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This piece in the HuffingtonPost should be required reading for all would-be internet mud-slingers.
It attempts make the argument that Sarah Palin supporters are racist, but spends the first two thirds of the article making statement like:
“The web site is funded—and hosted—by the Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund Project, a national right-wing, pro-life Political Action Committee headed up by one Marjorie Dannenfelser, an ardent pro-life advocate.”
How shocking, a pro-life group is headed by someone who is pro-life!
And remember, blogger kids, when you want to cast aspersions on someone, it helps to preface their name with “one Mrs…” rather than just say their name. It makes them look suspect.
It also helps if adjectives like “right-wing” and “pro-life” are assumed by your reader to be sinister adjectives.
Finally, the racism bit comes at the end. Basically some anonymous commenters on the website said some racist shit. Every blog has that. Clusterstock has a smattering of anti-semitic stuff. And I’m sure HuffPo’s thousant-reader-comments-per-story articles have some foul shit. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s called the internet.
Again, if you’re looking for a career as an internet flame-thrower, memorize this article.
