ratfucking

Here's one Jed -- frequent Kos poster, Obama supporter -- with a humorous example of Unity in action: Read below the fold...

WKJM burbles happily:

If you missed the two-night Hillary-O'Reilly lovefest extravaganza (as I did, deliberately), we've got an easier-to-digest six-minute highlight reel just for you...

Yeah, with a lead-in like that, I'm sure I can totally trust the highlights to represent the event accurately. No doubt about it. None. Read below the fold...

The man shows how it's done. Surprise, the Kantor film clip video smearing the Hillary campaign was doctored. Nevertheless...

Lie down with dogs... Read below the fold...

Prominent Unity Warrior and Obama's bestest fan evah is all excited LOL: Read below the fold...

In Part I we saw where the term "ratfucking" originated and met two of the most infamous ratfuckers. In this part we will see how ratfucking went from being a small part of GOP political campaigns during the Nixon era to being the centerpiece of campaigns under Bush I.

Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater (February 26, 1951 – March 29, 1991) was an advisor of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. As shown in Part I, He got his start as a ratfucker thanks to Karl Rove. Rove, then the National Chairman of the College Republicans, introduced Atwater to George H.W. Bush who was then the RNC Chairman. Read below the fold...

Did you ever wonder what some of the obnoxious trolls claiming to be Obama supporters are hoping to accomplish by insulting the supporters of Hillary Clinton? Their tactics aren't likely to win converts, and seem designed to make enemies.

Maybe they aren't really Obama supporters after all.

Maybe they are a special breed of GOP trolls called "ratfuckers."

Part I

Ratfucking is an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks. It was first brought to public attention during the Watergate scandal investigation that during the 1972 presidential campaign the Nixon campaign committee maintained a "dirty tricks" unit focused on discrediting Nixon's strongest challengers. Read below the fold...

Just a passing fancy. Even though the NSA does bug everyone including Aunt Molly, and ratfucking and blackmail are Republican signature moves. Read below the fold...

Josh Marshall went and talked to Jerry Nadler, and that's what Nadler says. He's right. Every time Bush reauthorized the warrantless surveillance program, he broke the law (FISA), which is a felony punishable by five years in jail, as Judge Jackson noted in her decision in Bush v. NSA. Read below the fold...

Just asking...

No doubt the story is even worse than WaPo lets on. Nevertheless:

FBI counterterrorism officials continued to use flawed procedures to obtain thousands of U.S. telephone records during a two-year period...

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Josh asks: Why are Rove and Bush seemingly confident about this fall's elections? Many have answered, "Diebold." For you skeptics out there, let me remind you of just who it is we're talking about:

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No point giving AP any hits; Lord Kos does an excellent takedown of John Solomon's story.

But let's remember the nugget Xan dug up on Solomon, when he did his first non-story smear on Harry Reid (boxing tickets):

Go read this piece from 2003 from the Center for Public Integrity and decide for yourself:

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