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Both The Weekly Standard and Victor Morton at Inside Blogitics – a weekly column devoted to blog politics in the Plugged-In section of the Washington Times – picked up this story about online posers, well, posing as conservative Team Sarah site members – “sock puppets” – and then deliberately posting nasty, racist comments in order to make the whole site and its founders look bad.  

And, to add insult to injury, Geoffrey Dunn of the HuffingtonPost jumped in the fray and alleged that the TeamSarah site was “ugly” in its practice of “mean-spirited bigotry” and “nastiness.”  Seems to me it would be appropriate for Mr. Dunn to post a retraction and an apology.  (I don’t see one yet.)

The administrators at TeamSarah and Bill Collier over at The Freedom Congress have ample facts and evidence, including screen shots, user IDs and related IP addresses, proving that the unsavory onslaught of the “provocateurs” was planned and deliberate.  And, of course, Team Sarah has banned the evil infiltrators and done their best to clean things up so the site can remain, as it was intended, respectful and decent.

If it makes anyone at these two conservative sites feel any better, you know you’re doing something right when liberal fascist sock puppets (hereby dubbed LFSPs) target you for destruction.  It’s a wicked ground game out there, and the wicked will not rest until the sky splits open and Truth comes down.

But The Freedom Congress’s Bill Collier says he isn’t willing to just write this off.  He’s wants to find ways to fight - and possibly prosecute – this kind of targeted, slanderous smearing, not only because he is outraged by the personal attacks against him by anonymous cyber-jerks, but also because “the tactic of [spreading] disinformation designed to prevent conservatives from having a free and fair opportunity to assemble together and speak freely…is as much a civil rights issue as an interesting story about cyber thuggery.”

Collier has my sympathy and support, as do all conservatives who are unfairly attacked in an attempt to censor their speech and/or smear their reputations.  I’d love to see these kinds of hackers brought to justice in some sort of slander/libel court case.  Stay tuned!

I checked it out and Beers has never been under investigation by the Nevada Ethics Commission, so if the advertising did state this, it is indeed false.  And if the Dems and Copening knew this, they did libel Beers and should be held accountable.

You can read the complaint here.

The Nevada Democrats have certainly been peddling a lot of lies and sleaze this campaign season.  Their billboard smears against Beers were called “misleading and blatantly false”  by CityLife editor and Democrat Geoff Schumacher, who is no fan of Beers.  You can read more about it here.

And if you care to learn the differences between the candidates’ policies, you can go here.