Despicable: Stop Rush has deployed custom automated tweeting software, in violation of Twitter’s rules, that lets their activists send tweets at a rate far faster than any unassisted person could do manually. They send barrages of thousands of messages through this software until advertisers are bullied and harassed into cancellation. These activists have long operated in secret and anonymously. But now, The Rush Limbaugh Show has the results of an investigation that names the people tweeting, facebooking, and emailing small businesses with harassing and bullying messages over and over until they surrender. These names are surprising, and include a tenured professor at Kent State University using her official email account to badger advertisers. I ordinarily stay away from posting stuff from Rush on my timeline, as all it ever does is provoke arguments. However, the story behind the StopRush Twitter hashtag makes my blood boil. I may despise some of the lefts commentariat, but Ill let public opinion dictate their job security, without having to fake it. To my lefty friends who might be considering telling me how hateful, et cetera, you THINK Rush is, let me know when youve listened to an entire show of his. I routinely make sure I take in a fair amount of folks like Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow to be certain I understand the oppositions point of view. I know very few folks on the left who can accurately describe my viewpoint- let alone Rushs- and it aint like I hide what I think.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:55:12 +0000
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