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Bloggers sniff out anti-Palin astroturf campaign– and the cover up begins

By: Pam On: Sep/22/08 - 10 Comments

Michelle has a must read for you.  I’ll put up just a bit, but this is really interesting:

Follow the disappearing YouTube account:

The blogosphere is doing the job the MSM thinks no one else can do.

A collaborative investigative effort by our friends at The Jawa Report to expose an apparently astroturfed, anti-Sarah Palin smear campaign seems to have caused late-night panic in Barack Obama-linked p.r. circles. The bloggers digging into the provenance of anti-Sarah Palin smears on the web got results last night/early this morning while most elite journalists were still in their pajamas sleeping.

First, read this. Read the whole thing. Rusty Shackleford ” with help from Jane of Armies of Liberation, Stable Hand, the Jawa team, Dan Riehl, Ace of Spades, and Patterico – traced a Palin-bashing YouTube video to a Democrat public relations firm, Winner and Associates, and one of its employees, Ethan S. Winner. They believe the voiceover for the ad ” which spreads the lie that Sarah Palin belonged to a fringe third party, the Alaska Independence Party ” was done by a professional whose voice they believe was also featured in several Obama ads and other spots produced by Obama top strategist and astroturfer extraordinaire David Axelrod’s firm.

The Jawa Report’s bottom line:

While not conclusive, evidence suggests a link to the Barack Obama campaign. Namely:

* Evidence suggests that a YouTube video with false claims about Palin was uploaded and promoted by members of a professional PR firm.

* The family that runs the PR firm has extensive ties to the Democratic Party, the netroots, and are staunch Obama supporters.

* Evidence suggests that the firm engaged in a concerted effort to distribute the video in such a way that it would appear to have gone viral on its own. Yet this effort took place on company time.

* Evidence suggests that these distribution efforts included actions by at least one employee of the firm who is unconnected with the family running the company.

* The voice-over artist used in this supposedly amateur video is a professional.

* This same voice-over artist has worked extensively with David Axelrod’s firm, which has a history of engaging in phony grassroots efforts, otherwise known as “astroturfing.”

* David Axelrod is Barack Obama’s chief media strategist.

* The same voice-over artist has worked directly for the Barack Obama campaign.

This suggests that false rumors and outright lies about Sarah Palin and John McCain being spread on the internet are being orchestrated by political partisans and are not an organic grassroots phenomenon led by the left wing fringe.

Keep reading

LIKE CLOCKWORK, VIDEOS TAKEN DOWN!!! 

Did Obama Fund Web-based Smear Campaign Targeting Palin? 

Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them 

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10 Responses to “Bloggers sniff out anti-Palin astroturf campaign– and the cover up begins”

  1. Robert
    September 22, 2008 - 08:58 AM on September 22nd, 2008

    Obama: Hope and Change! Not the usual politics of personal destruction!

    Yeah, right. What a lying, filthy scumbag. He represents the worst of politics as usual. Hope, change? Only for idiots who believe that pack of lies.

  2. Wayne
    September 22, 2008 - 02:17 PM on September 22nd, 2008

    I have linked to your post from Astroturf campaign – AIP – An October surprise against Palin? Scooped … these attacks are not going to help Obama.

    “Therefore, as we have opportunity,
    let us do good to all people,
    especially to those who belong to the family of believers.”
    - Galatians 6:10,

  3. Andrew
    September 22, 2008 - 02:59 PM on September 22nd, 2008

    Are you people crazy? There are more professors in my son’s college than in Sarah’s hometown,She’s not ready to run a state really,how is she gonna run this country.What does she and her husband have to hide? What do you want more years of a stupid war and billions more of our tax dollars,and young mother and fathers getting killed.Bush was wrong McCain will be the same.

  4. Robert
    September 22, 2008 - 07:57 PM on September 22nd, 2008

    “She’s not ready to run a state really,…”

    Newsflash: She’s been doing it, and quite successfully.

  5. The RIght path to Justice
    September 22, 2008 - 09:53 PM on September 22nd, 2008

    Well, you’ve managed to simply close your mind to one of finest persons who will do nothing but help this country heal its racial discontent…I’m really beginning to believe that you “colorblind” claiming people are just bigots dressed up as lemmings. NB: I am Catholic Conservative Caucasion who is voting for Mr. Obama…and proud of it.

  6. darren
    September 22, 2008 - 10:33 PM on September 22nd, 2008

    You can’t argue with regurgitated Rush. Not with these sheep anyways. Bahhhh!

  7. darren
    September 22, 2008 - 10:46 PM on September 22nd, 2008

    you right wing lemmings are going to ruin the world. Are we really better off now? Heathcare, schools, jobs, international standing, gas prices, quality of food/drugs, human rights, travel……..
    Really, McSame?

  8. Pam
    September 23, 2008 - 07:47 AM on September 23rd, 2008

    The RIght path to Justice-

    What you are is a part of the little scam that Obama thought he could run on conservative blogs..people claiming to be christians and arguing for Obama. Try working on the 33% of the Democratic party that has a problem with Obamas skin color

  9. Robert
    September 23, 2008 - 12:41 PM on September 23rd, 2008

    Darren: How about posting some useful information, you know, try some content? You can’t expect to get paid by moveon.org for such a vapid post!

  10. Robert
    September 23, 2008 - 12:45 PM on September 23rd, 2008

    The Right path to Justice: Uh, yeah, everyone, I’m a Catholic Conservative Caucasian who is voting for Mr. Obama! I also support abortion, especially late term abortion (I get off on thinking of all that killing!) and I fully support the party that is the earthly minion of Satan, the Prince of Lies! So you see how Catholic and Conservative I am? Ohhh, yes!!!

    Pam busted you, klown :o). You’re not only an organized shill poster, you’re one of the dumbest we’ve seen.

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