Have any of the reporters around the state noticed that FiredUp is no longer boasting the writings of any of the fake accounts I identified last week? Sean Nicholson is ramping up his personal attacks, but strangely the rest of the community is silent. Maybe community isn't the right word.
The Latest Diaries, which are posts written by actual citizens, have only 4 entries in the last month. One is the fake George Caleb Bingham, one is Betty from Stone County, and the other are from Barking Blue. So a total of 2 people have written on FiredUp that are not the fake accounts created in the last month.
Patrick Tuohey gets in on the game, noting that Sean Nicholson tried to claim the public posted at FiredUp:
Well we know that was a lie designed to keep FiredUp off the FEC radar, and it's proven by the fact that no one but Sean has posted since July 31st, especially considering the torrid pace the FUM authors had set this year. General Content is no longer attacking Kinder, and Blunt Ed has gone silent. Almost as if they're afraid of what might happen if people sit up and take notice.
Of course I'm not the only one who notices just how connected to the Carnahan campaigns the FiredUp authors are. ShowMeProgress was kind enough to expose a nasty bit of work attacking Jeff Smith posted by General Content earlier this year. Clark at SMP wrote on the mocking tone and personal insults calling out Jeff Smith. That post has been changed, but you can see what was said in the comments - they were mocking him for speaking in a lisp. We have no clue if they were calling him gay or if they were making fun of a speech impediment.
Is this post representative of what this once-fine site is becoming? Insulting fellow Democrats - not on substance - go for it, politics is a contact sport - but for a lisp? Unbelievable that this is on the front page.
The post was edited and "pulled back," but Jeff Smith was the primary challenger to Russ Carnahan when he won Gephardt's seat. His movie, Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington Anymore, infuriated the Carnahan's, and they're still seeking payback years later.
As for me - the day I posted the first set, Democratic lawyers started reading the site, as did a whole slew of people from mo.gov and missouri.gov. The icing on the cake was the anonymous call placed to my company to fish for information. Knowing what was happening, I stalled, at which point the person on the other line (young guy on speaker), told me the call was about "a shark and a halfwit." Classy, but ineffectual. Keep calling though - it means I'm making a difference.
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