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- noun Plural form of
astroturfer .
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Examples
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Anyone notice the pathetic astroturfers from the Crist campaign?
Good news: Crist isn’t giving that money back. | RedState 2010
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I am so glad someone coined the term astroturfers for these frauds.
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Bollocks - the astroturfers are a right-wing thing with that nauseating praguetory character actually boasting on Mad Nad's blog about how he could "help" her out with his friends and all their attendant multiple personalities if she wanted.
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The other difference is that most of these clowns are 'astroturfers'.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling people "astroturfers" who attend town halls, and implying that they are Nazis by claiming that "they wear Swastikas"
The Minority Report - Susannah 2010
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Initially, they were written off as "astroturfers," faux populists paid by K Street lobbyists to provide damaging footage for Fox News's Obama coverage.
Articles on National Review Online Jonah Goldberg 2010
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Think of the assault on the Tea Party Movement and those who attended town-hall meetings last summer; they were accused of being racists and bigots, "an angry mob," practitioners of "un-American tactics," "astroturfers" and Nazi-like, and potential Timothy
Latest Articles 2010
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Your tactic of labelling those with whom you disagree as "astroturfers" is a cop out.
OSNews 2009
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The people they elected to ensure that every bill passed is in their best interest are not reading the bills and are calling them "astroturfers".
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Protesters also displayed signs mocking Nancy Pelosi and others for smearing the grassroots movement as "astroturfers" and as an angry mob.
Latest Articles 2009
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