Sock Puppets
Oh look! Now three of this nation's 301,139,947 residents gives a shit that corporations have completely hijacked reality via the use of think tanks and hired sock puppets who spew disinformation under the guise of objective analysis.
"Now it’s in the Bell interest to attack Google on any front and impugn their credibility wherever they can. That way, when Google enters a debate on an issue of more central concern to the Bells, Google’s credibility, the Bells hope, will be diminished as they are criticized as hypocrites, or monopolists or some such. Enter Cleland, who works for the Bells. Since 2006, he has run with the Bell talking points about Google, spending endless time criticizing them on his blog. Earlier this summer, he published a report slamming the Google purchase of DoubleClick, an area of economic research somewhat afield from his background in traditional telecom issues."
The three of us really should get together for lunch sometime. We can exchange stories on how quickly we bore people by trying to explain to them that the nation's government has completely collapsed -- replaced by armies of policy sock puppets with talking points and metal gears where their hearts should be.