Are they Behind the Malicious and Deceptive Attacks on Gov. Palin?
UPDATE — Ethan Winners admits he produced and published the deliberately deceptive smear videos against Palin.
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After reading this exceptionally detailed report from Rusty Shackelford at The Jawa Report — I have zero doubt in my mind that Barack Obama, his campaign, and his dirty political machine are behind (to include the funding of) a malicious and lie-filled web-based smear campaign against Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin.
Go read it.
Read the entire thing. Then think about it. Then apply Occam’s razor. And tell me you come up with something different.
Liar.
What the story boils down to is this — a series of knowingly false (otherwise known as bold-faced lies) videos about Gov. Palin were were produced and wildly distributed in a fashion intended to be seen as a viral grassroots effort.
Except for the fact that the videos were professionally produced (and thus paid for) — a trick called astroturfing — by Ethan Winner of the Publicis Groupe (using the alias eswinner). Oh, and that it’s pretty easy to draw a near straight line to David “Astroturf” Axelrod….Obama’s chief media strategist.
And what’s the best indicator that this is shady and deceptive politics (from the agent of hope and change)? Because within minutes of the post Dr. Shackelford’s and Ace of Spades reports…the YouTube accounts of Mr. Winner and all of his sockpuppet aliases started to disappear.
Within minutes.
But, thankfully, all of the videos were backed up. Screen shots were taken of the accounts before they were wiped.
Dirty, dirty, dirty. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s something more than just a little illegal going on as well.
Federal election law requires that a disclaimer from those paying for campaign ads, “must appear on any “electioneering communication” and on any public communication by any person that expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or solicits funds in connection with a federal election.”
Ironically enough, the inaptly-named Mr. Winner’s company, Winner & Associates, specializes in “crisis communication”.
Ace mocks their business expertise:
I gotta tell you, you pulling the ads and your accounts down is, what is the phrase, consciousness of guilt. You realize you’ve pretty much scotched all the various “innocent mistake” defenses?
I’m convinced more than ever, that not only is Barack Obama a habitual liar who’ll do anything to get elected, but that he’s also one of the dirtiest — albeit savvy — politicians we’ve ever seen. He is the nearly perfect product of the corrupt Chicago Poltical Machine.
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OTHERS blogging on this story “so big and so harmful to THE ONE, that there’s no way the media will touch it”
Riehl World View — “it seems fair to ask if Obama funded or knowingly supported what amounts to the politics of personal destruction version Web 2.0 against Palin.”
Silent Running — “This has the potential to be larger than the revelation of Mary Mapes and Dan Rather cooking the Bush Guard story. These guys are hired guns, linkable directly back to the Obama campaign. And what’s better than a smoking gun? Spotting the guy with the trigger finger and gunpowder residue.”
Michelle Malkin — “Let me underline that: At some point between approx. 12 midnight - 2am Eastern, “eswinner” logged into his account and tried to erase all traces of the deceitful, Palin-bashing ad.”
Dr. Melissa Clouthier (at Right Wing News) — “For Obama to feign victimization is rich. He is turning out to be the most victimizing politician to roll through an American election.”
Soccer Dad — “Furthermore, even if there’s an inquiry, all Obama has to do is say that he didn’t authorize it and fire Axelrod.”
While it’s already quite crowded under the Obama Bus, I’m sure there’s room for Axelrod down there too.
And a whole lot more (though a consipucous-by-their-absence dearth of Liberal links ) at Memeorandum.
Q: What is a liberal?
A: A conservative who has been ripped off by Wall Street.
Left by Pat on September 22nd, 2008 at 4:57 pm