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How do we know that all if not most of these comments that were posted with these "deathwishes" are not right wingers posing as liberals? -- Steambomb
Well, read through the comments here, and at virtually every other liberal blog. You will see, among the contortions aimed now at making them seem less outrageous, assertions that the Cheney comments were not so bad, really. He is guilty of killing innocents and leading us into an immoral war, many of them say, so would not the world be a better place without him? Besides, these are "totalitarians" not human beings. We are saving democracy, not advocating murder.
Are all these folks trolls?
Others say-- often adding a little tongue-in-cheek spin to create plausible deniability -- that their first response was not much different from the Cheney commenters'.
I can find you the references if you can't.
Do trolls exist? Sure. Don't you think that Huff Po has the resources and technology to expose trolls and shills if they need to? They have IP addresses. They have trails.
If even one of these comments came from a liberal, don't you denounce it?
The right scored some easy points. You give them a windfall when your first reaction is to point a finger somewhere other than at the few idiots in our midst.
The right doesn't need a grand plan to plant comments when there are always idiots willing to cross the lines.
