ASTROTURFING?

“That is what they call a phony grassroots campaign cooked up by special interests or political parties afraid to show their own faces.”

[The Democrats] concocted two groups — Americans for Stable Quality Care and its predecessor, Healthy Economy Now (I think the term is “front organization”) — to push the White House’s health-care agenda.

Since the Democrats did it, it’s not astroturfing; it’s “Fake But Accurate.”

Setting aside the astroturfing charge, here’s the part I found amusing:

Not surprisingly, an ethics expert interviewed by Politico (we need experts because ethics is a subspecialty, knowledge of which is not commonly found among ordinary politicians) thinks the whole thing raises “questions.”

Ethics are sooo ... nuanced.

Link via Instapundit.