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By: Crooked Timber » » Disorganizing Labour

Crooked Timber » » Disorganizing Labour — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:14:12 +0000

[...] ed to check the ability of the leadership of the American Chamber of Commerce to engage in partisan attacks on Democrats without extensive processes of consultation. This is, simply pu [...]

By: bellatrys

bellatrys — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:31:29 +0000

I haven’t gotten it as popups, but I saw the ad on the AIM messenger prime real estate space, several times, and no corresponding Democratic advertising, and all the headlines with Virtue Party slants to them – tho’ this could be the newsfeeds that they’re subscribing to rather than AOL. I asked around but got no intelligent answers, as to whether or not anyone knew of any particular Party affiliation on the part of the AOL CEOs, such as we have with FOX, Sinclair, Clear Channel. My recollections, back when I followed the internal politics of the tech sector, were all about the subordination of substance and improvement to style, and who was buying out whom, and I just don’t remember party politics being an issue back then. But this feels definitely as if they are footsoldiers in the Hegemony these days…

By: Nick Simmonds

Nick Simmonds — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:46:26 +0000

Ack. I don’t know if I’m more embarassed about the unclosed a tag or the extraneous apostrophe.

By: Nick Simmonds

Nick Simmonds — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 06:22:09 +0000

I saw this mentioned on GOP for the advertising will be entirely offset if we can make this about their advertising techniques. I’m starting to write news organizations myself now, and I suggest others do the same. We may want to contact other blogs, too. Anyone who’s used a computer despises pop-ups, and I can’t imagine anything more delicious than sticking “popup ads=GOP” in voters’ minds.

By: DJW

DJW — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:41:20 +0000

[Henry] could be right, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Virtually all advertising is annoying, garish, intrusive, and time-consuming. Yet those who want to reach our eyes, ears and minds spend billions looking for new ways to do it, and even to subvert our explicit efforts to avoid it.

By: Sandriana

Sandriana — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:40:42 +0000

Robin asks “What kind of shady operators have they hired here?”. Republicans. HTH, HAND.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:12:05 +0000

In honor of that story, I made the below image. Feel free to use whenever and wherever you want. http://www.bbpix.com/pix/republicansownzord.bmp

By: Robin Green

Robin Green — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:38:21 +0000

In the UK, I believe this type of thing would be technically illegal under the Computer Misuse Act, if (as it sounds) it involves non-consensual installation of software. What kind of shady operators have they hired here?

By: jif

jif — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:03:36 +0000

Wow. One wonders whether or not anyone over at the “November Fund” has ever been on the ‘internets’ before. Pop-ups positively make the top three on everyone’s “list of computer things that really piss me off.” Perhaps they should just spam us all with ads saying: gEt y0u’r V1agr’a, bE@sty GrLz, tr1al lawyerz BAD.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:12:53 +0000

Doug – thanks – my misreading of a NYT article on the subject – have amended the post to correct the error.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:02:07 +0000

Brad DeLong excerpts the Wall Street Journal saying that the November Fund got $3M in seed money from the US Chamber of Commerce but was only able to raise another $150K on top of that. A far cry from $10M. And if they’ve already spent $2M…

By: nolo

nolo — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:58:35 +0000

I got a spam e-mail from that outfit today with the subject line “Medical Crisis Threatens Ohio Women.” It’s all about how the Evil Trial Lawyers are scaring doctors out of Ohio. Now, it’s true that I’m a woman. But I’m also an attorney with a plaintiffs’ personal injury firm. Best part is that they sent it to my work e-mail, which is pretty easy to associate with my fairly well-known firm ;) What assholes.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:26:37 +0000

Wow, are they going to lose a lot of votes over that one. If I saw any indication that the Democrats were upto the kind of subterfuge and dirty tricks that the Republicans are in this election, I’d probably wonder if some hidden Democractic 527 was behind it.