No, really: check out the job description.
Email campaigners are responsible for planning, writing, and executing grassroots campaigns to advance the President’s agenda for change.
Back in December when Ben Smith reported on this the first time, the DNC’s response was “Your in-box isn’t going to fill itself.” Which is a very unintentionally revealing statement, given that it essentially concedes that the DNC assumes that there’s no such thing as a spontaneous popular movement. After all, if they don’t exist on the Left – and if they existed, the DNC wouldn’t be advertising for people to create them – then they don’t exist anywhere. This probably explains their more nonsensical statements about Tea Parties: the idea of a legitimate populist, grassroots-driven movement is as alien to them as a reactionless drive would be to a modern physicist.
At any rate, they’ve been advertising for this position for a while; presumably the latest plea for astroturfers just ended up in Andrew Malcolm’s mailbox. While his comment on pay may not be accurate (the first link above does give a salary number of ‘Below $75,000,’ which may be just a search category, and not a hard number or range), this part is dead-on:
…although it’s supposedly all online work, you must be willing to relocate to Washington because, well, that’s the place whose harsh political tone Obama promised to change.
One artificial grassroots campaign at a time.
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"Astroturf for Change"
Erick Brockway (Diary) Friday, April 30th at 9:59AM EDT (link)I like it, it fits ‘em.
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techsan (Diary) Friday, April 30th at 10:07AM EDT (link)Fits nicely!
In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.
Nothing like a top down, controlled "grass roots"
johnt Friday, April 30th at 11:31AM EDT (link)movement, with those factory made, pre-approved, mass distributed, signs & placards, led, coached, monitored, and directed by Party operatives. Nothing like it.
The term will come back into favor now for a little while. Curious though, wasn’t the Coffee party thing supposed to be the counter to those tens of thousands of racist/hater/bitter/ religious/ gun clinging/morons ? What happened?
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
and nothing says grassroots
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, April 30th at 12:47PM EDT (link)like having to move to DC.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
They can't believe in grassroots because they haven't experienced it...
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Friday, April 30th at 12:50PM EDT (link)and just assume their opposition does the same… projection, thy name is lefty…
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There is no such thing as a left wing grassroots movement
voltron Friday, April 30th at 5:30PM EDT (link)Just naming your campaign organization Grassroots Campaigns does not make it a grassroots organization
http://austin.craigslist.org/npo/1711671607.html
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Astroturf
DRayRaven Saturday, May 1st at 7:24AM EDT (link)Up until a few years ago, I used to administer a large fan message board for a NFL team. I had a politics forum there, where a large group of us talked politics away from the main sports forums. There was one individual from the left who I strongly suspected was on the DNC payroll somehow – maybe not to specifically post on our board, but to spread political propaganda and engage in astroturf activities in general.
He consistently spread DNC talking points verbatim. I knew damn well he was getting e-mails from someone telling him what to say – and it was usually fairly easy to defeat his logic. At that point, he always deflected by calling people names. Sound familiar? He was easily the vilest poster on the entire board in any forum. No insult was too offensive or childish to hurl at “right-wing Nazis.”
Eventually, he got so bad I had to ban him. According to him, I violated his right to free speech. I’m sure he’s still out there somewhere calling people Hitler-loving redneck bigots to this day.
It sounds like Allen
conritwng Monday, May 3rd at 8:06AM EDT (link)and he comments regularly on the Hill
I’m either a birther or a moby, and the moderator doesn’t really feel it’s worth his time to determine which; both are insta-bans anyway.
"under $75,000"
bk (Diary) Saturday, May 1st at 7:35AM EDT (link)Maybe it’s that the salary is over $75K, but the deductions for union dues take it under that figure.