Couldn't people like Ann Coulter, Limbaugh, Beck, Buchanan, etc. be considered as TROLLS?

[devilgrrl]

TROLL - In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. In addition to the offending poster, the noun troll can also refer to the provocative message itself, as in "that was an excellent troll you posted". While the term troll and its associated action trolling are primarily associated with Internet discourse, media attention in recent years has made such labels highly subjective, with trolling being used to describe intentionally provocative actions outside of an online context. For example, recent media accounts have used the term troll to describe "a person who defaces internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families."

I think people should start using the term TROLL outside of the internet - because that's really what those people are. Think about it.

[RandomThoughts]

1. I know how that feels.

I been posting for years, and people interrupt it by buying TV time for other reasons, or ignoring what is said, and sometimes not even showing what is said.

They steal beer and travel money, and many experiances, don't budge to them. Although they will repay what is due, at least in my case they will.

[Quantess]

2. Wait... Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck steal your beer money?

:D

[RandomThoughts]

4. years ago people with an ideology of deception and smear did.

Although that is material.

As far as stealing what I post hear, that is just someone trying to get me angry at them. They will pay for that action if they do that, from the decisions of the owner of what I post, I do not claim what I post is all my thoughts, but part of many peoples thoughts. And what are my thoughts I give freely to those that are in need.

if they see it as a way to make money for themselves, and not for what it is for, it only shows what they are.

And if they took what I said, then they would have to read it, and that means they will be held to account for not correcting my situation.


Glenn or others saying things I post is to try to get me angry, it only shows what I posted was read, and that they are now held to account for what they do with it.

And those that ignore what I post are also held to account on principle of willful ignorance, if not done for better reasons.

So either way, I will have beer and travel money, and experiences that are due to me for past smear wrongfully done to me.

[Canuckistanian]

13. ...

You asked for it. :D

[HuckleB]

3. Yes. +1,000,000,000 !!! -eom-

[totodeinhere]

5. So are you saying that trolls are only on the right?

You only mentioned right wingers as potential trolls. And actually I agree with you that Limbaugh and the gang qualify. But if we don't acknowledge that that the left also has it's share of trolls then we are being disingenuous.

[devilgrrl]

8. Name some Left Wing TV, Columnist, Pundit trolls.

eom

[totodeinhere]

12. I would start with someone that I used to have a lot of respect for,

Jane Hamsher.

[foxfeet]

6. I think of them more as orcs. nt

[rrneck]

7. Yes. Cultural trolls. nt

[political_Dem]

9. They are more than that. They are a national menace to all decency.

[Edweird]

10. No. Trolls are on this board, though. There's even a post that meets your definition upthread.

Coulter and Limbaugh are honest about who they are. The trolls pretend to be on your side but attempt to subvert covertly. Some are easier to spot than others.

Trolling is a art.

[lpbk2713]

11. I consider them scum.

Slimy bottom feeders of the worst kind.

[dimbear]

14. One difference, internet trolls are occasionally amusing n/t

[HopeHoops]

15. Well, they certainly all LOOK like trolls.

[mmonk]

16. Well they certainly aren't human.