Let’s Have Some Fun Here
By Mitch Berg
I really dislike political black-bag tricks. I have little patience for oppo research, and don’t care much for the kind of political pranks that keep politics geeks giggling into the hours.
If there’s one thing I like less, it’s ofay, lie-clogged false-flag sites. Like “Tom Emmer’s Minnesota”.
I’m not going to link it here; I’m going to ask you to Google “Emmer For Governor” (I’ve helpfully done it for you here).
If you see, as I do, a “sponsored link” to “Tom Emmer’s Minnesota” at the top of the page, do us a favor and click it.
Don’t read it or anything – or read it knowing that every word on the site is bullshirt (as I’m showing, point by point, in my “Chanting Points Memo” project).
But whomever put the site out is paying for every person who clicks on the site.
And every dollar they spend getting people to click in is a dollar they can’t spend on anything useful.
May 7th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
They must of blown their budget already. No sponsored link shows up for me.
May 7th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
This will get you the ad to click on the right side
May 7th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Same here, no sponsored link. Bug I did get a starred link to Freedom Dogs. Wazzup wit dat?
May 7th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
they has a facebook group too.http://www.facebook.com/board.php?uid=2249470023&f=2&start=30&hash=bb547856f6071cdc5d5ce5831f228eda#!/pages/Tom-Emmers-Minnesota/115974615091795?ref=ts
May 7th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
You think that site is bad? [No, I merely think it’s somewhere between “comic relief” and “stupid”- Ed.] http://www.mngop.info has a story on an Emmer staffer promoting slavery on convention night!
[Yep. A defamatory (ethically, not legally) unattributed story citing anonymous sources, from an anonymous writer. Great detective work there. And by the way, about “fitting in” at “Seven?” What are you trying to say? Is there some sort of race/class card you’re playing? – Ed.]
Check it out – http://bit.ly/dtEyoY
[But only if you have a yen for moronic tittering and photoshopping that surpasses only Ken Avidor in dork-fingeredness. Indeed, the whole style of “Nate Hale” and “mngop.info” – the whole peekaboo-false-flag line of bullshit – does read like a Ken Weiner (“Avidor”) production. Hmmm. – Ed.]
[The above was edited by, yo, the editors. Deal with it.]
May 7th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Looks like the site was put together by some progressive jagoff learning HTML in his mommy’s basement.
May 7th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I don’t see the link…even from Bill C’s link.
May 7th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Eh, Ben, that’s actually a professionally designed WordPress theme.
May 7th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Check it out
Good Lord, there should be a minimum age requirement for setting up a website. That looks like 7th grade at best.
May 7th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
This is from the bag of assnozzles formerly known as “Progressive Minnesota”. Think scumbags, only worse.
May 7th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
kevin, please tell me that was sarcasm
May 7th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
I bet Nate doesn’t even know who Crispus Attucks is. And interesting fact that it seems the vast majority of progressive bloggers are to big of pussies to use their real names online. They talk a big game but would rather do it hiding their ID’s. Conservatives do it too, but not nearly as often. Actions do speak much louder than words.
May 7th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
It does read like something that fat wad of grease Weener would do. I’ve read a bunch of his crap, and the approach is always exactly the same.
May 7th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
The sponsored link has gone away, but not the site. It’s pretty lame, but progressives can click on it when their right hands get too tired from…well, you know.
May 7th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
well, you know.
Doing 90 Seconds of Hate in ASL?
May 7th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
The sponsored link was up everywhere for a while, even as an ad on the Emmer for Governor Facebook page (clever actually). But you need to click the ad to the site in order to make them pay for the click. I don’t think a regular goggle search will do.
May 7th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
ASL? There’s only one “hate” sign I know, and it’s single digit.
May 7th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Ben, no that’s not sarcasm. It’s called Sansation and it’s designed by 5-Square