Beware- New Labour employing proffessional Trolls to spread black propaganda

Labour has hired an American spin doctor known as the "garbage man.He is notorious in Washington as an expert in the use of the internet to spread black propaganda

Labour has hired an American spin doctor known as the "garbage man" for publishing pictures doctored to show George Bush taking cocaine. The party faces controversy over "dirty tricks" after it said Zack Exley, 35, is working full-time on its campaign.

He is notorious in Washington as an expert in the use of the internet to spread black propaganda. President Bush was moved to call him a "garbage man". Other stunts included fake photographs of Mr Bush smoking a joint and spoof articles by him.

Mr Bush's team tried to close down one website run by Mr Exley during the 2000 presidential campaign. Mr Bush's supporters cried foul again last year after he was brought into the Kerry campaign fresh from running another Bush-baiting website, MoveOn. He has also worked with Stan Greenberg, a business partner of Philip Gould, Tony Blair's personal pollster

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=615230

So know beware of where the replies to your posts come - from-ignore them.

Francis Elliott,

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Yeah sure

02.03.2005 10:58

Yeah sure because of course influencing the readers of Inymedia is going to be making a major difference to the election isn't it ?

Surfer

May be of use to you

02.03.2005 13:17

In judging the content of this article.

"from running another Bush-baiting website, MoveOn."

Since those of you on this side of "the Pond" might not know, MoveOn is best described as a "liberal Democrat" organization which does mainly preaching to the choir. So of course pretty anti-Bush. I'm not really all that up on your politics, but sounds about right for "New Labour" >

Mike
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The Garbage Man is against Bush!

02.03.2005 13:34

This is from the Independent Artcile:

A Labour Party spokeswoman said: "Zack Exley is working for the party as a campaign consultant specifically using his experience of working on www.moveon.org."

I checked out www.moveon.org and on the face of it, it seems pretty anti-Bush, so i'm not totally sure that Zack Exley would be the source of all the trolls on this site. There \are probably loads of right-wing trolls out there with nothing better to do.

My advice about Trolls is simple - just don't rise to their bait. It is better to put your time on Indymedia into having intelligent conversations amongst the activist community about tactics and issues.

Trash Woman

propaganda

02.03.2005 14:02

part of the propaganda trail leads straight to the offices of the independent on sunday. go check out some medialens articles (

http://www.medialens.org) to see just how much they operate as a government mouthpiece.

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Bush-baitin

03.03.2005 14:56

Isn't Bush-baiting illegal under the new hunting laws?

Seriously, I stumbled across MoveOn a few days ago. They're doing interesting stuff and I don't agree with part of it, but it damages your credibility to use such a simplistic slanted description for them. If you've not seen them before, check out this link.

MJR
Homepage: http://www.moveon.org/