The Day I Was Outed As A Republican Operative

If you visited Reddit yesterday (and at some points today), the first post that greeted you was:

That links to a post by me entitled “What Exactly Has “Changed” Under Obama? The Rich Get Bailouts, Torture Goes Unprosecuted, AIPAC Decides The Fate Of Iran, and Democrats Are Still Silent Accomplices In Bush-Era War Crimes“. Followed by the posters comments on the story, it essentially implicates me and ProseBeforeHos as being mere operatives in a grander ploy by Republicans to turn social media sites against Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

First, I would like to address the accusation in itself: Under no circumstances would I ever take money from the Republican party. I spent my seventeenth year on this planet working on Ralph Naders 2000 Presidential campaign. I spent 2004 and 2006 working for state Green Party’s (Virginia and Georgia, respectively). I’m not going to go into greater detail about my personal history or beliefs, but I am the farthest thing from a conservative. I do not have any sympathy, desire to work with, or would ever take cash to either manipulate a social media site, to promote a Republican or conservative agenda, or do anything that undermines the integrity of this website. I don’t hold many things sacred, but the purity and honesty in which I pursue things is one of them.

Secondly, yes, the title was hyperbolic. But, I stand by the assertions I made. I don’t think it is a big deal Nancy Pelosi was possibly consulted about torture techniques. What I do think is a big deal is Nancy Pelosi and Co. spending 6 years cheering on the worst offenses of George Bush’s administration. And at the center of the torture debate, the Democrats are scared to death, because they are implicit accomplices in Bush’s war crimes by not doing a damn thing to stop them while they occurred.

Thirdly, the incident revealed one sad aspect of the social networking frenzy: it breeds the worst kind of self-obsession and bloated sense of collective ego I have witnessed online. At most, Digg and Reddit garner a couple hundred thousand unique visitors a day. Do you really think that, in the grand scheme of things, the social networking sites are such a great democratic movement? Do you really think that you are so important as to warrant a grand conspiracy to influence your opinions? The answer is no to both questions, and we’d all be a lot better off if you got over yourselves.

Love always,
Alec

Reddit: You Got Me, Here’s How I Did It

If you are coming from Reddit, you are aware of some very serious allegations about ProseBeforeHos being a Republican-funded website. In essence, it has been charged that we have been paid to astroturf and flood Reddit with our neo-conservative, anti-Obama view point.

I’m unsure of how it came out, but it’s the truth. For the past 18 months, ProseBeforeHos has been taking money from the Republican National Committee to fund our online advocacy. If there is one thing we love at ProseBeforeHos, it’s the idea of subverting the ultra-liberal, communist, black, jewish, Hollywood controlled administration of Barack Hussein Obama. And, as social media sites like Reddit, Digg, and StumbleUpon control the outcome of this wonderful and just democracy (and some would say, the very trajectory of the world), the RNC felt it necessary to organize users against the Great Black-Commie Threat. So, Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich personally delivered me $50,000 of Ron Paul-stamped Gold Bars, and off to work I went.

Now, you may ask, how did you do this? How are your posts so popular? The answer is thousands of people are on our payroll. How many impotent middle-aged white Libertarians have you encountered in online discussions? How many fat, idiotic rednecks have you run-over in your liberal limousines? Chances are each and every one of them are on our payroll, doing their best to manipulate the hive mind to undermine Neo-Nazi universal health care and sensible foreign policy.

So, there is the truth. But the real question is, are you interested in joining ProseBeforeHos in making sure that the conservative voice is heard on social media sites? If so, we can pay up to $5 per Reddit upvote or Digg. Sound good? Click to join our burgeoning new media empire and get paid handsomely to do so).

Do you ever feel…

Like you were born into an Ice Age of reason, where you are forced to agonizingly watch humanity go through a formative stage characterized by debasing belief systems, incomprehensible violence, and unscrupulous avarice and corruption?

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