Big Oil Gets in on Right-Wing Astroturf Game »

Posted By Tumultuous 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
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Protests are back! All across America, angry demonstrations are popping up like mushrooms on moldy Astroturf.

Similar to the plastic "grass," political astroturf is the corporate version of grassroots -- instead of ordinary citizens organizing and mobilizing themselves for political action, astroturf campaigns are well-orchestrated PR efforts that put real folks out front, but are instigated, organized and funded by corporate interests and right-wing front groups.

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    calitennflo3 months, 2 weeks ago

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    In the second half of 2008, as the US presidential election neared, API began airing a series of television ads where spokeswoman Brooke Alexander encourages people to visit their new website, EnergyTomorrow.org API does not use their own name in the ads but does call themselves "The People of America's Oil and Natural Gas Industry." ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Petroleu...

    I can not help but recall how many years the US has set a standard of wasting our natural resources...rather than act with intelligence...and I wonder what good organizations like the API good for;...exactly what history records...WASTE!

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      beavith13 months, 2 weeks ago

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      groan... its alternet. do you think they might just be biased?

      CO2 cap and trade is a bad joke. it does nothing and raises costs for everyone.

      somebody. stop the madness.

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        mesodude3 months, 2 weeks ago

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        "Big Oil Gets in on Right-Wing Astroturf Game"

        --I guess I always thought they were the Astroturf trailblazers.

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