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{"id":13314,"date":"2009-08-06T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2009-08-06T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T16:17:11","slug":"now-whos-astroturfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13314","title":{"rendered":"Now who&#8217;s astroturfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this email from my local Obama Love Chapter Head Koolaid Dispenser here in Maryland. He wants me to go outside of my district to attend another Congress person&#8217;s town hall meeting;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13315\" title=\"astroturf-left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left.jpg?resize=245%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"astroturf-left\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left.jpg?w=544&amp;ssl=1 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe they just sent it to me because it&#8217;s hard to keep track of who lives where among all of the Obaminions in Maryland.  Except that I got this email right after the first one telling me that &#8220;according to their records&#8221; I live in Maryland&#8217;s eighth district and would I please call my congressman, Chris VanHollen, to give him moral support in this grueling battle against &#8220;scare tactics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13317\" title=\"astroturf-left1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left1.jpg?resize=243%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"astroturf-left1\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left1.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/astroturf-left1.jpg?w=543&amp;ssl=1 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So who is astroturfing now? I&#8217;m guessing my uber-Leftist Congressman isn&#8217;t venturing out into the wilds of Silver Spring among the unwashed masses. Of course, most of his constituents in my neighborhood barely speak English, anyway, so why bother. So I should boost attendence in another district. In fact, I got three emails urging me to attend three different Congressal district town hall meetings &#8211; some across the state from me.<\/p>\n<p>The second email was entitled &#8220;Beating the scare tactics&#8221;.\u00a0 What could be scarier than a President who compiles an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/politics\/state\/stories\/DN-cornynflag_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4bb4d44.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;enemies list&#8221; of people spreading &#8220;fishy&#8221;<\/a> information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this email from my local Obama Love Chapter Head Koolaid Dispenser here in &hellip; <a title=\"Now who&#8217;s astroturfing\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13314\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now who&#8217;s astroturfing<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}