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Ouch, I'm getting third-hand embarrassment just reading about it. What amateurs!
by Lazare 9y ago
Ouch, I'm getting third-hand embarrassment just reading about it. What amateurs!
- dragonwriter 9y agoThey aren't amateurs, they are literal professionals at this (in that, this is what the group does, repeatedly, for pay—well, donations from right-wing interests—over a period of many years.)
- MBCook 9y agoI assume they mean amateurs in that they are really really bad at it. This is not their first attempt to shamelessly blow up on their face. Yes, this is what they do. But ‘profrssional’ just doesn’t seem like a word that should apply.
- dragonwriter 9y agoSeveral of the other attempts that have “blown up in their face” have been propaganda successes that have driven government policy and lasting belief in the conservative base even after their fraud was revealed. That is, they've been pretty much complete successes where the actual purpose for which they are done is concerned. They are professionals that seem like amateurs if you don't consider their purpose.