When the goal is to get the idea of your political candidate across as a beacon of integrity, a sleeper cell of guerilla marking inelegantly blathering praise in a website full of politically astute readers hip to cheap marketing tactics probably isn't the way to go. From this Metafilter fiasco we can gather two things: Janet Reilly represents a level of honesty roughly on par with Richard Nixon's, and hired shill Alex Laskey makes Watergate bungler G. Gordon Liddy look like Ethan Hunt from Mission Impossible. With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans? A quick and amusing case study on the rising trend of embedded shills on forum-style websites.

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