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The Obama Machine and his paid trolls to deceive web readers

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From Time this week: [the Obama campaign machine] "doubled down on efforts by the White House to use social media to spread its message." The timing on this quote stuck me as just this morning I was reading a post on the Daily Beast and was instantly on alert. Usually the comments on DB are a mix of left, right and center with a few oddies commenting all day all time all hours. But today, I had a flashback to 2008: the comments were all lefties: a flood of anti-Republican hate had taken over the site in the comments section. Ah...thought I: Obama's paid hacks are out again in force.

Thurs. Evening Blog Surf: No Quarter, Uppity Woman and Heidi Li's Potpourii

First up, Go to No Quarter for an exceptional post that includes this:

Naturally, a woman’s physical attributes and her wardrobe somehow must always figure into the equation – even for a politician. In covering last week’s Senate confirmation hearings for Hillary Clinton, WaPo’s ever bitter Dana Milbank had this to say:
The questioning of Clinton, who sat at the witness table in an olive-brown jacket that brought to mind military fatigues…