{"id":348,"date":"2008-03-13T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2008-03-13T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T20:35:39","slug":"suspicious-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious activities…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last November, Geraldine Ferraro made some headlines by trying to defend Senator Hillary Clinton against accusations that she was playing the gender card by…playing the gender card. I wrote about this back then<\/a>. In a post dated November 5, 2007, I wrote:<\/p>\n

Geraldine Ferraro<\/a>, former vice presidential candidate in 1984, spoke to the New York Times attempting to defend Hillary<\/a> against accusations that Hillary\u2019s campaign was \u201cplaying the gender card\u201d in responding to the quote politics of pile-on unquote. Judge for yourself how well she did:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t let them do this in a presidential race,\u201d [Ferraro] said. \u201cThey say we\u2019re playing the gender card. We are not. We are not. We have got to stand up. It\u2019s discrimination against her as a candidate because she is a woman.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Is it just me, or does Ferraro play the woman\u2019s card as she says she\u2019s not? It seems that Hillary isn\u2019t the only member of her campaign who can contradict herself within a two minute time limit. I think this type of verbal feat – taking two opposing positions within two minutes – should be called a \u201cpulling a Hillary\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that Ms. Ferraro is in the news again, this post has started getting some search engine traffic. What I find odd is that since March 11, the post has gotten about 100 hits from Google and other search engines – and of those hundred hits, 8 people have left comments – an unusually high percentage for this blog. Additionally, most of the comments are pro-Hillary – also unusual. None of this would be exceptional if:<\/p>\n

a. the blog post were new;
\nb. the blog post were about Ms. Ferraro’s most recent comments, or comments significantly similar;
\nc. the blog post discussed race in any way;
\nd. the comments were not so similar-sounding, and all by women (except one);
\ne. any of the comments had responded to the post in any manner.<\/p>\n

Clearly – none of the commentors read the post they were commenting on. The comments they are referring to were about race. Not a single comment mentions anything about the post – or in fact mentions that the post is over four months old. ((I should also mention that two of the comments were defending Mr. Obama.)) Recently, two sites linked to this post: a commenter on BarackObama.com and MyNewswire.<\/p>\n

I don’t know quite what to make of this. Has anyone else noticed anything similar? Does anyone have a plausible explanation for this?<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Ten more people “viewed” the post, and I received one more comment. I’m also noticing that two of the commentors – Catherine Fadden and Eileen Lewis – have:<\/p>\n

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  1. Requested to “follow” the post; and<\/li>\n
  2. Given fake email addresses – or at least, email addresses for which I am getting this error: “A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That means that my email box is getting errors for every comment posted.
    \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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