The blogoverse is abuzz with people exposing the Republican approach to “astroturfing” letters to the editor that praise the president. The funny thing is, We’ve been receiving these for months at Salon, and it’s a piece of cake to identify them, at least in e-mail. (Snail mail is no doubt a different story.) When you get dozens of e-mails from different people that all start off with “President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership,” you get the idea pretty quickly. And in e-mail, the tip-off is that the letter comes in formal letter form, with the “to” address neatly at the top. Who writes e-mail like that? They go straight to the Trash.
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