McCain "gets" the Internet Thing, Awards Website "Points" to Right Wing Commenters
By bluegal Wednesday Jun 25, 2008 2:30pm(image by Driftglass)
McCain's website is offering "points" to folks who cut and paste pro-McCain content onto other blogs.
Wow, what can I get with my points, a cabin upgrade for that cruise with Hugh Hewitt? SO not worth it.
On McCain's "Blog Interact" page, where the candidate's supporters can find recommended blogs of all ideological stripes, the campaign is actually awarding points for trolling.
Help spread the word about John McCain on news and blog sites. Your efforts to help get the message out about John McCain's policies and plan for the future is one of the most valuable things you can do for this campaign. You know why John McCain should be the next President of the United States and we need you to tell others why.
Select from the numerous web, blog and news sites listed here, go there, and make your opinions supporting John McCain known. Once you’ve commented on a post, video or news story, report the details of your comment by clicking the button below. After your comments are verified, you will be awarded points through the McCain Online Action Center.
The site even has "Today's Talking Points" that McCain supporters can cut and paste into the comments sections of liberal blogs.
That's right, computer-savvy Republicans! You can spend your days cutting and pasting comments from McCain.com into Daily Kos for "Online Points." It will be a race to the finish to see if the McCain techs can "verify" your comments before they are troll-rated off the site! So be careful when you visit those "recommended" blogs....
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Help spread the word about John McCain on news and blog sites.
OK: He's old and semi-senile.
"My friends, I've tried to see just what this Crooks and Liars blog is all about...if any of you can cut and paste it for me I'd appreciate it."
Here's one to spread around
McSame '08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRlG_6Bk-8
Someone should act proactively about this.
I suggest writing a bit of code that will go to the McCain website page where the talking points reside, parse and enter the talking points into a database and then screen and flag comments from trolls that are cut-and-paste jobs.
I think it would be hilarious to have the trolls show up only to find that they've been outed because their comments are identified as talking points.
Anyone with the skills interested in doing this?
"My friends, can you explain to me why you would paste something you just cut? Why cut it at all?" Just tell him it Depends, he knows what those are.
"And I was surprised no one was posting, 'I want my g-d iced tea, mofo!' They even used punctuation ..."
only if the golf balls can be personalized with printing the buyer chooses.
You could win fabulous Golf Gear! Tell them about it Johnny --
That's right George, this handsome set of clubs is endorsed by the Republican Country Club Association...
Does it count if I cut/paste pro-McCain content if it includes a scathing rebuttal of why the aforementioned material is a heap of bollocks?
I don't know anyone ...
"Bomb bomb bomb... bomb bomb Iran" ....
who would be dumb enough ...
"Listen you little jerk" ...
to cut and paste any of McCain's ideas here ...
"We all know Iran has been supporting Sunni terrorist organizations." .
Nope. All my work is original material!
ok @ 8:
But remember, it's going to be someone like Obama standing off on the side with the hot date, smirking ...
It seems the rest of the GOP is catching McCain's Upisdown Syndrome.
Not surprising.
During '04 i remember an overabundance of trollage leading up to the election. My first reaction was always to be astounded at the idiocy... Nothing surprising about righties sounded idiotic.
But then it all started sounding the same... all the same desire to completely change the topic and foil anything productive. And you started to wonder.
I honestly think the GOP wouldn't be below hiring people in India to sit in a warehouse somewhere and cut and paste shit into blog comment sections.
That's basically how dumb most of the troll comments I see are.
"Think for yourself! We'll show you how!"
Okay, okay, um, here we go, I'm gonna earn my points so I can get buggered by Hugh Hewitt on the high seas...
There! Have at ye, foul liberal bloggers! I've shown you, especially with my snarky suggestion that you 'read more' at the end! Ha!
Now to don my Bugs-Bunny-in-drag outfit.... "Oh Hu-uuughh!"
Don't do it McCain!!! You'll clog all of the tooooooooooobs!!!
mcfuckhead does not even know how to use a computer
and he wants to be president? the gop is so desparate
to steal this election too, that they WILL resort to
the lowest of measures to steal it.
being a pow is NOT a credential to be president.
I'm waiting for someone over in Hewitt's direction to say that the reason we don't like trolls is because we can't compete in the marketplace of ideas ...
Your laughing now, but it's just another way Republicans are mucking up the system we rely on to get information. These comments and others will fill up and frustrate the political networks, news sites and blogs with garbage.
Just wait till they run Republicans as Democrats in primary elections...Oh, they are already..
http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/06/republicans-run-as-democrats-...
LMAO!!! That pic with the ancient POS is hilarious....the Commodore's cool too.
Absolutely. I mean, I was just thinking... imagining that McCain was the Democratic candidate right now. Can anybody honestly sit here and say that they'd be even a bit surprised if the Republicans started spreading completely unfounded rumors that his cancer had returned and that it was potentially terminal? That would have happened MONTHS ago. And nobody in that scum-bag party would have the morality to stand up and say no to it.
He's surfing the tubes on his IBM Selectric...
John McCain will put the national interest ahead of partisanship, he will work with anyone who sincerely wants to get this country moving again. If John McCain is elected President, the era of the permanent campaign will end. The era of problem solving will begin.
They're either preaching to the choir, or they're preaching to those who already know that McCain is a nut. Go forth little McDummies. Spread the word like ornery Jehovah's Witnesses.
Loonie @ 9:
There you go, I am so glad I wasn't the only one who thought about this. Good idea.
Cut & Paste?? CUT & PASTE!!! My god, how original. I trust that there are instructions on how to “cut & paste” on this website (that I refuse to visit) since, obviously, most of the people who would visit this site would have no idea how to, you know, cut & paste.
The right wing trolls need no help spreading vicious untrue rumors. Just go to Snopes and check under politics. There are no massively circulated slanderous emails circulated about McCain whereas there must be 20 about Obama Left wingers are just way to nice a group of people we need some assholes on this team
(hussien)moondancer @ 20:
Hehehe...I was thinkin of whole rooms of GOP trolls using TRS-80's just typing away in DOS mode....HA!
Click on the recommended sites and it gives a synopsis of the site. Unless you click a liberal site that is!
Since C&L is on the list expect trolls to flow. Unless of course McC's popularity is really low! Maybe posting the webtrends data of where people link from to get here will show sad numbers for McC!
Righty McRedstate @ 21:
I call shenanigans. Get your broomsticks everyone!
"John McCain will put the national interest ahead of partisanship, he will work with anyone who sincerely wants to get this country moving again. If John McCain is elected President, the era of the permanent campaign will end. The era of problem solving will begin."
Where do I get my points? lol
John McCain: As close to dog-spelled-backwards as a country can get!
"There are serious issues at stake in this election, and serious differences between the candidates. And we will argue about them, as we should. But it should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other."
More points Ding ding ding ding ding ding. They're adding up fast.
I just came from the Blog-Interact page and WOW !!!
it pathetic.
lyleleander @ 12:
Oh what do you know, you great julab? The Free Market will self-correct to keep the economy balanced, by Ganesha's ivory tusks! We are not in a warehouse, we are in a perfectly nice call center in Bangalore and John McCain's plan to address gasoline prices will lead to more money in your pocket! By gosh by golly I suggest you keep your liberal thoughts to yourself Barack Obama flip-flopped by opting out of the campaign finance system you great doughy papadum!
John Peterson @ 17:
Glenn Greenwald's blog is the absolute perfect example of that. He does tons of research, tons of work, and basically produces a magazine-quality article ever single day. He has TONS of readers, all of whom are smart and very capable of having incredibly intelligent discussions about whatever the topic of the day is.
And then, right on cue, some fucking moron gets right in the middle of it with some troll quality comment that's completely off-topic, completely inflammatory, and completely idiotic... and right on cue, the entire conversation just completely shifts to addressing whatever Mr. Idiot Troll decided to throw up all over the comments section.
It's like you're sitting in a PhD-level chemistry lecture, and some drunk frat boy comes in and starts going 'I ate POP Rocks last night with soda and my stomach didn't explode!!!!'
And then everybody just sits around and discusses that for an hour.
"ohn McCain is a dumbass."
What, no points?
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 29:
Do you get a toaster for your points? Air miles? Or maybe a couple gallons of free gas.
John "Gupta" Johnson @ 33:
Going for the bonus points?
So, in essence, we've been determined to be enemies of the state and must be
indoctrinatedenlightened as to that which is pure andAmericanfascist as the day is long.Gretchen @ 36:
I'm going for the free bible.
I shouldn't have said that. Sorry!
Okay, I'm going to start earnin' them points! Here we go:
Ohhh yeah, that's one point already! Here's another:
Ding! I'm really rackin' 'em up. Check it:
Of course, I guess I could just post sections together in whichever order I desired. Let's see...
All those points, just from the front page! Whad-I-win, John? Whad-I-win?
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 39:
You want the biggie-fries with that bible?
lyleleander @ 34:
I'd always likened that 'creating new realities' quote to 'we're going to have a beer bash, get blotto and puke all over the room, and while you're cleaning that up, we'll go to another party, and puke all over that ...'
It reminds me of the joke about the Indian who enters a diner. He's got a bison on a rope in one hand, and a shotgun in the other.
"Coffee," he says. The waitress brings him a cup of coffee. He drinks it down, promptly takes the shotgun and shoots the bison, then walks out.
Next day, he's back. He has another bison on a rope.
"Coffee," he says.
The manager comes up and says, "Hey, whoa, wait a minute - it took us all day to clean up after your little act yesterday! What do you think you're doing?"
"Me taking class in management. Show up, drink coffee, shoot the bull, leave mess for others to clean up."
Please vote for Johnny McCain. He's almost as smart as George W. Bush, but he's older and more feeble minded. He takes Viagara just like Rush. McCain's wife (Mommy) will give me a free case of light beer if I win enough points.
PRETTY PLEASE???
Can we come up with some sort of slang for labeling these point-earners for the trolls they are? Maybe calling them a McTroll or something, as in "Ignore the cut-and-paste McTroll"? But come up with something better than McTroll. :)
McGrampa is conceding that his reich-wing cultist followers are incapable of original thought. Thank you.
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 39:
No offense, dude. Go for it!
I first posted about this back on May 22nd: Beware of the McTrolls and as you can see on the post, HE HASN'T CHANGED HIS TALKING POINTS ONCE IN OVER A MONTH!!! And those are "daily" talking points too, mind you. This doesn't show that the McCampaign is going to be able to infiltrate and compromise democratic discourse, it shows that he and his campaign are clueless when it comes to working technology. How hard would it be to change those talking points? Maybe if Sen. McCain knew how to work a computer he'd be more aware of the importance of social networking and the internet in general.
Bananaphone @ 44:
"Point People"
Gretchen @ 46:
Cool. I hope you are smiling. And go earn those points.
Bananaphone @ 44:
McPasters?
Cut-and-run Trolls?
Would having trolls regurgitate Talking Points mean we've been TP'd?
Isn't this entire blog post a cut and paste itself, from about two months back or so???
princess @ 51:
Princess, shouldn't you be running over to Drudge and copying and paste some off-topic article, Princess?
Princess, what did you shoot on the back 9 today, Princess?
I'm wondering when the trolls will figure out the points are actually worthless, and that it's just for positive psychological effect ...
Shadowgm Hussein @ 53:
They'll get to brag to their fellow 23%ers about their McGramapoints for their ability to C&P.
♠Bangkok Bob♥ @ 41:
I wants my Jeeeebus supersized!
sciguy @ 4:
The temptation to start trolling for McCain, but inserting gradually more and more violently racist rhetoric, is strong. I could get some McCain points with a particular ID, then start ranting hysterically Charles Manson-style. I mean, he's basically begging to be punk'd. What a moron. Why not ask his followers (if there actually are any) to advocate passionately on their own behalf, rather than be a bunch of stupid blogwhores?
Oh, that's right. Because the McCain campaign is as sterile as the surface of the Moon.
Oo! Oo! What do I get if I point out what an incompetent, flip-flopping, computer illiterate, lying schmuck he is? He'll love my post on how his energy policy and his campaign is a delusion.
Bananaphone @ 44:
The only problem with the McGrampoints C&P program is that the talking points for one day will differ from the next. When a reich-wing troll C&Ps outdated talking points, will they lose their McGrampoints?
How about we rickroll the fawning sycophants repeating talking points for Mr. 'Aware of Every Internet Tradition'?
Maybe if you get enough points, they'll be good for a get-out-of-death-camp card after the despots have consolidated their power just a little bit more.
After thinking it over i have come up with a point system for Crooks and Liars:
500 Points-You are allowed one post in all CAPS.
5,000 Points-One Flame Bait post as long as it is directed at troll.
50,000 Points-Ban the troll over your choice.
Points are awarded as follows:
Post in your own words on a right wing site why noone should vote for McCain
One Point
Convince right wnger to not vote for McCain
Two Points
Convince right winger to vote for a Democrat (in any election)
Three Points
Convince any Republican to change parties
Five Points
I look forward to gaining enough points to buy a John McCain 08 baseball hat, which will protect me from those other people sporting Barack Obama baseball bats.
Paul @ 61:
[cutandpaste]There are no such things as death camps. This is a liberal myth misrepresenting the emergency relocation centers built by Halliburton/KBR and the generosity of Dr. James Dobson in offering spiritual counseling to the people so disadvantaged. *bing*15 points *bing* [/cutandpaste]
Shadowgm Hussein @ 53:
What??? Worthless? Psychological effect???? "Feel good" points?? I can't trade them in for a gas guzzling moon rocket of a truck? Well then, Fuck John McLying sack of shit!
Sean Hannity is a great American! *20 pts*
There were WMD in Iraq, Saddam moved them!! *90 pts*
Faux is indeed fair and balanced!!! *160 pts*
McGrampa is a hero!!!!!!! *20000 pts*
Maybe they are just trying to collect information on all the dumbasses so they know where to get a hold of them so that they will be easier to fleece?
That's not a load of doodie in McBush's Depends....it's Patriot Poo! 10,000 pts
Okay, now let's see if they filter the phrase "crazy old fart."
On the
Volunteer Action Center today's "Today's Action Item" is... (get ready, hold your breath) "RECRUIT 5 FRIENDS"
"Help John McCain by recruiting your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to become McCain Team Members."
I spewed orange juice all over my screen when I saw it so beware.
Apparently, the bar is set very low.
what the hell is a commenter? It is a word that does not exist. jesus why don't people who type on blogs
like that a remedial English class.
miss_kitty @ 71:
Just where's the bar set here, MK? An exact repeat blog post from two months ago gets the same commenters making the same comments. But hey, it's all good.
When some folks see that the grass is greener on the other side, they put down AstroTurf on theirs.
princess @ 73:
Just to clear things up for you, princess, C&L is not running for president and has not created a C&P points program, princess.
Princess, once again, you have failed to make an analogy, once again, princess. Good job making a fool of yourself, princess.
But, we know you are embarrassed, princess, that you support a shell-of-a-man that supports a C&P points program. You hissy fit is expected, princess.
I can't open his stupid website. Anyone else having problems?
VietVet67 @ 76:
Maybe it is too busy. Everybody trying to sign up for "points".
Isn't it COPY and paste? You can't CUT something from a Web page. Geeeez. But hey, what do I get for my points? What if I make a typo like, "John McCain will put partisan interest ahead of the national interest,, he will work with any Neocon who sincerely wants to get this country moving again. If John McCain is elected President, the era of the permanent campaign will continue. The era of problem solving will be relegated to the back burner."
Such a joke is McSame. BTW, there's rumors he cut deals with his captors while he was a POW in exchange for more favorable treatment. And there's documentation that he was an ace flyer -- an ace at crashing and destroying planes, that is... 5 of them at last count. So this is a hero?
Damn, too bad I don't have a spare $3M to buy out every suite on that cruise, just so Hughy would have to sail all by himself.
Ennealogic @ 78:
His picture is pasted is scrapbooks of "Friends of the VietCong" around the country...
Wow, what can I get with my points
You could get a ride on the straight talk express.... or maybe invited to a BBQ.....
McPoints! CHA-CHING!
Roket @ 24:
copypasta huh. awesome. sounds like a perfect job for a 4chan counterattack ;)
Hello everyone at Crooks and Liars. I want you all to support John McCain for president! He is an independent maverick who has YOUR best interests at heart, so vote McCain now!
(Heh. I kid, I kid)
Oh this will only end in tears. Of frustration for the trolls. Countdown to total referrer blocking.
John McCain is old, hes so old... but hes the kinda change we need now cause... well, cause all those things Bush said he was gonna do and didnt, John will do those things I think.. His campaign isn't desperate, they are just a little too mature to figure out these internets and tubes so they need trolls like me to go out and spread the word about... well, about grandpa I guess. Anyway, McCain is a war hero and even though his wife is a beer baron and he is the son of an admiral turned 30 year senator, hes the non-elitist candidate... at least thats what he says. So I hope all this kissing up gets me madd points on McCains website cause they got this stuffed McCain doll (complete with action ponch and terrorist repellent) that I can cash my points in for, its just gonna take 9,999 more comments like this one till I can get it. Vote McCain '08!! cause what we really need is 4 more years (at least) of the NeoCon agenda that has worked out so well for everyone!
What The Holy Heck @ 85:
is a reeferrer one who advocates the usage of and actively participates in reefers and reefering? cuz I don't think that applies to any of McCain's supporters.
The only way they can win...ha ha ha! It's just too stupid! I can recognize those talking points easily, and even Chris Matthews is telling these morons that he gets the memo each day too, yet they still stammer on. Sad bunch of clowns.
haha I submitted a comment and got forwarded to another page where you can upload your MS Outlook contact list to his servers.
HELP MCCAIN SPAM FOR FREEDOM!
http://www.johnmccain.com/ActionCenter/RecruitFriends/RecruitFriends.aspx
omfg this is SO going onto 4chan right now... - I'm pretty sure pedobear is a republican anyway...
Is that a Kaypro he's workin' there? Dang. I haven't seen one of those in decades...
John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life...
I'll take the dashboard hula girl.
Just because McSame uses or knows about computers barely stronger than those that got to the moon and back, doesn't make him technically literate for today's computer technology standards. He'd probably corrupt an up-to-date computer desktop or laptop the instant he touches it! He just doesn't understand computers like Bushie. And, he's probably never heard of the different aspects and revolutions of the Internet. So, would he think a computer is a typewriter in front of a television? - Even those are roughly 20-30 years obsolete!
Roket @ 24:
Snort. That made me think of slide 6 of this cartoon: http://www.neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2003/09/29/5458.aspx
{ Deleted, That one was lame ysbaddaden. Site Monitor}
How many points if you call your wife a trollop and a...?
This just in from mccain central.
CPS (Chimp Protective Services) called to his home
He was caught spanking his monkey.
Yea... well.. what about him being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and what they are planning for us... up ahead. Something about the North American Community so that all three nations: USA, Mexico and Canada lose their constitutions and the U.N. has a say in everything that goes on instead of our actual governments, and even if our local governments do come up with what the people want the UN can override that in a hot second. Say goodbye to our dollar and our rights everyone. Already 7 out of the 10 amendments are gone...
They just passed the Homegrown Terrorism Act HR 1955: all Americans going against the elite agenda are "labeled" terrorists and can be sent to foreign jails/camps without trial. In some states the state police actually has a handbook saying that if an American citizen is saying they are practicing their "rights" they can be cuffed just for saying that they're practicing their "first amendment right". There are "free speech" zones... Can't everyone see that this is a new kind of fascism. The other day I tried to translate the difference between fascist and neo conservative and there was no difference, neo conservatism is NEW FASCISM. All fascism is big corporations in bed with big government having control over every aspect of our lives, our health, our food, our home. They can take everything except my soul. Money is the root of all evil. I say this is to blame from the Industrial Revolution, we used to barter and trade goods, everyone had a skill or service they can provide in exchange for some other good or service.
OMG!!! Has the old fart's campaign actually created something original -- copy & paste, blog comment spam?!?!?
In unrelated news, McCain found out how to look at pr0n on the net. Something any under 18 year old kid without a responsible parent can show him.
If the Republicans don't have enough imagination to come up with their own comments (ones not on McCain.com), then I'm not sure they would be able to figure out the whole copy-and-paste thing.
If I was a Republican, I would find this very insulting.
Actually in that fixed photo, mccain looks almost as hard-bodied as Putin.
So ladies, waddya think?
Captain Obama’s Bitter Half Husein Kangaroo @ 39:
Y'know, most motels give away free bibles. They're in the drawer under the phone.
The Commodore may keep up with McCain, but McCain can't keep up with the Commodore (much less the Internet).
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