Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:35:34 PM
Help me figure this out. The whole point of “astroturfing” is to generate fake
grassroots activity, right? That’s where the name comes from: Astroturf
is a type of synthetic grass. Well, how is it “fake” if actual
grassroots conservatives hear Rush Limbaugh say “you should go to your
local townhall meeting on health care” and decide to go? They’re not
being paid or fed or bused in or given pre-made signs. There’s nothing
organized about it, or at least no more so than “objective” journalists
recycling Democratic talking points about mobs by the dozen. Seriously, am I missing something here or have we now reached the point where conservative opinion is per se illegitimate and tantamount to a political dirty trick?