Smear YouTube Videos Made By Professionals Associated With Obama’s Campaign?–UPDATED Now, The Cover-Up

Rusty Shackleford makes a good case that that’s exactly what has happened:

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.

Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure.

It is also likely that the PR firm was paid by outside sources to run the smear campaign. 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. Our findings follow.

Read the whole thing. Who knew that Andrew Sullivan is just an extension of a Leftist PR firm?

It seems to me that the Obama campaign works this way: shower the media and political “enemies” machine gun style. People will be so overwhelmed with misinformation that they cannot keep up. Never mind, that in the process, he destroys innocent families in his wake. For Obama to feign victimization is rich. He is turning out to be the most victimizing politician to roll through an American election. No wonder Bill Clinton and Barack Obama hate one another, they’ve met their tactical matches.

Whatever they accuse you of…that’s what they’re up to.

Cross-posted at Right Wing News.

UPDATED:

Patterico is following the cover-up:

Shortly after Rusty’s post appeared, the video and related YouTube videos started coming down. Winner’s YouTube profile, that of his father, and several others were closed. This began happening within an hour of the posting of Rusty’s post. Michelle Malkin has the entertaining details, complete with screenshots.

In the criminal law business, we call evidence like that “consciousness of guilt.”

There needs to be follow-up to this story. The connection to the Winners and their PR firm is solid. The evidence tying in Axelrod and Obama is circumstantial but suggestive. The lightning-quick cover-up goes a long way towards convincing me. Now the baton needs to be passed to a media organization that can demand answers from the parties involved, who are unlikely to respond to a bunch of bloggers.

And Ace has questions about the cover-up:

And now “eswinner” has decided to end his short career on YouTube, despite the fact that this was his Best. Day. Eveehhhhh.

If he was just some ordinary schnook who wanted people to check out his rad smear-videos about Sarah Palin, shouldn’t he be happy he was getting so many hits all of a sudden? Isn’t that the dream of every basement-dwelling wannabe Murrow of the Internet? Attention? Fame? Hits?

Why is he suddenly so shy to have his work seen? Why does he feel compelled now to delete his account entirely? To erase any and all evidence of his YouTube presence?

Why, just a week ago, he was so psyched that “FINALLY THE TRUTH COMES OUT!” Doesn’t he want the truth to come out any longer?

If none of this is shadowy, as they will all claim tomorrow, why did they so quickly retreat from sunlight?

They don’t even want you to see the video they were once so proud of anymore. What changed, exactly?

Questions, questions.

Why, you’d almost think that perhaps these videos were intended to fly completely under the radar or something. And that now that they’re very much above the radar, they’re embarrassing “eswinner.” Or the client who has hired “eswinner” to peddle vicious smears under the radar so that the client himself could pretend he doesn’t traffic in viciously dishonest advertisements.

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Here’s a story:

Obama thinks you’re fucking stupid. And furthermore, he thinks the only way he can win your vote is to lie to you.

On that last score, he’s probably right.

Ace has so much more and you need to read both his and Michelle Malkin’s contributions.

By the way, the nutroots will LOVE this story. They will be impressed with Obama’s conniving viciousness because they have felt that Democrats have been too nice. This is, of course, laughable. It was a good ride while it lasted, they’ll be disappointed that Obama’s team got caught. Just have to change tactics. And they will.

More here.

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Tags: Democrats • Election 08 • Obama