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.
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1 Betsy Devine // Jan 21, 2003 at 8:18 pm
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!