"Our side" uses boilerplate to aid and facilitate letter-writing campaigns. So it's no coincidence, not untoward, and not to be sneered at that the right does the same. They are involved in their causes, no matter how wrongheaded we may think them, and disciplined.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jonathan Julius Dobkin
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:09 PM
  Subject: [CHOMSKY] Astroturf: identical pro-Bush letters to the editor


  Hey folks, here's a fun experiment you can try! Just put the following
  line into Google's search window ("google it" as the kids say nowadays):

  "genuine leadership" "Contrary to the class warfare rhetoric"

  Now see all the virtually identical letters to the editor, in papers
  across the country, supposedly from different people, hailing Bush's
  economic plan for its benefits to the middle class. What an amazing
  coincidence that they all independently wrote the same letter!

  -Jay