So, Moby is encouraging web users to slander *?

[CatWoman]

Or is he encouraging people to spread the truth?

Punk the prez?

Moby's anti-Bush tricks



One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet.
"No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes."

Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.

"You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.

http://www.nydailynews.com/02-09-2004/news/story/162583p-142554c.html

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Its a great idea...

Prey on the natural stupidity of his voters..

[brainshrub]

2. This is a bad idea on so many levels.

We are supposed to be the good-guys, remember?

[ixion]

3. why make anything up?

Bush provides mountains of fodder for criticism. ;-)

Moby Rocks, by the way. :yourock:

[Dookus]

4. hrmm...

doesn't he "techno", rather than rock? :)

[ixion]

7. LOL

nice one. :-)

Well, look at the album 'Play'. That's more Gospel than Techno.

[Carni]

17. Rock's roots are in gospel and blues

Rock would not exist without both.

[ixion]

22. exactly... so I can say again:

moby rocks! :-)

[lojasmo]

26. Not techno

Moby states he hasn't writen techno music for several years. (rejoinder to MM's "Without Me"

[Carni]

15. No, if you ask me he rocks

I don't know about his plan against bush with the deception...
but the Moby CD I own is probably own of the best I have purchased in the last ten years. Every song is worth hearing.

[funky_bug]

5. ARGH NO!!!!!!!!

Dammit man! Clark had Moore as his big-mouth, and now Kerry's got Moby.

This is SO not good :(

[CatWoman]

6. EVERYBODY

needs a big mouth.

Speaking of Michael Moore -- we owe him a great deal of gratitude. He got the AWOL ball rolling.

[aquart]

8. He's suggesting we behave like Freepers.

How about we leave dirty tricks to the Republicans? I'd like to keep the belief that we are different.

[Champion Jack]

10. Yeah, we are different...take the high road etc etc etc

FUCK that bullshit.
They want to play dirty, let's show 'em how things work.

playing pansy ass is what cost us before

[Carni]

18. Champion Jack

I agree. Taking the high road only gets you lost!

[libview]

25. don't bitch about repub tactics then.

when you behave like one, you can't complain about there behavior.

[NV1962]

9. I feel compelled to officially frown upon such questionable tactics

but meanwhile I'm laughing my @ss off.

What, we're Johnnie Two Goodshoes?

Yarright. After what they did with Max Clelland, Bush deserves to be creamed with an extra serving and a doubleplus good heaping topping.

Good guys? My ass. They need to be burnt so bad that they'll reflexively slap themselves, next time a Rove or whatever comes up with an idea like that, ever again.

I'm all for pulling all stops out. Ha!

But I'm still officially frowning - of course.

[NoPasaran]

11. I am shocked

Shocked I tell you that anyone would spread such inaccurate rumors about the Dear Leader. As I understand it, he didn't drive her, he paid for a taxi.

[TheWebHead]

12. this is what Moby's had to say about this

2/13
in a recent reuters article i was accused by the head of the republican national committee as being a 'kerry operative' trying to spearhead a dirty-tricks campaign against republicans.
i need to say very clearly that nothing could be further from the truth.
i have great respect for senator kerry and i would like nothing more than to see him elected as president in november of 2004. but i do not work for the kerry campaign and i'm not involved in spearheading any dirty-tricks campaign against republicans or the right-wing.
it is worth remembering, though, that the rnc have been behind some vicious 'dirty-tricks' campaigns against democrats(and even republicans, such as senator mccain in south carolina).
and it's also worth remembering that george bush's presidency has been so disastrous for this country that defeating him will only require telling the truth about what he and his administration have done during the last 3 years($1 trillion dollar deficit, 3 million lost jobs, the alienation of all of our allies, lies about reasons for waging war, sending american jobs overseas, billions of dollars in contracts for halliburton in the middle-east, and so on).
but i need to reiterate that although i admire and support senator kerry i do not work for his campaign and i'm not involved in any 'dirty-tricks' campaigns against republicans or the right-wing in america.
thank you,
moby

http://www.moby.com/cms/viewdiary.asp?Diary_ID=1691&ViewType=Current
---
2/10
in today's daily news there was a piece wherein i was supposedly talking about 'dirty tricks' aimed at keeping right-wing voters home on election day.
i just want to say, very clearly, that i don't support the suppression of anyone's constitutionally guaranteed right to vote.
what i meant in my statement was that george w. bush is actually quite weak on a lot of core right-wing issues.
for example:
a-he apparently paid for an ex-girlfriend to have an abortion(this isn't completely verifiable because president bush refuses to open his records. if he opens his records we'll be able to know a lot of things about his prior history.)
b-he has been arrested for drunk driving and cocaine posession(see previous caveat).
c-he went awol from his military service(see previous caveat).
d-he has invited the un to involve itself in america's foreign policy.
e-he has created the largest federal deficit in the history of the united states.
f-he has provided federal money for companies who actively close american factories and plants and send jobs overseas.
g-he has proposed amnesty for illegal aliens.
h-he approved funding for the taliban in early 2001.
i-he allowed a saudi private plane to remove members of the bin-laden family from the u.s. after september 11th when u.s airspace was shut down.
and so on.
i'm just pointing out that there are many core right-wing issues that are at odds with george bush's history and policy initiatives.
that's it.
thanks for listening,
moby

http://www.moby.com/cms/viewdiary.asp?Diary_ID=1680&ViewType=Current

[NV1962]

13. dang! (but McCain is from AZ)

[NoPasaran]

23. But rumors were spread

about McCain during the South Carolina primary in 2000

[BeFree]

14. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

We shouldn't do this, this trashing of the pukes. It's just not right.

We need to wait until September.

[Sensitivity]

16. Just Get Some DU Posters to Do Same Attacks on Corporatist JK to RW boards

as have been posted here for the past 9 months.

Just have to go on all the RW chat rooms and say you're an outraged at Kerry's Corporatist, Free-Trader, Skull & Bones, Blood-Brother connections to Bush, etc etc. and we will be doing fine in Nov.

[corporatewhore]

19. also he beat his wife durring his alcholic days

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Sounds like Moby is borrowing a page

from the freeper handbook.

However, I really don't see what is so wrong about what he supposedly suggested. I mean when did it become a crime to post the truth on internet chatrooms, whether or not the site is pro Bush or anti Bush?

[John_H]

21. Slander my ass. It;s called truthspreading

I'm sure Karl would appreciate cutting his boy the slack he cuts nobody, though.

[LTR]

24. Even better

Just give the Repugs enough rope to hang themselves.

As I've said many times before, the best candidate to beat Bush is Bush himself. He is a flawed candidate that is even driving away his own base. Give him time, and he'll alienate everyone.

Soon, everyone will see through the bullshit.

And, if we were to actually slander him, there certainly wouldn't be a whole lot that would have to be 'made up'.

[Guava Jelly]

27. The bush apologist

Are nasty scumsucking toilet floaters who need to be called out on it.
Dean gave the democrats back their spine.
Clinton said "americans would rather be Strong and wrong then light and right"
Heck isnt fight fire with fire written in the bible.
These right wingers aka retarded nazi koolaide drinking lillylivered urinal breathed brown shirt racist dumbphuck pukes are going rip Kerry a new A-Hole
So why not split Dubya a new one.
Being nicey nicey is going to get us anywhere.
you are either with Bush or against Bush.
Lets define ourselves

[CatWoman]

28. kick

:kick:

[Dr Fate]

29. Looks like Moby just "fooled" the media into printing the Abortion rumor!!

Great play!!!

[Killarney]

30. It's not slander if it's true

Call me evil, but I hope and pray that the Bush abortion rumor turns out to have legs because if there's proof... I'll scream it from the rooftops.

We played nice in 2000. We didn't go with the AWOL story. We didn't go with anything. And we lost. Not fair and square, but the ending's the same.

Not this time.

No more Mr. Nice Democrat.

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