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Breaking news: astroturf scandal! (1)

January 20th, 2003 · 1 Comment

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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