McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments

According to a story at the Washington Post, John McCain's presidential campaign is offering more than moral suasion to fire people up for a McCain presidency; they're also offering ready-made snippets of rhetoric for interested supporters to supply under their own names in public comments to online news sources and forums. Such pre-written commentary by itself is neither new nor necessarily nefarious, but it seems a bit off-kilter that prolific commenters are eligible for rewards — not just campaign swag like hats and stickers, but higher-ticket items like a ride with McCain on his campaign bus. Probably a script could be whipped up to compare the canned suggestions on the site with "grassroots" comments on political news sites around the web.

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Another Obama friend in jail today

[Anonymous Coward]

First Rezko, now Kilpatrick. When will the feds come for the most nefarious of Obama's friends, William Ayers? This guy has a serious problem picking friends.

the basic reason why this doesn't work...

[roc97007]

....is precisely because the massive indexing of the web makes astroturfing so easy to spot. Keith Oberman plagiarizes "Media Matters" practically word-for-word.