Republican Fesses Up to Blog ID Raid - Democratic Underground

MagickMuffin

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Sat Dec-10-05 06:36 PM
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Republican Fesses Up to Blog ID Raid

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A Republican operative has admitted collecting identity data from a political Web log - a practice the state Republican Party earlier had blamed on Democrats.
This week, the GOP warned state party members that someone was compiling the online identities of visitors to the Web site coloradopols.com. The site is a popular political blog that invites comments from its readers, who can post their thoughts using nicknames.

The warning pointed the finger at Democrats, but e-mail records show that Laura Teal, a Republican, and two acquaintances actually were the ones involved.

"There was never any sort of nefarious plot to bring down any one person," she said. "The hope was to figure out who was behind a great blog."

Andy George, one of Teal's friends, said he took the information she provided and compiled it into a spreadsheet.

"That collected information was for sport," George said. "It was between friends. It wasn't any conspiracy."

Again with the "It isn't a conspiracy" crap!:eyes:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/government/article/0,2777,DRMN_23906_4285597,00.html

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zbdent

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Sat Dec-10-05 06:41 PM
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1. As Rush used to say (about Libs making accusations),

"The accusation is the key."

Once the soundbite is out there, that's what the sheep believe (see "We found WMDs in Iraq!"). In most cases, the "retraction" is not heard. Usually printed down in the tiny print back in the deep pages just after all the "Men Seeking Men" personals . . .

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Selatius

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Sat Dec-10-05 06:42 PM
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2. A conspiracy means two or more people were involved

...yup, looks like a conspiracy to me.

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MagickMuffin

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Sat Dec-10-05 07:31 PM
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3. It's always amazing to me

that, that is one of the first things out of their mouths.

Usually it is

"There's a conspiracy against me!"

"I have not been a party to a conspiracy!"

If they are throwing that phrase around you can pretty much figure it out that there is a conspiracy.

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woodsprite

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Sat Dec-10-05 07:31 PM
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4. It's looking more and more like Hilary was right

when she was talking about a vast conspiracy.

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annabanana

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Sat Dec-10-05 07:34 PM
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5. It isn't "conspiracy", it's "coincidence"

Oh those whacky coincidency theorists...

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MagickMuffin

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Sat Dec-10-05 07:40 PM
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6. I've been wracking my brain

for a quote by Gore Vidal.:banghead:

It's something along the lines of "There is no such thing as a conspiracy, just happy coincidences."

I've been google searches but haven't found the exact quote.

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