Is Democratic Underground really a right-wing front organization, or is something else altogether going on?
Two comments I ran across on these threads struck me as insightful.
nathan28 wrote
You know what the problem is? A lot of historical facts, like "the CIA ran drugs through Mena AK" or "Money to fund two 9/11 hijackers was funneled through less than five people from Bandar bin Sultan's wife's bank account at Riggs Bank" are "lunatic." The gate-keeping at DU strikes me more as an example of the success of Public Fantasyland and "truthiness" over reality than it does a deliberate machination. So a couple right-wingers have successfully passed themselves off as democrats. Wow. Big surprise. Or not.
nomo
Well, I'm just baffled that anyone would think that a site called "Democratic Underground" and serving as an adjunct to the Democratic Party would not be tightly controlled by the establishment, i.e. said Democratic Party. To believe that DU is actually "underground" strikes me as terribly naive.
Sometimes what's going on with the media isn't so obvious...
All it takes is a handful of Company men to ruin any community in realspace or cyberspace.
Right wing is not the most accurate description of what's going on there and elsewhere, but it seems there are undeniably some people working more than one side of issues posting and monitoring. But DU's far from alone in that respect.
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