In the aftermath of the passage of ObamaCare, the American public has not been this polarized since the Civil War. Some point to the Civil Rights movement and present a good case. But the percentage of Americans who had a direct stake in the outcome of the Civil Rights movement never exceeded 12 percent of the population. Today our country is split down the middle at nearly fifty percent for each side.
In this environment, something new is emerging on our political landscape on a scale we have never seen before. It is the phenomenon of far Left activists posing as far Right wing conservatives to portray them as racists, ignorant, and hatemongering.
For example, an incident happened at the Tea Party protest before the House cast its vote that on Sunday, in which Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) alleged that as he walked through the crowd to the Capital that he was called the N-word by someone in the crowd. Further, Rep Barney Frank (D-MA), who is an out-of-the-closet homosexual, alleged someone shouted the gay epithet "f-----t" to him.
However, a closer look at a video by Dana Loesch suggests no evidence to support his claim. There are three possibilities here: 1) Lewis could have in fact, been called the N-word by some bystanders. 2) Lewis and Frank might be embellishing their story, (or perhaps they thought he heard the epithets) and fed this news to an eager main stream media who failed to check the story. 3) The crowd members who shouted the hate speech could have been liberals trying to smear the conservative protestors. We have no reason to believe congressional representatives would lie about such a thing (although they lie about nearly everything else). So we believe the most plausible explanation is that the "protesters" were actually Liberals who infiltrated the Tea Party protest.
The act of Liberals posing as foaming-at-the-mouth "hatemongering" conservatives is nothing new, especially in micro media such as blogs, Twitter, posting boards, and talk radio. For years, Rush Limbaugh has called these "seminar callers," as they receive talking-point instructions in seminars on how to masquerade as a conservative while calling in. Such incidents have been well documented, by Michelle Malkin to name but one example.
Last summer, Maurice Schwenkler, a Colorado Democrat Party activist smashed the windows of a Democrat Party headquarters with Obama and health care reform posters in an effort to make it look like it was angry conservatives. In this case the Democrats got caught. The Colorado Democrat Party has refused to cooperate with the investigation by coming forth with the name of the second vandal involved.
For example, in December a fake conservative called into C-SPAN on the health care debate, and spewed racist hate speech toward President Obama, calling him "ghetto trash." MoveOn.org has made no secret of their efforts to call in on conservative talk radio.
And if we haven't presented enough evidence. We can look at the most recent activity on Twitter. Two fake conservative Twitter accounts are @BillGreen2010 and @Ultimate24fan. The people behind these Twitter accounts pretend to be rabid Right Wing Another is @AVRWC who pretends to be a conservative Christian, albeit a rabid anti-semetic one. Anti-semetic Christians may indeed exist, but are in factare very sparse, and most conservative Christians are pro Israel.
The most interesting of them all is a Twitter account named @joefuckingbiden. He pretends to be a conservative spoofing what conservatives might say about Vice President Biden. His remarks are so over the top they are intended to appear to be sourced from an angry conservative.
A conservative Tweeter, @PoliticsForce, outed these phonies and confronted them. A thorough review of the tweet logs shows they never denied the allegations of being liberals or progressives.
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