Saturday, January 10

How Trolls Work

Dean supporters in the L.A. area are receiving this e-mail, allegedly from Joe Trippi:

Dean for America is currently seeking 5,000 motivated, resourceful, energetic and hardworking individuals of all ages, sizes, and backgrounds for our Paid Internship Madness Program. Due to close sleeping quarters homosexuals will not be accepted for this position.
You've assumed by now that this "homosexuals will not be accepted" edict is a total fabrication, and you'd be right. It comes from a poorly-crafted HTML e-mail from "joe_trippi@yahoo.com" - reminiscent of the fake eBay and PayPal emails. It's cleverly disguised as a missive from Dean for America, but the message is completely bogus.

Right wing trolls have very fertile (and sick) imaginations. This is where they channel their creative energy - on inventing scenarios, names and homophobic mental screenplays. They then carry it out anonymously online in chat rooms, forums and campaign sites, thoroughly immersed in the lie that they come up with the bullcrap you see above. I'm counting the seconds before the NBC News Investigative Team goes into full deployment over this.

This is why the wingnuts rail on the Hollywood Elite. Not having the talent to come up with entertainment, they instead come up with tales of intolerance from the dark recesses of their minds.