Wikipedia defines an internet troll as "someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion".
The McCain campaign is doing exactly that with its latest ads about lipstick on a pig and Obama's support for sex education for kindergarten kids. Both ads are outright lies and they know it. The media also knows it, but instead of pointing out the obvious lies and setting the record straight, this morning on Morning Joe (MSNBC) the talking heads took the bait and were commending McCain fpr the political cleverness of it all.
Trolling is something usually done by immature disaffected guys whose only lifeline from a sea of despair is snark and destructiveness. It offers them a moment of respite from shooting people and watching them explode in a gory bloodbath in a video game. They become dissociated from healthy emotions like compassion or any sense of social responsibility. The only thing that matters is win vs fail (or phail).
What lofty aspirations for John McCain! Now that his character has been totally subsumed by a Rovian ethos, he apparently has decided that his only hope for winning is to bait and troll and destroy. Last week the Republicans spent so much energy building him up as a hero, which he once was. He apparently has decided to chuck his honor into the garbage bin and troll his way to the oval office. The very sad truth is that it may work.
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I am following this elections very closely and i don't like what i see at all!
Sarah Pailin spent 21 minutes talking about her personal life in that speech. Who cares how she meet her husband? Who cares is her new baby haves Down disease? I don't think that matters to USA or the world, as it doesn't matter if Obama is black or that he didn't have an army past! I see a lot of republicans having that as a strong argument to show Obama it's not good for president, as if war and weapons should be always in built someone who is going to lead! But that is the same almost in every country!
The problem is that McCain seems to get ahead with non sense and trolling, that scares me a lot, another mistake? I hope not!
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