Mystery as IDENTICAL letters appear in 21 newspapers across 12 states slamming Trump's Supreme Court

[mystery-ak]

Mystery as IDENTICAL letters appear in 21 newspapers across 12 states slamming Trump's Supreme Court pick – and they're all signed by different people

    At least 21 U.S. newspapers ran identical letters to the editor opposing President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this week
    Each letter was published with the name of a different 'signer,' claiming Kavanaugh threatens 'everything that we hold dear as a nation'
    Technique is known as 'astroturfing'; it's unclear who's behind it
    One editor says the woman who appeared to have emailed him the letter now denies ever sending it
    Three prominent liberal advocacy groups that oppose Kavanaugh's nomination have all denied involvement in the campaign.
    The White House is shrugging off the technique, whose history includes similar campaigns from the Republican Party and the liberal MoveOn.org

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5955289/Newspapers-run-IDENTICAL-letters-slamming-Trumps-Supreme-Court-pick.html

[ABX]

No mystery really. There are activist pages like Think Progress, Conservative USA, Fair Vote, ALA, and OFA where you can download sample letters. You are supposed to rewrite them in your own voice but people are lazy.

[ABX]

Example, OFA has letter to the editor parties.
https://my.ofa.us/page/event/detail/letterstotheeditorparty/gsfmf4

[mystery-ak]

There is no mystery here...I remember groups doing this during the Clinton Admin..and even Rush talking about all the seminar callers...

[ABX]

There is no mystery here...I remember groups doing this during the Clinton Admin..and even Rush talking about all the seminar callers...

And it isn't isolated to the left either. Every political group has these.

[txradioguy]

Mystery as IDENTICAL letters appear in 21 newspapers across 12 states slamming Trump's Supreme Court pick – and they're all signed by different people

It's not a mystery...its:

[Suppressed]

No mystery really. There are activist pages like Think Progress, Conservative USA, Fair Vote, ALA, and OFA where you can download sample letters. You are supposed to rewrite them in your own voice but people are lazy.

And every editor, including Daily Mail's, knows these. Before e-mail was widespread, they were distributed via fax. 

When i was a newspaper editor, we'd sometimes get copies of the same letter submitted by multiple correspondents.

[jmyrlefuller]

The only mystery is what shadow organization is behind the astroturfing.

You'll see this now and then on Twitter, too: multiple pundits all tweeting the same hot take on some hot-button issue. I've mostly seen it on the left but that doesn't mean they're the only ones.