senator Bob Menendez as a man who paid her for sex. The woman, in her late 30s, told The Daily Caller prior to seeing Menendez’s photo that she had been paid to provide sexual favors to several U.S. senators, including a New Jersey Democrat and other politicians who are no longer living.
The escort, who earns money having sex with men in upscale hotel rooms, said during an in-person interview that many of her wealthy and powerful customers use pseudonyms when arranging for her services, and when meeting her in person. . . .
The woman granted multiple interviews to The Daily Caller after reading TheDC’s reporting on the fast-evolving Menendez saga.

You can read the rest. I would be cautious about a source like this, who contacts reporters after reading coverage of a scandal. Not to say that I doubt Senator Menendez patronizes prostitutes, just saying that without some corroborating evidence — a credit card receipt, a hotel bill, etc. — I’d be cautious about the source. Perhaps the Daily Caller has such corroboration and is witholding it.

The question of whether Menendez was in the habit of patronizing prostitutes is, of course, relevant to his relationship with Florida businessman Salomon Melgen and their alleged sex parties in the Dominican Republic, where prostitution is legal, but where at least one Dominican prostitute told reporter Matthew Boyle that she had sex with Menendez when she was 15, which is illegal even there.

If Menendez is indeed a corrupt scoundrel — and sources familiar with the story assure me that the New Jersey Democrat is, well, a New Jersey Democrat — then he’s now resorted to a sort of defamation to defend himself against the truth:

Sen. Robert Menendez, bedeviled in recent weeks by questions over his conduct, told hundreds gathered for a Black History Month celebration today that he found strength in the words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Dr. King said that ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,’” Mendez said, prompting calls of “alright” from some in the audience at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton. “In the end, I believe that justice will overcome the forces of darkness. Scriptures — scriptures tell us that he who ‘puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God.’
“I have my hand on the plough,” he said, “and I am going to continue to look forward and to work to make that plough lead us to the fulfillment of educational, economic and health care opportunity in this country.”
After slipping away from Washington for a week to meet with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Menendez returned to New Jersey to find himself down sharply in the polls.
But he did not hide from his troubles. Rather, the New Jersey Democrat addressed the accusations of impropriety as he lashed out: “Now we face anonymous, faceless, nameless individuals from right-wing sources seeking to destroy a lifetime of work. And their scares are false. I have worked too hard and too long in the vineyards to allow, at my hands, for the harvest to be soured.”

If he’s guilty, that sermon will come back to haunt him.

UPDATE: Matthew Boyle stays on the story:

A local citizen who lives near Teterboro airport in northern New Jersey said he saw Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his friend Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen brunching together on Easter Sunday in 2012.
The citizen, who is active in local politics and a regular patron of the restaurant, told Breitbart News he saw Menendez and Melgen dining together at Arena Diner between shortly before noon and 12:15 p.m. on Easter Sunday last year, April 8, 2012. That is the timeframe in which Melgen’s plane refueled at Teterboro before flying directly to the Dominican Republic.

The question of Menendez’s whereabouts on Easter weekend arose because travel records showed Dr. Melgen’s plane flying to New Jersey that weekend before flying to the Dominican Republic, while Menendez — who has admitted other trips aboard Dr. Melgen’s plan — has denied making this specific trip. It seems rather odd that Dr. Melgen would have flown all the way to New Jersey merely to have brunch with the senator. Why?

Follow Matthew Boyle’s continuing coverage at Breitbart.com.

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Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Dominican Republic, New Jersey, Scandal, Sex

What Daria’s Grandfather Knew

Posted on | February 25, 2013 | 1 Comment

Daria DiGiovanni commented on an earlier post:

My maternal grandfather, who arrived with his widowed mother from Italy at the age of eight, was a staunch McCarthy supporter and anti-communist. He graduated from Temple Pharmacy School in 1919 and went on to open his own corner pharmacy in their neighborhood. My mom used to share her stories of running home from school to watch the McCarthy trials, whom her father regarded as an American patriot and hero. Due to her father’s influence, my mom has always been a conservative activist, which is where I received my early political knowledge.

Daria’s blog is here. And you can follow her on Twitter.

Category: History

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.25.13

Posted on | February 25, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
President Tries To Panic Oklahomans Over Sequester

The President addresses a crowd of locals in this Mel Brooks dramatic re-enactment

Karzai Orders U.S. Units Out Of Key Province
Special Forces accused of torture

Your 100% Bile-Filled Oscars Live Blog
Burn, Hollywood, Burn



POLITICS
Markey, Lynch Scramble For Signatures As Deadline Nears

Only days left to gather petition signatures

Farrakhan Focuses On Economics In Chicago Speech

Supremes To Hear Arguments In Maryland DNA Case

19 Teenagers Arrested After Rampage Shuts Down Chicago Mall

Budget’s Bottom Line: New Jersey Needs Revenue Bonanza

Senators Close In On Gun Background Check Agreement

Forrest Gump At The Treasury

Voting Rights Act Faces Supreme Court Challenge



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Stagnant Over The Weekend: NYMEX $93.02, Brent $114.19
Yen Rises On Word of New BOJ Chief (Video)
KFC Unveils Tighter QC In PRC To Rebuild Brand After Chicken Scandal
MasterCard To Expand Digital Wallet Service Beyond NFC
Bernanke Said To Minimize Asset-Bubble Concern At Dealers Meeting
Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment
Will The Dreamliner Fly Again?
Seattle Times To Begin Charging For Full Digital Access
Yahoo’s Meyer Bringing Remote Employees Back To The Office
Regulators Examining Big Banks Over Payday Loan Enabling
Mozilla To Launch Firefox Phones In July
Intel Mobile Moves Include Refocus On Android Tablets
Hands On With Samsung’s New Galaxy Note 8
HP’s Android-Powered Slate 7 Tablet Is Cheap, And It Works, But Is That Really Enough?
Firefox To Spit Out Third-Party Cookies
Pinterest Hacked, E-Mail Addresses Compromised



SPORTS
Blackhawks Stretch Streak To 18 With Blue Jackets Shutout

Crawford: 28 saves FTW

Crawford: 28 saves FTW

Blue Jackets fall to 5-18-2 after going 0 for 5 in power plays

Heat Survive Cavaliers Comeback, Keep Streak Alive

Brodeur Pulled Late As Devils Fall To Jets

Jimmie Johnson Returns To Victory Lane At Daytona

Carmelo Anthony Guides Knicks Past Sixers To Snap Skid

Iginla Scores Two As Flames Edge Coyotes

Hard Feelings Already Ratcheting Up In AL East; Granderson Out For Ten Weeks With Broken Arm

Thunder Thump Bulls, Re-Sign Derek Fisher

Red Wings Clobber Canucks 8-3

Christian Garcia Undergoes MRI For Arm Tightness
We reported last week that Pudge Rodriguez has rejoined the Nationals as special assistant to the GM; he has in fact rejoined the Rangers. We bitterly regret the error. 🙁



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Christina Applegate Gets Married

Christina and Martyn

Christina and Martyn

Gets hitched to daughter’s baby daddy, Martyn LeNoble


Simon Cowell Looking For Love After Split From Carmen Electra

Suge Knight MIA From Court, Arrest Warrants Issued

Elton John Finishes New Album, Eyes September Release Date

Jenny McCarthy: One Last Thing


Moving On Swiftly: Harry Styles Looking Forward To Second Date With Model Millie Brady

Quvenzhane Willis From “Beasts Of The Southern Wild” To Play Title Role In “Annie” Remake

Charlize Theron Helps Security Guard Who Suffered Seizure

“Modern Family” Star Sofia Vergara Cancels Oscar Plans After Hospitalization



FOREIGNERS
Power Returns To Pakistan Cities After Nationwide Grid Collapse
Raul Castro Re-Elected President Of Cuba
Park Geun-Hye Takes Office As ROK President
Markets Brace For Crucial Italy Election
Conservative Candidate Takes Power As Cyprus Verges On Bankruptcy
Morsi’s Call For April Vote Won’t Calm Egypt’s Streets
UK Cardinal To Fight “Inappropriate Acts” Claims



BLOGS & STUFF
Atlas Shrugs: Post-American President – Karzai Orders SF Out Of Wardak Province
This Ain’t Hell: If It Is Sunday It MUST Be A Silly?
Ed Driscoll: Hollywood Sucker Punch
Weasel Zippers: Bloomberg’s Big Gulp Ban To Outlaw Two-Liter Soda Bottles
Via Meadia: Tom Friedman Gets Mexico Right
Legal Insurrection: NYT’s Rutenberg Uses Blowtorch On Free Beacon While Defending Think Progress
The Weekly Standard Blog: NYT Fronts Expose On Goldfarb
NewsBusters: WaPo “Guppy” Ezra Klein Lamely Claims 2012 Win Allows Obama To Break Tax Pledge, Include Tax Hikes In Sequestration
Protein Wisdom: NYT Comes Up With New Categories Of People Who Should Be Barred From Second Amendment
Lonely Conservative: Latest ObamaCare News (It’s All Bad)

Category: Live at Five

Never Forget: Joe McCarthy Was Right!

Posted on | February 24, 2013 | 55 Comments

Senator Joseph McCarthy, a courageous and patriotic American.

“Senator Cruz’s substantive point was absolutely correct: in the mid-1990s, the Harvard Law School faculty included numerous self-described proponents of ‘critical legal studies’ — a school of thought explicitly derived from Marxism – and they far outnumbered Republicans.”
— Catherine Frazier, spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz

Democrats and the major news media — but I repeat myself — have decided that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s opposition to the Chuck Hagel nomination makes him the “New McCarthy.”

And they say that like it’s a bad thing.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy has been unjustly and dishonestly maligned for so long that even many conservative Republicans nowadays use “McCarthyism” as a slur, without any real understanding of who the man was, or what he was trying to accomplish.

Intellectuals who today think of themselves as the rightful heirs of William F. Buckley Jr. often seem to forget that the second book Buckley wrote, after God and Man at Yale, was McCarthy and His Enemies, which Buckley co-authored with his brother-in-law Brent Bozell (father of Brent Bozell III, who is today head of the Media Research Center). Buckley knew, as do all honest and intelligent students of the Cold War era, that even if one stipulates McCarthy made mistakes and had unfortunate personality traits, he was really a better man than his vindictive critics, and certainly more sincerely patriotic than the Communist enemies he sought to expose.

To truly understand this history, it is necessary at the outset for any student to make two crucial distinctions:

  1. McCarthy vs. ‘McCarthyism’ — Propagandists of the Left, including journalists and academics, have made Joe McCarthy a symbol of things for which he was not even remotely responsible. Joe McCarthy did not create a “Red Scare.” Concerns about Communist penetration of the federal government, and about Soviet espionage, existed before anyone outside Wisconsin had ever heard of Joe McCarthy. He was not repsonsible for “blacklisting” anyone in Hollywood or getting Communist teachers fired from public schools. Investigations of Communist subversion undertaken by the FBI and the House Committee on Un-American Activities preceded Joe McCarthy’s arrival in the Senate and continued for years after McCarthy was dead and buried in a Wisconsin grave. However, by demonizing McCarthy, and making him a scarecrow symbol for alleged wrongs that he had nothing to do with, leftists have attached to McCarthy’s name a radioactive taint that makes it difficult for people to separate the complex Man from the simplistic Myth.
  2. Espionage vs. Subversion — This is arguably the greatest stumbling block to understanding the dangerous Soviet-backed conspiracy that Joe McCarthy sought to expose. Many people erroneously believe that McCarthy was hunting for “spies,” but this is a gross misconception, both of what the Communist Party (CPUSA) was about and of what McCarthy was investigating. As was clearly evident to investigators at the time, and as has since been documented by information from Soviet archives and from declassified U.S. government sources, the CPUSA was at all times an instrument of Soviet policy. This was especially so during the era of Stalin’s dictatorship, when deviation from the Party line could be quite literally fatal. Beyond the (very real) spying conducted by CPUSA members — including clandestine “underground” members — there were also American Communists who sought to influence U.S. policy in a pro-Soviet direction, at a time when Stalin’s reign of terror extended across Eastern Europe and when Communists were actively advocating a violent worldwide Marxist-Leninist revolution. It was the network of pro-Soviet influencers, as agents of subversion, that was the real target of McCarthy’s investigations.

Years ago, I interviewed M. Stanton Evans, author of the definitive biography, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies. Evans is a man who knew Bill Buckley well, and who helped draft the famous “Sharon Statement” that was in effect the charter of the modern American conservative movement. No living person knows more about Joe McCarthy than does Stan Evans.

After listening to Evans describe his research, during our interview I pointed out the distinction between espionage and subversion and Evans’s eyes lit up with excitement: “Yes! Exactly! You get it!”

What McCarthy was trying to uncover was the mystery of how and why Soviet agents inside the U.S. government had gone undetected for so long. Once anyone begins to seek answers to that question — even today, more than two decades after the Evil Empire imploded under the weight of its own folly — certain conclusions quickly become obvious: There were people in government who did not want these secret Soviet agents exposed, people who saw no need for caution toward employing CPUSA members (or members of Communist-backed front groups) in key government positions.

The atmosphere of suspicion for which McCarthy is blamed was actually the fault of Communists themselves, and of their misguided liberal defenders who either failed to understand the danger or else were inspired by political or ideological motives to be (as it was commonly said) “soft on Communism.” And, in point of fact, it was the attitude of these liberals — derided in Cold War slang as “dupes,” or “pinkos,” or “Commie symps” — that did so much to anesthetize America, to foster the idea that Soviet aggression and domestic subversion were exaggerated dangers, thus creating a stuporous indifference that made this subversion possible.

Communists created suspicion by the intense secrecy of their underground agents, and their sympathizers or “dupes” heightened this suspicion by celebrating those who pleaded the Fifth Amendment in refusing to testify to Congress about their involvement with the CPUSA and the Party’s various front groups.

Keep in mind that the U.S. fought a bloody war against Communist aggression in Korea and that, with the aid of traitorous spies, the Soviets had obtained atomic secrets, so that America was locked in a deadly nuclear standoff with Stalin’s paranoid regime.

Under such circumstances, weren’t Americans entirely right to be outraged at seeing witnesses, who were charged with no crime, hide behind the Fifth Amendment and refuse to tell Congress about what they did and who they knew during their involvement with the Communist Party. And if responsible authorities had failed to investigate whether persons employed by the federal government were affiliated with the CPUSA — and they quite clearly had so failed — wasn’t it important to determine whether these security failures were the result of incompetence? Furthermore, isn’t it unfair to say that McCarthy, in trying to identify the persons responsible for these lapses, was engaged in mere demagoguery or pursuing an irrational “witch hunt”?

The witches were real!

There were indeed Communists who had infiltrated the federal government. And there was every reason to believe that the officials responsible for the lapses of security that had permitted this infiltration were engaged in a cover-up intended to prevent anyone from learning whether these lapses were mere incompetence or rather, as many suspected, something far more sinister.

Don’t lecture me about the “civil rights” of dishonest villains who were willing stooges of the murderous totalitarian Josef Stalin, and don’t tell me that the faults or errors of Joseph McCarthy made him worse than the Communists he sought to expose.

Ted Cruz’s critics now seem to be pursuing an inventory of the Harvard Law School faculty to determine whether Cruz exaggerated the ratio of Marxists to Republicans, as if this would discredit Cruz more than it does Harvard. Any patriotic American would say that if Harvard Law employed even one Marxist professor, that was one Marxist too many.

There may be some people who would say that patriotism and Marxism are not contradictory. Such people are fools — or worse.

And if anyone wants to compare Sen. Ted Cruz to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, I hope Senator Cruz will thank them for the compliment.

 

 

P.S.: Both Sen. Ted Cruz and M. Stanton Evans will be speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), March 14-16. Every patriotic American can register to attend.





 


Category: Conservatism 101, History, Media Bias, Republicans, Senate, Texas

Rule 5 Sunday: Gold, Girls And Guns

Posted on | February 24, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Be advised that many of the following links are to posts containing pics of women (and the occasional man) in various states of undress, and such pics may not be appreciated by others in the room. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Subject To Change leads off this week with a post that crosses the streams quite nicely, and Bamapundit makes his debut with a somewhat related post on the All-American Cowgirl. Laughing Conservative presents Alyssa Miller, Fishersville Mike is Wishing On TV, and the Eye of Polyphemus is on Jennifer Lawrence this week. Reaganite Republican brings the heat (and the controversy!) with Mexican weather girls, Randy’s Roundtable chips in with Cameron Russell, and Ninety Miles From Tyranny contributes a Hot Pick and Lingerie Ladies. First Street Journal’s ongoing tribute to women in uniform continues with Training.

EBL brings forth the cream of the Rule 5 crop with Diane Lane, Moon Zappa, The Go-Gos, and nominees for Best Actress as well as Best Supporting Actress.

A View From The Beach presents Katherine Heigl as Bride of Chucky, an unusual cancer video, Elvin Bishop’s “Fooled Around And Fell In Love”, ScarJo’s Tats, Taylor Swift sticking it to The Man, cooling a beer in five minutes, classic Rule 5 with Britt Ekland, The Stress Test, and Extreme Tree Hugging.

Soylent Green makes up for lost time with a romp in the Heather, Googler shoutout to Austria, and a cold February morning before kicking off this week’s offerings with Monday Motivationer Vynessa. Afterward. Tuesday Titillation Amanda, Humpday Hawt Daniela, Falconsword Fursday Tamara, Corsetation Revelation, a tribute to the 22,000th commenter, modern art, and Afternooner Susie Owens. Also, Picasso 2.0!

American Power returns after a long absence with Rosie Huntington Whiteley, Heidi Montag, Daisy Watts, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Nicole Lee, Sabine Jemeljanova, and Rule 5 On Demand.

Proof Positive serves up a double scoop of Danica Patrick, Sex in Advertising with Kate Upton, and vintage babe Barbara Hershey. Dustbury brings top Bugatti saleswoman Anita Krizsan and Morena Baccarin. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Caitlin Wynters and the Rule 5 News.

The Daley Gator’s DaleyBabes this week included Dawn Richard, Kerri Taylor, the future Mrs. Gator, Jennifer Hudson, Nurses, Jill Marie Jones, Nana Usami, a gal with an assault weapon, Zhao Wei, Melanie Brown, Asian Babe Madness, Genesis Rodriguez, random women, more randoms, and still more randoms. Also, Ebony Beauties, Mana Sakura, Tika Sumpter, girls to dream about, and a shark rider.


Thanks to everyone for their links! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, March 2.


Category: Rule 5

Does ObamaCare Suck Enough, Or Need It Suck More To Get Us To Single Payer?

Posted on | February 24, 2013 | 31 Comments

by Smitty

Troublesome stuff at the WSJ:

The provision, part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, requires health plans for individuals and small businesses to cover 10 categories of services, including prescription drugs, maternity care and physical rehabilitation. Many of the specifics of what is covered in those categories will be left to states to decide.
Insurers and some business groups have argued that mandating such coverage would make policies too expensive, and they had lobbied the federal government to scale back the scope of what needs to be covered.
But if anything, the final regulations released Wednesday beefed up the requirements for certain services beyond what regulators proposed in November.

It’s not fair to pretend that this pattern is new with the Obama Administration. Instead of elected representatives who are on the hook for their votes doing the governing, Progress means that the tools who stand for election are passing an outline, and un-elected officials are doing the heavy lifting. To say that this urinates all over the spirit of the Constitution is, I think, a reasonable assertion.

Read the whole thing, and understand that the details will only get more grizzly over time.

Over at Reason,

President Obama and other so-called progressives insist that the American people are not overly dependent on government. They also predict dire consequences if the automatic budget “cuts” known as sequestration take place March 1.
Both claims cannot be true. If modest across-the-board “cuts”—mainly cuts in the rate of growth—in military and domestic spending pose a threat to the American people and the U.S. economy, then the country is alarmingly dependent on government.

What’s needed here, both for ObamaCare and the government in general, is a moment where leadership emerges, is honest about how jacked up all this is, and points in a direction of reform. Rick Perry was probably the closest of the 2012 candidates to offering some of that.

Absolutely no good will come from our current course. These homo bureaucratus lemmings are going to feed the cancerous growth of legislation until the whole thing capsizes. And then the clowns who’ve wrought our Cloward-Piven destruction are going to double down with a Single Payer, which is really “Lacking a Single Prayer”.

Don’t let them suppositorize the escargot!

via Dan Riehl and PreciseBlogs

Update: linked at Aewl’s Abode and The Daley Gator.

Category: Uncategorized

FMJRA 2.0: Heavenly City

Posted on | February 23, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ratings-Killer @Soledad_OBrien Fired by Obscure Third-Place Cable News Network

Senator Rand Paul Lays It Down Like Every Republican Should

Sources Tell Washington Post FBI Can’t Find Menendez’s Dominican Hookers

Rule 5 Sunday: Golden Ball & Chain

A Bit Of Doggerel For Governor McDonnell On ObamaCare

Politically Incorrect Questions You Can’t Ask Without Being Called a ‘Hater’

FMJRA 2.0: #WARRIORS

Another Controversial CPAC Scandal!™

The Left Loves Cop-Killers

Boyle on Menendez: ‘Miller Cut His Teeth in Democratic Scandal Management’

Thaddeus McCotter Remembers, If Not Honors, Millard Fillmore

About Paul Ehrlich and ‘The Most Spectacularly Wrong Book Ever Written’

Green: The Color of Stupidity

‘A Particularly Odd Argument’ by the Particularly Odd Bill Schmalfeldt

Connecting the Dots, Telling the Story

‘Beware the Ides of March’: Bill Schmalfeldt Threatens Lee Stranahan?

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.19.13

‘The Kook Who Knew Too Much’: Heroic Fantasy, Paranoia and Barrett Brown

Of Course It’s Not A Single Dime: It’s Trillions If Dimes

That Feeling When The Goal Is Known, But The Means Remain Ambiguous

Kooky Tuesday Continues: Is Social Media Breeding Monsters? Oh, Hell, Yes!

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.20.13

Enforcing the Liberal Media Omerta

Dishonest Bill Schmalfeldt Got Banned from Daily Kos for Anal Rape ‘Satire’

The Great Karl Rove Super PAC Scare

And Now, Helpless Victim Bill Schmalfeldt Heroically Suffers Glorious Martyrdom

Pete Domenici, Republican Sex Machine

Bill Whittle’s Virtual SOTU: Guns

Austin Gates Is a Victim of Abuse, Homophobia, and a Really Bad Haircut

Improv Actress With BFA Degree in Theatre — or Sex Education Expert?

Never Doubt That Kurt Eichenwald Cares Deeply About Gay Kids With Bad Haircuts

It’s Internet Crazy Day: Special Ironic Menendez ‘Healthy Youth’ Edition

Our Homogenous Elite

Top linkers this week:

  1. Lonely Conservative (8)
  2. Rick’s Rants (7)
  3. Daily Pundit (5)

Lots of near misses this week, but regardless, thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, March 1.


Category: FMJRA Award

Hey, Nice Try With the #DemandAVote Spambots #p2! Jacked and Busted! #tcot

Posted on | February 23, 2013 | 40 Comments

Why does the Left hate us so much? Mainly because we’re red-blooded, patriotic, God-fearing Americans, but also because we keep messing up their narratives. The Left (#p2) can’t stand the fact that conservatives (#tcot) are more active on Twitter, so that when they roll out a pre-fabricated Obama-approved #hashtag, it immediately (and hilariously) gets hijacked by us. Just for fun.

OK, so to push their gun-control agenda in Congress, Team Obama started the #DemandAVote hashtag, encouraging the Left to re-Tweet Obama’s message (i.e., demanding that Congress vote on the Democrats’ unconstitutional gun-control legislation).

That hashtag was instantly jacked by #tcot, but then @DefendWallSt discovered that many of the messages in favor of the Obama agenda were from spambots — phony sockpuppet accounts, usually with a blank “egg” avatar, evidently created by some Democrat P.R. operation to give the illusion that this message was more popular than it actually is. In a phrase, Twitter “Astroturf.”

 

So, not only did #tcot jack the hashtag, they busted the bots, and exposed the phoniness of the #p2 “grassroots” effort.

 

Category: Uncategorized
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