{"id":3859,"date":"2009-05-19T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:56:02","slug":"the-day-i-was-outed-as-a-republican-operative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/alec\/05\/19\/the-day-i-was-outed-as-a-republican-operative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Was Outed As A Republican Operative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you visited Reddit yesterday (and at some points today), the first post that greeted you was:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/politics\/comments\/8lc9g\/hey_reddit_my_friend_works_for_a_company_that_is\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reddit-owned-by-groupthink.png\" alt=\"reddit-owned-by-groupthink\" title=\"reddit-owned-by-groupthink\" width=\"681\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3862\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/politics\/comments\/8lapx\/what_exactly_has_changed_under_obama_the_rich_get\/\">links to a post<\/a> by me entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/05\/17\/why-act-surprised-pelosi-and-reid-are-accomplices-in-bushs-war-crimes\/?reddit\">What Exactly Has &#8220;Changed&#8221; 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<\/a>&#8220;. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s (Virginia and Georgia, respectively). I&#8217;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&#8217;t hold many things sacred, but the purity and honesty in which I pursue things is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, yes, the title was hyperbolic. But, I stand by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/05\/17\/why-act-surprised-pelosi-and-reid-are-accomplices-in-bushs-war-crimes\/\">the assertions I made<\/a>. I don&#8217;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&#8217;s administration. And at the center of the torture debate, the Democrats are scared to death, because they are implicit accomplices in Bush&#8217;s war crimes by not doing a damn thing to stop them while they occurred.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;d all be a lot better off if you got over yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Love always,<br \/>\nAlec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;What Exactly Has &#8220;Changed&#8221; 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&#8220;. 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