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"Piper Scott" is the nom de plume for a Mr. Scott St. Claire, a paid right wing propagandist working for a tax free "think tank" called the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. He also appears, without identifying himself as a political flack, on the liberal blog HorsesAss.

Who is EFF? Like Fox News, the EFF claims to be non partisan. Worse, EFF claims to be a non political organization and collects tax free donations. Its leadership includes a number of far right local politicians, including John Carlson, as well the members of the far right talk radio "hosts." Interestingly, if you donate to the EFF, they give you credit for a donation to their "mission." It would be intersting to know if the EFF is actually a front for some church.

Recently the EFF sponsored, and probably subsidized, the appearance of Glenn Beck at SAFECO field. In effect this was a publicly subsidized function of the Republican Party complete with several Republican candidates for office and booing sessions against Mr. Obama and Ms. Gregoire led from the speaker's podium.

What does Scottie St Claire do for this far right organization? Mysteriously, his is the only staff job at EFF with no assigned tasks. He himself described his job there as investigative reporting:

“I’m part of that wing of the new journalism coming out of think tanks. ”

"Journalism?" What is the line between journalism and propaganda? Is Beck also a "journalist?" Ironically, St Claire has complained publicly that he is not treated as a journalist when it comes to getting free tickets to events. For what it is worth, Scottie's previous carear was as a head hunter for the paper industry .. an obvioulsy impressive credential for someone claiming to be an "investigative rep0rter."

As I happens I remember Scottie talking about his job search when things were nto going well in the head hunter business. "Piper" got hired at EFF in part BECAUSE of his activity at HA. Why would the EFF do this, except to hire him as a flack? Typically his posts are shallow and lacking in any information. The best one can say for Scottie is that. unlike his fellow trolls, Piper Scott does not use the N word or or call folks f–ckers. My guess is that EFF would not find such speech appropriate for the representative of a tax free foundation but does like to keep a finger in the muck to see how hot things might be.

By the way, PS has also been a paid flack of Glenn Beck’s favorite whipping boy the SEIU. So perhaps he is simply a hired gun with no real beliefs?