McCain recruits echo chamber

Imagine having not just one John McCain, but gobs and gobs of him - on every blog!

The McAin't campaign is recruiting volunteer trolls to flood comment sections of blogs with inane posts praising the candidate and his ideas. These trolls are instructed to report the details of their actions back to the campaign - I guess so they could slap each other on the back and cheer each other on. The campaign tells these comment trolls exactly what to say, providing a daily list of talking points.

You know, with the McCain campaign supposedly being the biggest thing since the invention of toilets and all, you'd think it would have more effective ways of getting its message across than doing this babyish shit. But I guess not.

I've known since 1995 that shit like this has been going on from the Right. I think within a few days of getting my first Internet account, I noticed conservatives all seemed to post the same talking points (which they got from talk radio) in unison. A lot of them were RNC operatives. It continues today, often with unintentionally hilarious results. And that's likely the source as such amusing right-wing rants as this:

"I cant [sic] beleive [sic] that a pogrom than [sic] our President [sic] Bush devised to protect us from another 9-11 attack was exposed by the New York Times!"

I believe the person who posted that also posted this gem:

"But heaven forbid a conservative fuck his wife with a hard dick"

I suspect both of those entertaining outbursts from several years ago were from a professional disruptor hired by the Republican National Committee.

McAin't at least attracts slightly higher caliber followers than the clown who apparently posted those remarks. Still it's going to be amusing when they post blog comments that are almost identical to each other and end up having their efforts go to waste.

(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/20/mccain-campaign-comment-t_n_102696.html)