Boy it's troll city here today... freepers must be desperate

[apnu]

Trying to scare us w/ bullshit Newsweek polls, and insane posts. All they have left is disruptions and crapping in their pants.

You go girls! I'm shakin' in my boots at your awesome chatwarrior powers!

[susanna]

1. LOL "awesome chatwarrior powers"

Too funny.

[doni_georgia]

2. They're playing the mind games trying to get us to stay home on Tues

yeah, like they can get us to do that. I am sick to fucking death of all the posts by freeping trolls and posts saying "look at what the freepers are saying." The worst ones are when they post the actual subject lines from freeper sites. Just knock it the hell off people. ARGH! I think I am going to go to the grocery store.

[progressivebydesign]

11. Aw.. I think it's funny to read what the Freepers write..

It's like street theatre. Seriously, does anyone here believe that a trip over to the dumbside is going to convert us? THey are the subject of ridicule and laughter. I don't mind a few of those threads every day.. it just reminds me of how backward some people are, and how we have to work harder.

I DO agree that the trolls are out en masse, here. Believe it or not, I've actually started to see some longtime posters (and even a Mod) that may be trolls, themselves. Fun times!!!

Don't get too frustrated. We all do what we can, and DU is just a fraction of the election equation. I come here for fun, and for info. Use the trolls as a spectator sport.. I do. :grouphug:

[doni_georgia]

16. I don't mind reading what they write so long as the subject line isn't

copied over as a subject line here. If people want to post freeper posts, that's fine. I would just prefer them put in the subject: Hey look what the freepers are saying" or something like it.

Kerry in a landslide!

[Dulcinea]

13. Nice try, losers!

I voted early, as did a lot of other people!


TOO LATE!

[DefenseLawyer]

22. I've got news for them

they are targeting the wrong demographic by "advertising" here. Sorry mouthbreathers your wingnut powers are useless against real Democrats and thinking people everywhere.

[harpo]

25. I'll stay home Tuesday...because I already VOTED for Kerry !!!

[Cerridwen]

3. Some masks appear to be dissolving - n/t

[pabloseb]

4. There may be some trolls but

equating being a freeper/troller with posting not-so-good news doesn't make any sense.

[molly]

7. What not so good news?

[pabloseb]

12. it's a general fact

a good many people here think that only good news are allowed.

[unfrigginreal]

18. It's a known fact that some posters prefer to post unfavorable news

What's your track record?

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Very good in that respect

[melody]

9. no, most of the doomsayers are trolls

Don't let the high post count fool you. I've seen so many "sleeper" trolls...these religious maniacs will do anything for their holy leader Bush.

[cubsfan forever]

5. ROFL! n/t

Professor 2

[ciaobox]

6. I got a surprise for freeptards

Kerry by a LANDSLIDE:

[goodboy]

21. I think I may actually shit in my pants if this happens....Inspiring

[AnIndependentTexan]

8. I think they are scared that we are going to win

[apnu]

10. yup... they were trying to crap in the #KerryEdwards channel I hang on on

same nuttiness. What's odd is they seem to take their cue's from us. Flattery? Maybe.

[Zang]

20. haha

it's like a quake teamplay tournament!

[norml]

14. Too bad if they waste their time here,where they will win no votes.

It means less time spent by them working on getting their voters to turn out.

[Chimpanzee]

15. I love the FREEPERS!!!

The best free entertainment value will be on November 3rd! I bet Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show will glean alot of good material from the freeps that day!

[highplainsdem]

17. I'm not a troll or a freeper. As I explained when I posted the link

for that poll, people were asking about it in a few different threads. I checked Newsweek's page, saw it, and posted the link. And immediately got nearly 20 responses, many of them blaming me for the poll, as if I were responsible for it.

Last week I posted a message here about the evidence that Bush was using an earpiece and wireless prompting system in February at the National Prayer Breakfast. There was the photo showing the earpiece, which I'd asked security expert James Atkinson about, after seeing his comments in the "Bush bulge" page at cryptome.org. He told me it looked like an inductive earpiece. I sent the link for the photo to Dave Lindorff (who writes for Salon, among others) and told him what Atkinson said, and he posted the photo on the main page of his website, http://www.thiscantbehappening.net . Later, when there was a cryptome.org page about the Bush earpiece where Atkinson pointed out that some photos posted there (not including the prayer-breakfast photo) that supposedly showed earpieces in fact didn't, I wrote to him about the prayer-breakfast photo and asked him whether he'd changed his mind about that, and mentioned it was now on Dave Lindorff's page. After that, the prayer-breakfast photo was added to the cryptome.org page, and a distinction made between that and the other photos. (I also got some help searching for old threads showing that photo from NewYawker99, whom I want to thank again for that help -- I wanted to make sure it was from the prayer breakfast, and I couldn't find the thread I'd originally seen that mentioned in.)

I then posted a message here about both the photo AND an AP story I'd run across -- http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/05/bush.loudnoise.ap/index.html -- which referred to a very odd disruption of the sound system during the prayer breakfast, a disruption that the WH deputy press secretary had explained away as an interaction between wireless microphones and the sound system. It had created a sound like a burst of machine-gun fire, but there was no reaction from the Secret Service, which I think was very odd -- unless they were used to that sound from a prompting system Bush uses interacting with other sound systems.

Anyway, since Dave Lindorff had told me he wasn't sure what to make of the AP story, I posted a message here with the photo and a link to that story, and asked if anyone knew whether a wireless prompting system could cause that type of sound-system disruption.

And that thread received NO answers. NO ONE here seemed to think that the possibility that an AP story might corroborate a photo showing Bush using an earpiece was worth commenting on.

But if I post the link for a Newsweek poll, I get bashed and accused of wanting to demoralize people.

This is ridiculous, kiddies.

I put a lot of time into checking out the background on that post about Bush's earpiece as much as possible.

And I found that AP story while checking through the DU archives. There were messages posted here about that story, in three separate threads, as well as a thread about the photo showing the earpiece. The photo was discussed several hours later that day. No one here connected the sound disruption to the earpiece. I think they are related. I was hoping someone here might be able to provide some expertise on wireless systems and sound systems.

But I guess replying to that thread just wasn't as much fun as bashing someone for posting the Newsweek poll after there were a few separate threads asking about it...

[norml]

23. Those hunting trolls need to be more careful.

They might shoot a friend.

[highplainsdem]

26. Thank you!

[The River]

19. There Is Nothing They Can Do Now

They have been exposed for what they are.
Sad, impotent, angry little people, full of hate, who can't
think for themselves anymore. They have been lied to and
used by their corporate masters.
Ignore them.

[Generator]

27. Yeah and I've had enough-report them all for what they are-Bush supporters