Conservative strategic visionary Andrew Breitbart hits the target
again.
In his
Washington Times op-ed today the Internet news entrepreneur
warns of the apparently coordinated proliferation of left-wing,
pro-Obama Internet trolls out to stifle dissent and demoralize
conservatives:
A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is
losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news
sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly
abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points
to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.
We must not let that go unanswered.
Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize
the enemy - us. They want to ensure that President
Obama is not subject to the same coordinated,
facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight
long years to destroy the presidency - and the humanity - of
George W. Bush.
Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie,
perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a
wicked way - all in the pursuit of victory. Moral relativism is
alive and well in the land of Hope and Change and its Web-savvy
youth brigade expresses its "idealism" in a most cynical
fashion.
The ends justify the means for them - now more than ever.
Much of Mr. Obama's vaunted online strategy involved utilizing
"Internet trolls" to invade enemy lines under false names and
trying to derail discussion. In the real world, that's called
"vandalism." But in a political movement that embraces
"graffiti" as avant-garde art , that's business as usual. It
relishes the ability to destroy other people's property in
pursuit of electoral victory.
Hugh Hewitt's popular site shut off its comments section
because of the success of these obnoxious invaders.
Breitbart.com polices nonpartisan newswire stories for
such obviously coordinated attacks. Other right-leaning sites
such as Instapundit and National Review Online refuse to allow
comments...[...]
Breitbart gets it. Such trolls already dominate Wikipedia and
many other online meeting places.
I recently
highlighted Breitbart's work in this space. He noted that
refusing to engage the ideological enemy in popular media invites
failure. Conservatives "can't win the political war until we take
on the Hollywood and mainstream media battles," he wrote in a
previous op-ed.
