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Date: | Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:25:09 -0500 |
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"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
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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
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