FREEPING IS STILL ALIVE

We liberals used to observe readers of Free Republic collaborating to skew an online poll or the comment section of a blog.  It seems that Sarah Palin's PR team  tried to use that technique when she was governor:

Palin's Alaska emails show her obsession with image
Posted on Friday, June 10, 2011
By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers

Her team was equally sensitive to any criticism. On April 24, 2008, Palin's communications director, Roseanne Hughes, asked the top members of the governor's staff to "take action. TODAY."

"Frank and Ivy, if you could get the word out to your contacts — grassroots supporters who love our boss — we need to get them out there FLOODING that Anchorage Daily News Alaska politics blog. I mean FLOODING."