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McCain seeks internet trolls to push campaign-approved talking points

It’s like a desperate personal ad.

Help spread the word about John McCain on news and blog sites. Your efforts to help get the message out about John McCain’s policies and plan for the future is one of the most valuable things you can do for this campaign. You know why John McCain should be the next President of the United States and we need you to tell others why.

Select from the numerous web, blog and news sites listed here, go there, and make your opinions supporting John McCain known. Once you’ve commented on a post, video or news story, report the details of your comment by clicking the button below. After your comments are verified, you will be awarded points through the McCain Online Action Center.

I’m sure Markos will appreciate that he’s one of the “featured” target blogs.

Make sure to check out the “Today’s Talking Points” section and feel free to leave your own snarky “McCain Talking Points” in comments.




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1
Mike Says:

John McCain… valuable? It is to laugh…

2
Attila the Appeaser Says:

I tried to get the word out, but the only people I know who might be interested are too old for the Internets.

3
ConcernedCanuck Says:

My cousin in the Midwest, told me last weekend, that there is no way he is voting for Obama because he wants 100 years war with Iraq. I kid you not. There really are people that stupid out there.

4
New_Damage Says:

You know why John McCain should be the next President of the United States and we need you to tell others why.

Really. Well If we know why this is so, why don’t you just tell us the reasons? Why make it a secret-club code word? I mean, it’s not like you’re trying to hide something from the American electorate, right?

Right?

5
me Says:

I always knew the bushbots were getting paid.

6
cv Says:

So what do they get for their points from the McCain Online Action Center?

7
dmhlt Says:

While being “snarky” at a McCain website may appease the “id” in me - it just doesn’t square w/ what I think Obama is trying to accomplish.

We’ve suffered through enough (and been punished by the results) of this childish chicanery courtesy of republican swiftboating (neither one of which deserves capitalization).

I think the American citizenry is saying it’s time to elevate our politics to a level that’s respectful of the electorate. The stakes are just too huge to engage in this kind of juvenile skulduggery.

After all, it’s change we can believe in - and I believe we can change it.

Yes we can!

8
Doggiebobo Says:

ConcernedCanuck @ 3:

My cousin in the Midwest, told me last weekend, that there is no way he is voting for Obama because he wants 100 years war with Iraq. I kid you not. There really are people that stupid out there.

That’s an understatement as to “stupidity”. However, I have a brother in Georgia who
is an ultra conservative, right wing, religious zealot, and he still argues w/me that
man/woman were created by God in the Garden of Eden only 6,000 years ago and that
they co-existed with the dinasours; being saved by Noah and his Ark.

9
Liberty(appeaser)Lover Says:

I bet you won’t get paid if you tell the truth though.

10
Christopher Turkel Says:

John McCain is great for America because:

He’s just like George W. Bush, only older and actually served in combat.

He wants a 100 years of war! I mean, who doesn’t want that? America, fuck ya!

Balanced budget? Those accounting elite liberals!

Global Warming=beach front property in Arizona I can sell.

Okay, McCain Online Action Center, send me my check!

11
Jo Says:

cv @ 6:

So what do they get for their points from the McCain Online Action Center?

The key to the men’t room.

12
Jo Says:

Jo @ 11:

cv @ 6:

So what do they get for their points from the McCain Online Action Center?

The key to the men’t room.

Men’s room. dammit.

13
Loonie Says:

Oh yes indeed, let’s have some simpering, brick-brained halfwit tell us about these here brilliant policies of McCain’s. This should be funny.

14
xoites defends Constitution Says:

McCain seeks internet trolls to push campaign-approved talking points

Want me to name nics?

15
Rico Says:

I agree with #2 Atilla the Appeaser. The typical McCain supporter doesn’t travel the internets so these trolls will only be wasting their time.

They might be better off hooking up with the Republican 527’s. And from what I hear, sales of monkey-body-Obama-face t-shirts in middle-America flea markets are going through the roof. Better the Republicans stick with what they know best….fear, hate and racism.

I never thought I’d say this but I’m glad I’m over 50 and more than half way to being dead.

16
Mikado Says:

Oh, and don’t forget to click on the red box “Web Communicator” link, so you can tell the site administrators about your successful astroturf effort.

17
Liberty(appeaser)Lover Says:

xoites defends Constitution @ 14:

McCain seeks internet trolls to push campaign-approved talking points

Want me to name nics?

absolutely. fire away!

18
joe cantwell Says:

john mcsame is a swell guy…

now, where’s my f*cking toaster?

19
Different Anonymous Says:

Good lord, even their “targets” are uninspired. What, is there like one dude and one dude only in McCain’s camp that knows anything about the interwebs and those are what he came up with?

Note to Grampa Flipflop: Thanks to NAFTA and H1B visas, young techies are cheap. Hire one.

20
miss_kitty Says:

Oh yay. I’m sure my grampa would like to help, but he died in 1965.

21
xoites defends Constitution Says:

Go check out Stella on C&L thread Obama slams McCain in Iowa: “The lobbyists who ruled George Bush’s Washington are now running John McCain’s campaign” if you want to see what to expect.

[Her flame bait comments, along with yours and others totaling 84, so far, have pretty much plotted out my evening for me, x. AND I’M NOT PLEASED-Sitemonitor]

22
xoites defends Constitution Says:

Oops!

[FIFY-Sitemonitor]

23
Mafuskas Says:

Ya know, I just realized today that John Mccain is kinda like Jesus on the cross.

24
Attila the Appeaser Says:

I just got an IM from Maf54 saying that John McCain is hot.

25
steve Says:

Hello, PROPOGANDA!

McCain accepted Elections Funding!
Will these people that his campaign is now supporting be identifying themselves each time they spread their ‘message’ online?

26
Attila the Appeaser Says:

Mafuskas @ 23:

Ya know, I just realized today that John Mccain is kinda like Jesus on the cross.

He is more like Mohammad–a warrior who became a successful business man and politician. But he is like Jesus in the kind of pain he would cause.

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jc Says:

Different Anonymous @ 19:

Note to Grampa Flipflop: Thanks to NAFTA and H1B visas, young techies are cheap. Hire one.

“Oh yes yes yes!” Arbid says, tilting his head back and forth…

28
Batocchio Says:

Well, C&L gets some think tank trolls any time the minimum wage is discussed. Maybe they can all play in the sandbox together.

29
jkb Says:

John McCain, he’s against torture until he’s for it; he hates the religious right, then he adores them; he wants us to spend 100 years in Iraq, or until 2013, whichever gets him votes. John McCain, straight talkin’!

30
casper46 Says:

Think they’re here already also. *sigh*

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xoites defends Constitution Says:

xoites defends Constitution @ 21:

Go check out Stella on C&L thread Obama slams McCain in Iowa: “The lobbyists who ruled George Bush’s Washington are now running John McCain’s campaign” if you want to see what to expect.

[Her flame bait comments, along with yours and others totaling 84, so far, have pretty much plotted out my evening for me, x. AND I’M NOT PLEASED-Sitemonitor]

You thought being a site monitor was going to be an easy job?

You have a problem with me posting here let me know. I can do other things. You should have banned Stella after her third post. Ban me if you like but don’t blame me for your state of mind.

32
eric Says:

I think the whole ‘points’ thing is a scam. If they were smart, they’d make that aspect real: “Collect 100 points and get a coupon good for a free quart of milk!”

Vote for McCain so that we can bring back the typewriter, LPs and black and white TVs. Making Lawrence Welk the number one TV show again is the change McCain has in mind for our country.

That ought to do it. So where do I pick up my paycheck?

34
ashton Says:

Lucky for him there is certainly no shortage of internet trolls.

35
Liberty(appeaser)Lover Says:

Attila the Appeaser @ 24:

I just got an IM from Maf54 saying that John McCain is hot.

I think he’s hot, too. In a Grandpa Munster sort of way. But he can’t be seen in any mirrors. ;(

36
casper46 Says:

Are you kidding? Was Lawrence Welk #1?

37
Yo, E Rocks! Says:

Man, I was going to go comment at Redstate — but none of the posts i found there had more than one comment.

How is that “highly regarded?”

Heck, even when i disagree with an opinion posted here at C&L, I make sure i post a comment. Especially then.

What we need is everybody starting up Myspace blogs that consist of nothing but screen grabs of their artful endeavors at the behest of the McCain campaign.

casper46 @ 36:

Are you kidding? Was Lawrence Welk #1?

I have no idea, but McCain may think it was or should have been.

39
AndrewK Says:

jkb @ 29:

John McCain, he’s against torture until he’s for it; he hates the religious right, then he adores them; he wants us to spend 100 years in Iraq, or until 2013, whichever gets him votes. John McCain, straight talkin’!

John McCain is like rubber, he doesn’t stick to anything, even principle!

Man those talking points are going to have to change pretty fast if they keep up with McCain’s flip flops.

41
ConcernedCanuck Says:

Doggiebobo @ 8:

ConcernedCanuck @ 3:

My cousin in the Midwest, told me last weekend, that there is no way he is voting for Obama because he wants 100 years war with Iraq. I kid you not. There really are people that stupid out there.

That’s an understatement as to “stupidity”. However, I have a brother in Georgia who
is an ultra conservative, right wing, religious zealot, and he still argues w/me that
man/woman were created by God in the Garden of Eden only 6,000 years ago and that
they co-existed with the dinasours; being saved by Noah and his Ark.

Humans are amazing, aren’t they?

42
Friar Tuck Says:

LMFAO!!!

iam sorry but that pic you folks at C&L used is priceless for the topic, and pretty acurate too.
congrats and danke :)

New post is up at my blog, have a look if your bored or just ??
take care folks and thanks again C$L for a kick ass blog and letting alot come here to post comments, without getting our heads chewed off either . DANKE !!!

Best regards and good night,,

43
A.Citizen Says:

dmhlt @ 7:

While being “snarky” at a McCain website may appease the “id” in me - it just doesn’t square w/ what I think Obama is trying to accomplish.

We’ve suffered through enough (and been punished by the results) of this childish chicanery courtesy of republican swiftboating (neither one of which deserves capitalization).

I think the American citizenry is saying it’s time to elevate our politics to a level that’s respectful of the electorate. The stakes are just too huge to engage in this kind of juvenile skulduggery.

After all, it’s change we can believe in - and I believe we can change it.

Yes we can!

Indeed, but will it start with the good Senator, Barky I mean, it’s common knowledge that Obamabots and Hillbots have ravaged our internet community to the point where hysteria is the modus of the day.

Will Senator Barky be the first to say, ‘Yes, in the heat of a partisan battle my lousy campaign staff did this, I now throw them under the bus so that you the chosen my still worship at my shrine of personality.’

I won’t hold be my breath and folks here really ought to grow the fuck up about how politics is done in this country…by every candidate. You saw what happened to the only candidate who dared to actually talk about this did you not. John Edwards was reduced to sniveling for crumbs from a guy who has no more concern for what you want than what the cockroaches in his house do. Long as he gets your vote that is.

So this McSame hysteria reaches yet another absurd height. The guy is: dumb, a Republican, a moral and physical coward, a scum bag thief and a lot of other heinous things and now you want to accuse him of what….

Unsolicited comments in the threads?

Get a life. Get out and find an ActBlue candidate to support and stop jacking off here.

44
Biggus Diggus Says:

Doesn’t the McCain campaign realize that people on blogs can spot a troll immediately?

45
Attila the Appeaser Says:

Doggiebobo @ 8:

However, I have a brother in Georgia who
is an ultra conservative, right wing, religious zealot, and he still argues w/me that
man/woman were created by God in the Garden of Eden only 6,000 years ago and that
they co-existed with the dinasours; being saved by Noah and his Ark.

I wonder what he would make of this?

Chinese archaeologists say they have found more than 2,000 pictographs dating back 7,000 to 8,000 years, about 3,000 years before other texts that are believed to be the origin of modern Chinese characters.

The pictographs are on the rock carvings in Damaidi, at Beishan Mountain in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, which covers about 450 square kilometers with more than 10,000 prehistoric rock carvings.

Paleographers claim that the pictographs may take the history of Chinese characters back to 7,000 to 8,000 years ago.

http://english.people.com.cn/2.....75834.html

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Liberty(appeaser)Lover Says:

Biggus Diggus @ 44:

Doesn’t the McCain campaign realize that people on blogs can spot a troll immediately?

Apparently not. He doesn’t know how the tubes work.

By the way, can Congress pass a law NOW stating that all Presidential emails must go through the office of the President and not the respective email sites of the Democratic or Republican National Committees?

47
ashton Says:

For a real challenge, read the talking points that the campaign suggests and explain what the hell you would say on a blog.

“John McCain will put the national interest ahead of partisanship, he will work with anyone who sincerely wants to get this country moving again.”

Really thought-provoking isn’t it?

48
Attila the Appeaser Says:

Biggus Diggus @ 44:

Doesn’t the McCain campaign realize that people on blogs can spot a troll immediately?

How? By the type of tube they use when loading up the Internet?

Anyone on this site humping for McCain would be sniffed out in a Crooks and Liars minute. It would be a waste of a troll’s time.

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ashton Says:

pissed off patricia @ 49:

Anyone on this site humping for McCain would be sniffed out in a Crooks and Liars minute. It would be a waste of a troll’s time.

Oh please, if I said something like the following you think that you could tell that I was trolling.

“There are serious issues at stake in this election, and serious differences between the candidates. And we will argue about them, as we should. But it should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other.”

It just seems to fit so well into any conversation anywhere. It is quite stealthy, in my opinion.

51
Frankie 7 Says:

>Lawrence Welk

Yeah, that reminds me.

John McSame appeals to young people about the same as LW does in this clip right here:

52
charles hussein Says:

I’m tired of all these insinuations that just because McSenile cannot identify the leaders, the alliances or the predominant faith of the country he sings about bombing is anything but a little forgetfulness tinged with a sense of humour.
The Presidency is the only next logical step for such a senior partner maxed out on the Senate pay scale.
Don’t make him live on Cindy’s money.
Peerage is not earned, it is conceived. That is genuine red, white and blue ancestral home-grown haemoglobin flowing from generations of warriors.
This message approved by Lord Rothschild, OM GBE for a McSenile president.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/..