Letters to the Editor
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@ Carol Richards re trolls and other creeps
Hi, Carol.
By now I assume you've had time to scroll through the thread of comments that begins with your question about Hardball and ends with Joan's indictment of creepy GOP trolls posing as Obama supporters. Which would be me. I think.
She isn't clear about which of us are creepy trolls, or how many of us there are. I don't know that she means me, but the implications are pretty clear. I am, after all, the person who did (or didn't - where is the transcript?) make the mistake. If it was a mistake. And I am new, and I write pro Obama pieces which I clearly couldn't write for any other reason except that I am trolling for...McCain? Figures. When the Republicans hired me, did they say anything about McCain? Nooo. It was all Romney, Romney, Romney. He's handsome, he's rich, you'll love it. Liars. They'd just better be paying a lot. I would definitely have trouble trolling for McCain for scale. There's no honor left in trolling, know what I mean? Jeez.
So I think I am on the short list for sure.
A fascinating aspect of this is that SOME persons have been impersonating Democrats lately, and THOSE people are voting for Clinton at the instigation of Limbaugh. Impersonating Democrats is all the rage. But considering that THOSE trolls (called Operation Chaos troops by that rascal Limbaugh) are under orders to vote for Clinton and are thought by many sane people to have changed the outcome in Indiana, how very strange and revealing of her to find OBAMA trolls in Salon. You're the therapist, but it seems to me this is just brimming with possibilities.
A second aspect of this worth mentioning is that, having made this really outrageous and wholly unsupported accusation, she vanishes again. I explained how I could have been wrong, if I was wrong, several others jumped into the conversation, not happy with Joan, I wrote a longer and more careful post about why calling people creepy GOP trolls was perhaps injudicious, and our Editor is MIA again. I am so not going to talk about testicular fortitude. It would be easy. It would be fun. But it would be wrong.
And I don't wanna go there, know what I'm saying? I'm a professional. Your amateur trolls might fool around, but they're giving the whole racket a black eye. I'm paid to talk up Obama, I talk up Obama all day long. You want NAFTA, I got NAFTA. You want gas tax refunds, I give you gas tax. Push me, I might give you FICA. So it's like I said. No free shots at the editor. But the McCain angle is killing me. They told me Romney.