Astroturfing in America and South Korea
I highly recommend that everyone read this article from Greyhawk about the latest efforts by the liberals to undermine and bad mouth the military through a “astroturfing” campaign.
Just to summarize a Navy liberal spy seaman comes out with a website about serving military personnel against the war, which suddenly over 200 newspapers and media outlets around the world pick up on and tout as a “grassroot effort” by US troops to speak out against the war. However, on closer inspection it turns out the seaman is actually a covert agent for Amnesty International planted in the Navy in order to have him come out and claim racism in the Navy and be seen as a “grassroot” upriser within the military against the war.
The “astroturfing” term is used to describe efforts by larger entities to disguise their activities as being “grassroot” efforts through front entities such as this seaman’s webpage in order to give their views added credibility. The tentacles behind this seaman’s “grassroot” efforts extends all the way back to the greatest media power brokers of the liberal establishment. It makes me wonder how many more plants from the anti-war establishment has been put into the military? Notice they picked the Navy to plant this guy in because you know for damn sure they wouldn’t pick the Marines where any plant would likely face combat. So they have this guy nice and safe on a boat speaking out against the military. I think I read something the other day about the Navy looking for naval infantry to man river patrol boats in Iraq; they ought to put this guy on one.
Once again make sure you read the whole posting. It is shocking how far the liberal establishment is willing to go to bash the military. What is even more shocking to me is that the media went and accepted this “grassroot” effort at face value while a milblogger with a full time military career on his own time is left to expose this fraud for what it is. What the heck are journalists payed for anymore if they are not even willing to do simple background checks on people?
Maybe the liberal establishment took some tips from Kim Jong-il. As the recent spy scandal in South Korea has shown, the North Koreans have been running their own “astroturfing” campaign in South Korea for quite some time. The North Koreans have been using their own covert agents to stir up anti-American sentiment in Korea through their own front entities of “grassroot” citizen activist groups. This “astroturfing” campaign has been widely successful in recent years in South Korea. Let’s hope the liberal establishment in America is not as successful in undermining and bashing the military with theirs.
