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By Victor Morton

Not Sarah's folks

The conservative TeamSarah site has caught liberals trying to defame Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her online backers by posing as "sock puppet" conservatives to post incendiary content.

The leaders at the 63,000-member site noted weird posts late in the week "from individuals who seemed overwhelmingly racist, bigoted, and in general unsavory sorts posing as Palin, and traditionalist values, supporters."

According to an account by William Collier at the RedState diary, the Freedomist, Team Sarah has 15 pages of evidence, including "screen shots, ID's, and IP's of a number of individuals who have planned an effort, and attempted to implement it, to act as agent provocateurs and discredit Team Sarah by planting racist and other unsavory material as if they were members."

The charges of racism at Team Sarah have been made at the Huffington Post and elsewhere in the liberal blogosphere.

"It is the equivalent of framing the innocent, it is pure dirty tricks. And it is vile. We call upon all principled Liberals to condemns these actions," Mr. Collier wrote.

Mr. Collier blamed the attacks on an "aptly named" site called somethingawful.com and linked to excerpts of the discussions there. A sample:

• "It's our duty to steer the site away from reason and into the realms of racism and insanity just in time for the 2012 primaries."

• "Let's see how many people I can race bait."

• "Also is america4AMERICANS one of us or what."