Betsy Devine: Funny ha-ha and/or funny peculiar

Magee later found and posted a screenshot of the HTML form that generates this letter–a spam-generating engine run by the Republican National Committee

Shooting down well-financed-fakers is exactly the kind of stuff we all hoped the Internet would help us do. Woo hoo!

The blogs got the story first, including Paul Boutin’s excellent blog. The first news story was Mike Magee’s in The Inquirer.

Running a Google search turns up 31 identical letters praising the latest Bush tax cuts in identical language. Every single one denounces Democrats’ “class warfare rhetoric”; every single one praises Bush for “genuine leadership.” Of course, that count misses newspapers whose letters to the editor don’t appear online. Could this be one enthusiastic person sending out a lot of letters? If so, it’s hard to see why that letter got signed with 31 different names.