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    poliskeptic commented on the blog post OFA Tries to Get Supporters to Write Letters to the Editor Praising a Federal Worker Pay Freeze

    2010-12-01 01:05:20View | Delete

    Congratulations, FDL community, you may have been scammed.

    I’m on the OFA mailing list, and I never received any such e-mail as the one described in the Dayen post. Given the ease with which politically convenient disinformation is propagated nowadays (e.g. James O’Keefe’s faked ACORN videos), I wanted verification before I lowered the hammer on OFA.

    So a friend who’s an actual OFA organizer clued me in. The only official OFA campaigns going on right now are DADT repeal and DREAM Act passage.

    What about the link mentioned in the Dayen post? Oh, there actually is a page on the OFA website. However, that particular address is part of the very open social networking portion of the website. ANYBODY can post an event or start a campaign…even, say, a fake letter-writing campaign apparently designed to discredit OFA and President Obama.

    Of course, I have no proof that the creator of this controversial letter-writing campaign was a right-wing troublemaker. But I’m certainly not going to rush to judgment on this particular issue.

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    poliskeptic became a registered member

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