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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:42 PM
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Dean Trolls Prowl as Numbers Dwindle
Repost, found this on a website, pretty funny:

Message follows:

For Immediate Release
Dean Trolls Prowl as Numbers Dwindle

-Faux News Staff Writer

Filed 8:42pm

In a striking turn of events bloggers from every Democratic campaign have noticed an odd spike in obscenely redundant bloggers leaving messages for other candidates on their communities blogs. As Dean’s numbers go lower across the nation, the internet supporters have taken to the internet striking out at anyone within reach.

Finkletimes a self-professed blogger found on Kuccinich’s community website: "Yeah, they just come in, tell us how much we suck, how many bats were recently broken, or what the last thing Trippi said and then tell us again how we’ll never win and then they leave again. It’s getting a little bit silly." I then asked what Finkletimes did about it.

"Well, what could I do, I took off got some coffee and then talked to some of my co-workers, but I don’t have time for this stuff you know?"

Reggiestiger, a blogger from Wesley Clark’s home page described one interaction with a blogger as "real ugly" by telling this reporter:

"Well it started off civil you know?" I nodded, urging Reggiestiger to continue.

"I had just sent an email message telling my fellow bloggers that we should remain positive. All of the sudden this message popped up from an anonymous blogger." Reggiestiger took a second to calm herself and continued.

"Who said that Clark: ‘sucked, Madonna sucked too much because she is always sucking face,’ and that we all suck and to ‘give up now and submit to wrath of Dean.’ I was kind of taken aback about all of it but tried to remain positive and wrote another message to ignore it. Then the blogger reappeared and said we are all: ‘worthless & weak’ and ‘don’t really have a Democrat candidate but, a wannabe donkey in a Elephant’s bad fitting costume’ and that ‘no one is going is going to pin the tail on him." Reggiestiger, admitted that she "lost it" and said some really "messed up things" about Dean, but wanted me to know that she never goes to Dean’s website to leave messages, that it was "all to defend our candidate." I asked her who she thought the bloggers were:

"Well I guess, they’re angry Deaniacs," Deaniacs is a term used for supporters of Howard Dean. "But" Reggiestiger continued "They could be anyone, who the heck knows, maybe they’re Republican spies trying to get us to hate each other." Pausing the reporter pondered the possibility of a conspiracy breaking open.

A blog as the computer help desk technician of this office informed me, is:

"kinda like writing on the bathroom wall at your local mall….You get to see what other people think in, like a really short period of time. A blogger then is one who writes in a blog."

I assumed that this takes place usually while people are on the toilet.

"so a blog," he continued "becomes a long string of bathroom wall messages." This reporter asked if he knew of many bloggers that went to the bathroom while they left messages for each other, when the help desk technician seemed to look quizzically at the reporter, and said flatly:

"No." and walked out of my office.

This odd spike in these "drive by blog attacks" seem to be caused from the recent diminished poll numbers of Howard Dean which bought Wesley Clark as the Democratic Presidential candidate nationally within the margin of error at 20%. Howard Dean’s 24% still remains in possession of first place nationally, yet his numbers have dipped for the past 3 months.

All calls to anonymous Dean bloggers were not returned.


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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:48 PM
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1. Faux News Staff Writer - seems he likes bathroom activity and conspiracy
He belongs on Rogers Staff!

Very Funny seeing the Faux News Staff Writer mind set and spin!
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:55 PM
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4. Who is
Rogers Staff?
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 04:56 PM
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14. think the reference
is to Roger Aisle's (head honcho at Faux News) - and is missing an apostrophe (as in Roger's staff.)
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:10 PM
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17. Is there anyway
We can just take this as a funny article and not have to believe that there are 500 different messages of evil Rovian/Fox/RNC spies writing them?

Or have we really lost the ability to laugh at ourselves?

And if anyone writes back that: "we are at war my fellow citizen we have no time for humor"

please, spare me.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:49 PM
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2. As a matter of idle curiosity,
how do you call and "anonymous Dean blogger"?
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:54 PM
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3. well...
smoke signals I imagine
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:02 PM
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7. Heh.
:thumbsup:
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Galley_Queen Donating Member (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 02:58 PM
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5. Sounds More Like
freepers to me. Not saying we don't have some stone stupid Dems out there, but the whole tone of the messages screams FREEPERS IN THE HOUSE.

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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:01 PM
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6. What is
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 03:03 PM by ourwinter
Freepers, I admit I'm no genius
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:05 PM
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8. Enjoy:
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:08 PM
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9. WOW
I had no idea - it went that deep.

I just thought it was pretty funny.
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:12 PM
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10. and...
Rogers Staff?
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 03:17 PM
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11. Purely a guess: Roger Ailes
Perhaps papau will chime in later.
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 04:42 PM
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12. Thanks Bemildred
Have a great weekend

So who is the Freeper in this situation?

Roger Ailes?
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 04:44 PM
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13. So...
By it's tone do you mean... the characters displayed in the
fake news?

Or do you mean... the author was a "freeper"

or

are you trying to say I be "freeperesque"?
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 04:58 PM
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15. My take
the supposition is that the item itself is drafted by freepers to make dems look silly/bad (eg for discrediting.)
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ourwinter Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 05:05 PM
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16. I don't know if they make
Dems look silly as much as they make
"Us" bloggers silly, or blogging in
general.
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