By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--January 17, 2017
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“The job offers a monthly retainer of $2,500 plus “our standard per-event pay of $50/hr, as long as you participate in at least 6 events a year,” as well as health, vision and dental insurance for full-time operatives.”
“Demand Protest, a San Francisco company that bills itself as the “largest private grassroots support organization in the United States,” posted identical ads Jan. 12 in multiple cities on Backpage.com seeking “operatives.”(Washington Times) “Get paid fighting against Trump!” says the ad.”It goes over mainstream media heads that the ‘grassroots’ movement against Donald Trump’s election was manufactured, rather than born. It’s people power bought and paid for. Fake News has got nothing on the San Fransisco headquartered, “Demand Protest”, which boasts “we can ensure that all actions will appear genuine to media and public observers”.
“We are strategists mobilizing millennials across the globe with seeded audiences and desirable messages,” says the website. (Washington Times) “With absolute discretion a top priority, our operatives create convincing scenes that become the building blocks of massive movements. When you need the appearance of outrage, we are able to deliver it at scale while keeping your reputation intact.”You can depend that the appearance of outrage will make it seem that sore seething losers among the progressive elitists wiped off the election map with Donald Trump’s November 8 victory, is the real deal in a massive grassroots support that is at heart, strictly street theatre. How encouraging it must be for foot soldiers paid to give the “appearance of outrage” being told their reputations remain “intact”.
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“There’s simply no credible evidence that the opposition to Trump is spurred by anything other than legitimate concern about what his presidency might entail,” said a Nov. 17 column in the Washington Post’s The Fix. (Washington Times) “PolitiFact reported that a widely shared Nov. 11 article claiming an anti-Trump protester was paid $3,500 was fake news created by Paul Horner, who runs a number of phony news sites. “If the Demand Protest ads are ruses, however, someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to sell the scam. The classifieds are running in at least two dozen cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas and Houston, and the company operates a slick website that includes contact information. “A San Francisco phone number listed on the website was answered with a voice-mail message identifying the company by name. A request for comment left Monday evening was not immediately returned. “More than 100 left-wing groups, led by organizations such as Occupy Inauguration and the DisruptJ20 coalition, are calling on Trump foes to participate in inauguration protests being organized in Washington, D.C., and all 50 states. “The demonstrations are aimed at disrupting Friday’s inaugural ceremony and parade, as well as balls and festivities pegged to the celebration. “A search by the Washington Times showed the Backpage.com ads also ran in Austin, Charlotte, Colorado Springs, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, El Paso, Fort Worth, Jacksonville, Oakland, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tulsa, and Washington, D.C.The ads should have read: “Knock yourselves out, scream to your heart’s content. ‘No experience necessary; no dignity needed, brains optional because, as all paid actors know, anyone can be trained to SCREAM!’
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