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Right-wing website RedState.com has offered a comprehensive plan for its followers to infiltrate left-wing sites by pretending to be progressives to hurt the Democratic Party.

The list of directions created by the site are below.

First, infiltratethe site. For this, you will have to avoid creating screen names like “GoPalinGo” or “Heartlandredstater.” Also, some websites may actually have you wait a week before you are allowed to comment or blog. Perhaps, they are investigating the e-mail address you give them against whether it is used for a conservative website. Be sure to avoid that tendency; if you use, for example, aol.com screen name for RedState, make sure you use a yahoo e-mail address for Dailykos, or whatever. Once you are there, the second part of the strategy is to gain their trust. For this, you cannot be too overtly gung-ho conservative in your outlook. Instead, you sort of have to be the voice of a moderate liberal. This will take a lot of acting skill, but it could be done. For example, over at ThinkProgress, they had an article about how the folks in Alabama got what they deserved with the recent spate of tornadoes because their legislators did not believe in global warming. It took all my energies not to reach through the Internet and strangle these kooks, but I responded, “Well, that might be going a little too far…” Along the way, I gained the trust of certain posters on that thread.

The third step is to move the conversation in the direction you desire. By doing this, you can then form the debate in terms you can win. For example, in the above story, although I said they were going too far in their comments, I moved the conversation somewhat by questioning whether the folks in Alabama would accept Federal funds to rebuild their lives. In other words, the subject was changed from a debate on global warming to one of fiscal responsibility. Once there, you can then highjack the thread. In effect, you have changed the subject and tenor or the conversation and the writer of the original post has lost their ability to moderate the conversation and that creates a free-for-all that gets the conversation far off the original mark. Of course, you will be accused of “threadjacking” or, worse (drumrolls please…) being a “troll.” To this I say, of course you are a troll and you should be proud of it. Embrace your status of being a “troll” on the liberal website and carry it through to its logical conclusion. To put it bluntly: Embrace your inner troll. If they realize what is happening and accuse you of being a troll or such, or if they try to block you and your opinions, remind them of their support for the Fairness Doctrine and their reasoning for it- to ensure that both sides have a say- should allow you to have your say. Force them to practice what they preach.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    With all these Left Wing trolls in here and other sites, this move will do nothing more than level the playing field!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/germandog21/ germandog21

    HELL, THEY ALREADY HAVE ALL THAT RIGHT HERE. THERE IS @ _A_ AND HIS SEVERAL ALIASES…..THERE IS ACEMAN….IT SHOWS A PICTURE OF A BLACK GUY BUT REALLY IT IS A WHITE REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE GUY….TROLLING. THERE ARE OTHERS ALSO.

  • http://twitter.com/mssueme Marie Bano

    They are already doing it you will notice on sites like the Huffington Post, Black voices, facebook and even at Newsone.You can tell who they are they either try and sound very ghetto and do not have the lingo right or they give long speeches that are always anti Obama, anti black ad very crude and racist.Be on your guard.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/freelancepimp/ freelancepimp

    I was thinking the same thing.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Obama has ran the national debt up 3x the amount in four years, than Bush did in 8. More jobs have left the country now than ever. Record foreclosures, record food stamp, record unemployment. Increase in the wealth gap. Extreme tax breaks for corporations, engaged in 7 wars and still hasn’t explained why the hell he and his DOJ ran 30K unregistered guns into Mexico some of which have killed American and Mexican law enforcement agents, hasn’t appointed ONE black man to any significant post outside of the dude who carries around his bags and his water bottle when they are out balling, has the entire world hating America just as much as when Bush ran this country, has killed more innocent AFRICAN women and children than Bush would ever dream of doing.

    No one could EVER come close to doing damage to his legacy better than he has done himself….lol

    The funny thing is, whether he is re-elected or not, this country and the enormous DEBT he CONTINUES to put the entire country under, will continue on, so you can go stand on line for 6 hours and vote for who ever the hell you want…..clown.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Are people reallly getting that desperate now days? All of this sh!t is so fukkin childish. American politics are for the birds.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/germandog21/ germandog21

    EXACTLY

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/germandog21/ germandog21

    WHO ON EARTH TAUGHT YOU A GREAT RECESSION AND OUT OF CONTROL NATIONAL DEBT CAN BE SUDDENLY HALTED ONCE IT IS IN MOTION? OBAMA DIDN’T INCREASE ANY DEBT…THAT IS THE SORT OF LYING YOU TROLLS ARE HERE TO DO. I WOULD DEFEND OF EXPLAIN BECAUSE I KNOW YOU KNOW BETTER. AND YOU GIVE OBAMA CREDIT FOR WARS HE DID NOT START BUT WERE HANDED TO HIM. AND HE STOPPED 1 OF THEM…OR DIDN’T YOU HEAR? OBAMA BROUGHT HOME 100,000 TROOPS FROM IRAQ TO END THE COMBAT PHASE. IT TOOK HIM OVER 18 MONTHS TO STOP BUSH’S WAR THAT TRASHED THE NATIONAL DEBT…..SO YOU ADD 18 MONTHS AT A BILLION PER MONTH TO THE DEBT/ PLUS INTEREST ON THE WHOLE DAMN WAR, TO THE DEBT. PLUS STIMULUS EFFORTS, PLUS KEEPING VITAL SERVICES GOING, AND THERE IS YOU DEBT.

    OBAMA HAS APPOINTED PLENTY OF BLACKS TO IMPORTANT POSITIONS.

    OBAMA HAS EITHER PASSED LAWS, MADE IMPROVEMENTS, OR OTHERWISE IMPLEMENTED OVER 120 BENEFICIAL ACTIONS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, INCLUDING BLACK PEOPLE.

    HE EVEN HELPED THE FARMERS TO FINALLY GET PAID AFTER DECADES OF DISCRIMINATION.

    BUT OBAMA’S RECORDS ISN’T AT ISSUE….IT IS YOUR RAGGEDY ASS, HERE TROLLING. SINCE YOU AND FREELANCEPIMP AGREE SO MUCH…WHY DON’T YOU WORK FOR HIM, WHILE YOU PROSTITUTE FOR YOUR RICH WHITE HOMOSEXUALS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Aceman52/ Aceman52

    Its Aceman52, puppy. Get it right. Anyway, I dont know why this is news. The left has been doing this for years. But now that conservatives are employing this tactic, its some big thing. The right will not have to try too hard because many of the hardcore leftists that were singing the praises of the elected messiah are running from him in droves. Obama is killing his presidency with his ridiculous policies. Wake up fool. Obama and his democrat zombies are headed for a massive defeat come 2012

  • Anonymous

    Rip this comment off , too, Newsone/Grio; of no consequence!! “I’ll be baach”!Republicans used the wrong movie as a rallying cry for their principles. There are least two other movies that would have been just as suitable in depicting their “——- up” ideology! This individual enjoyed both movies immensely, especially the ending of both! It would be one’s fondest wish in “reality” for the Republican/Tea trolls/gargoyles!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    He didn’t add to the debt???? Is that a joke or are you really that empty headed??????? Not sure if you have heard but they have been debating the raising of the DEBTceiling for the past two weeks now. Why would you need to raise a debt ceiling UNLESS YOU HAVE ADDED TO THE debt? But even if that little piece of information was too much for your pea brain to handle, how on earth do you think it’s possible to run a 1.6T deficit each of your 3 years in office and not have that add to the debt????

    End the combat phase??? Yeah, so what they do, they take they leave 50K soldiers and 100K contractors and change their category from Combat to peace keeping force or a support force….get a damn clue. Also, Bush didn’t hand him a war in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan or Columbia.

    One thing is for sure, you are too damned empty headed to be a troll. I’m sure the Democrats will hire smarter people than you!

  • White Troll

    This article is a pack of lies.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    ANd there are TROLLS on HERE, too. IJS…….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MDHOTCOFFEE/ MDHOTCOFFEE

    AND DON’T FORGET THE RACIST TROLLS THAT TRY TO TURN BLACK MEN AND WOMEN AGAINST EACH OTHER.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark_Wisdom101/ Dark_Wisdom101

    Lol his post is sad but funny! I about lost it when I read,

    “NOBODY IN OBAMA’S ADMINISTRATION HAS FREE LANCE SPENT A NICKEL.”

    LMFAO!!! What a fool.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AboveAveragex10/ AboveAveragex10

    They have completely taken over HuffingtonPost, especially since it was purchased by AOL and are in the process of taking over many black blogs, including this one. Too many “haters – posin” on this site too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark_Wisdom101/ Dark_Wisdom101

    You are correct. I remember from the 2010 elections the story of the plant in the Tea Party who was carrying racist signs who they later video taped at a Dem rally where he was confronted and exposed. Yep old school.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AboveAveragex10/ AboveAveragex10

    So true.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark_Wisdom101/ Dark_Wisdom101

    So if you speak against Obama..you are white? No black people could have a legitimate gripe against Obama? That’s pretty extreme.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark_Wisdom101/ Dark_Wisdom101

    Wow.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Can you imagine someone who considers himself an informed voter making such an asinine comment about the debt? He is a pure cheerleader whose FULLY gratified by the fact that there is a Royal Black Family in this world that he can ‘finally’ be proud of.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Actually, the dead giveaway for me is the johnny come lately NewsOne posters. The ones you never really see posting comments to any other blogs except the Pro Obama ones. But hey, we could both be wrong!

  • http://www.facebook.com/hevansspeedy Speedy Evans

    redstate bluestate man if there was a black state thy would realy loss it.nah they would bomb the hell out of it .like blk wall st.ya i got a gripe with obama he keeps puting up with all the bulls**t around him.an was there ever atime america was’nt at war with someone.we come in peace we leave u in pieces.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BakkByPopularDemand/ BakkByPopularDemand

    Don’t forget the never before seen names posting to the homosexual articles and the IR joints….

    I think if the redstates are doing this to ‘hurt’ the democrats, then the dems/liberals are damn sure doing it to….I’ve never so much homo-liberal-progressive love as I have on this site….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BakkByPopularDemand/ BakkByPopularDemand

    Lol…yeah that would be the tag….You can’t possibly be black and find issue with Obama….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BakkByPopularDemand/ BakkByPopularDemand

    “OBAMA BROUGHT HOME 100,000 TROOPS FROM IRAQ TO END THE COMBAT PHASE. ”

    But he has sent a total of 221,00 to afghan and libya…

    seems like thats a classic case of “Let me shake your hand while I punch you square in the jaw because I caught you off guard with the ‘nice gesture’”…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Listen, anyone using HALF their brain (even if it’s the weak half) knows that there isn’t one DIRTY trick in existence that both parties don’t employ. Case in point. Rick Perry is possibly about to announce his run for President. Well this dude once served as a campaign manager for Al Gore. There is no such thing as Democrat politics and Republican politics, it’s just politics!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    No…this one and many others are taking it a step further. If you disagree with Obama you’re not only white, but you’re a troll as well….lol…The ObobbleHead crew are starting to really show their nervousness. About 6-9 months ago, they thought re-election was automatic. Now they are acting and reacting as if that may be in serious jeopardy!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    No you are,it’s your nature.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BakkByPopularDemand/ BakkByPopularDemand

    “There is no such thing as Democrat politics and Republican politics, it’s just politics!”

    Good point…I hope Dr West and Smiley include that in the tour…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    YOU’RE THE TROLL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, WHITE BOY!

  • Anonymous

    I’ve been reading your posts and I’ve got the 411 on you. In my opinion, YOU are a MOLE and your objective is to be a VIRUS. You through out comments to slowly sway our opinions and beliefs. The Million dollar question is, who do represent?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shoutout13/ Shoutout13

    said the lying racist infiltrator.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/twobearsMA/ twobearsMA

    what’s new about that ???

  • http://www.facebook.com/mikegatliff Peter Gatliff

    What more do you expect from scared fascist. LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/mlysle1 Mark Lysle

    This is the modus operandi of people who are afraid to debate honestly and intelligently. Do you think that the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine was a free speech issue? No, conservatives got along just fine with the Doctrine in place. They just wanted to remove the rules so they could win at any cost.

    reason number one why the Fairness Doctrine has to be re-instated. So it’ll “silence conservative talk radio”. Tough crapola. You refuse to play by your own rules. You refuse to let your political opponents debate without cutting them off in mid-sentence or yelling at them to “shut up, liberal sc**!’ or some moronic, middle-school grade commentary. Since you refuse to play fair, we need to FORCE YOUR SIDE TO PLAY FAIR.

    And nobody really gives two rat’s arses about your sub-human amoebic-level trolls. Nobody takes little children seriously.

  • http://www.facebook.com/I.george.me George M Holstein

    Seriously? They might be in greater danger of involving themselves in a discussion which opens their minds. Sounds good to me!

  • Anonymous

    They don’t do this already?

    Whatever: target rich environment for me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Dale-Hebert/536761172 Adam Dale Hebert

    I love how they just assume all liberals are for the Fairness Doctrine and that it can be used as a weapon against them. Typical brain dead conservative idiots. Even if we did all support it, the Fairness Doctrine applied only to the airwaves of the people. Not private avenues of communication.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=777610506 Jeffrey Schein

    Looks like we found one of the trolls.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WAVZUNDOQ23OIUHMHOQ5PQW7WM glorrie

    Idiots. Like we haven’t become adept at identifying these jerks and blocking them outright, no threats, just lowering the boom on them and poof, they are gone. They must think we are as dumb as they are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=777610506 Jeffrey Schein

    Looks like we found another troll

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Laurel-Sayler/100000556751385 Laurel Sayler

    I think that in this tough economic time we should take advantage of sites that pay trolls and become one. Heck, we can make up a fake screen name and e-mail address too and pretend to be rethugs and take their money. Money to us means less to real trolls and we can argue with ourselves and make our fake trolls lose the war of words.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Walters/100001983110400 David Walters

    Hatred MUST be stopped. We HAVE succeeded in the past in rejecting Hate; BUT, we must always be on our toes!

  • http://ninure.tk Ninure

    We need to follow their example, or not?

    Jesus did say, “Be wise as serpents and as gentle as doves”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YNVT63FM2IZ3NROROWNW3IREWY George Pìmpington

    They’re a little late, by like 10 years, to the game. We’ve been doing the same thing to them since 2000. It’s really easy to spot them anyway because they can’t seem to resist using words like jesus, guns, and religion.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Audrey-Fisher/1430584380 Audrey Fisher

    Now the funny part of this gambit, is that in order to threadjack a discussion, the blogger has to remain engaged and have a POV. Then comes the really hard part: discussing facts rather than just ranting.
    What I have seen is that the blogger’s who follow EE suggestion is that when there is a thread about “X”, they have a tendency to have a singular and irrelevant “blame response”, much like a Pavlovian response. They can’t help it! That is how they have been programmed.

  • http://twitter.com/zucchinisummer TheBargainBabe

    So they count on using deception in order to win. Nice. Real “family values” party, aren’t they?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Laurie-Nusbaum-Miller/1442268970 Laurie Nusbaum Miller

    Wow. Just pontification of how to spread more hatred & intolerance. This is why citizens of the USA have become more ANGRY. No wonder anti-depressants have become the number one prescribed drug in the United States. It is one thing to be passionate about your feelings, and its another thing to be just downright RUDE. That is what these “trolls” are doing. They are not posting logical opinions on these sites….they are just going there to bash the people who respond. Sickening!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003115127516 Robo Benito

    The rational side of America knows that the Right is on it’s way out, it’s in the garbage bin of history. Out of ideas and out of gas, cruising the last few miles on the fumes of hatred and ignorance, too scared to look out their windows and realize it’s not longer 1952 (or 1890, depending on how deep in the moral cave they’ve crawled). This is simply desperation tactics for a defunct, outdated branch of former ideology. The American Right has isolated itself into a corner populated by fearful, uneducated time-refugees, desperately clinging to a country that has left them far, far behind. Yet, like a dying crocodile, they have become incredibly dangerous in their last remaining years as a political/cultural force. They may make a few nasty bites on their way to the bottom of the swamp, but their time is over, and for that America can rejoice.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003115127516 Robo Benito

    And four months on, with the GOP presidential contenders looking more like a clown car in a stupid circus than an organized political movement, are you still thinking the Dems are heading for a defeat in 2012? With candidates like the GOP, who needs two parties. Silly monkeys, politics are for adults.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003115127516 Robo Benito

    Good to know you’re finally thinking, you must be moving to the center.

  • http://twitter.com/FatSeanLives Fat Milhouse Sean

    Well there are a lot of un-educated right-wing whiners out there on unemployment with nothing better to do…

    The best way to handle these guys is to out-troll them. Embrace and extend the most wacko righty talking points you can find, and make them prove themselves by denouncing the insane talking points.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pamela-Norman/1836194102 Pamela Norman

    Article quote…”The third step is to move the conversation in the direction you desire. By doing this, you can then form the debate in terms you can win. ” LOL These people are delusiona!! They HAVE no argument they can win, EVEN IF they were SMART enough to actually pull this off! NOT!!!! LOL!!!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3NVQSZZC5IM66JEOCSFJUV7FCE Jacques G

    Well, thet IS how they’ve won elections in the past and especially 2010, touting JOBS, then switching to destroying every other progressive program available. Unfortunately, many “single issue” Dems fell for it hook line and sinker.

  • Anonymous

    Well this is a good reason for us to all stop putting any stock in the statements of wishy-washy equivocating centrist liberals. So thanks Erick Erickson, from now on we will only listen to extreme far-left voices. Anyone in the middle is probably a conservative spy and should be banned/ignored.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1389564667 Jeff Fuchs

    LOL. I used to be a wingnut myself. I signed up for Democratic Underground to to just what RS is trying. I was careful to plant little conservative seeds without exposing myself as a conservative.

    Thing is, they made more sense than I expected, and it didn’t take long before I became a raging liberal. Now I don’t know how I ever could have believed any of that Right Wing crap.

  • http://twitter.com/DETucker13 Dennis Tucker

    Self delete

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001984795004 Jack Polk

    Well Duh!.

  • http://profiles.google.com/james.w.kessler James Kessler

    I have to love the claim that you have the facts, logic and reason on your side. That’s like Adolf Hitler claiming he loved the Jews.

  • http://twitter.com/ScipiosForum Scipio Africanus

    The funny thing is that Red State and his front groups like the 53% censor posts so much they would make Mao Tse Tsung proud.

  • Anonymous

    Ain’t anti-democracy grand???

  • http://www.facebook.com/kannbrown65 Karen Brown

    Apparently they recognize they can’t win with their ideas, honest and simple. *shrug* We usually recognize these guys, but another clue… these tactics only work when others DON’T know about them. So advertisements on Craigslist? Not too smart.

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