by Noel Sheppard
NewsBusters.org
2/14/2010
The woman that poses as Barack Obama on all his social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter is connected to the far-left organization MoveOn.org.
For those scratching their heads, the President in theory is a member of these websites. However, he obviously isn’t responsible for typing in the little messages that are going out to his followers almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal revealed the identity of the current Twitterer as Mia Cambronero.
Our friends at Sweetness & Light have discovered that she is a senior fellow at the New Organizing Institute which is described by Discover The Networks (h/t Story Balloon):
• Established by MoveOn.org in November 2005
• Grassroots program that trains young political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations
On November 22, 2005, MoveOn.org Executive Director Eli Pariser announced that his group had created the New Organizing Institute (NOI), “a unique grassroots program that trains young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive campaigns and organizations.” Victory in the 2006 midterm elections was NOI’s immediate priority. Said Pariser: “The Internet has made huge changes in politics … Now, our [MoveOn’s] former Organizing Director Zack Exley is working on cultivating the next generation of ‘online organizers’ at the New Organizing Institute. The first step: find 50 talented up-and-coming organizers, put them through an all-expenses-paid training week, and place them on 2006 campaigns where they can really make a difference.”
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