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Via Ace is MyPetJawa's expose'
Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them [Updated]
 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.
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David Axelrod is also known as The master of "Astroturfing"
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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.
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Within an hour of this post going up, YouTube videos implicating Ethan Winner were yanked, sockpuppet accounts deleted, and more importantly, the Wikipedia entry on David Axelrod began to edit out mentions of his well know astroturfing campaigns. Hmmm, it sounds to me like we're on to something An example:
“Like it or not, the perception is growing that Team Obama is focusing on [Sarah] Palin as a clueless hockey mom from way up north and on [John] McCain as an old fogy. But that emphasis on sex and age doesn’t become a moralist, especially given Obama’s own siren warnings that his opponents might resort to racial attacks against him. Then there were Obama’s once-lofty progressive principles. Yet no Northern Democratic liberal like Obama has won the presidency in a half-century. So everyone knew that Obama sooner or later had to move to the center in the general election to win over independents. For the hope-and-change candidate, those natural readjustments now appear insincere and opportunistic—especially given that he had to move so far from the left to get to the middle. On campaign-finance reform, FISA, NAFTA, abortion, capital punishment, guns, Iran, Iraq, the surge, and drilling offshore, Obama has fudged on his earlier positions in the normal way of savvy pragmatists—but not in a manner befitting angelic idealists. The new Obama probably will recover from his temporary setback in the polls. But right now his problem is that disappointed independent voters are catching on that this saintly savior is all too human.” -- Victor Davis Hanson
“Liberals have indignantly claimed that [Alaska Gov. Sarah] Palin thinks the Founding fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, which is Olbermannic in the sense that (a) if it were true, it’s trivial, and (b) it’s not true. Their claim is based on a questionnaire Palin filled out when she was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, which asked the candidates if they were ‘offended by the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.’ Palin answered: ‘Not on your life. If it was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it’s good enough for me, and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.’ As anyone can see, Palin was not suggesting that the Founding Fathers ‘wrote’ the Pledge of Allegiance: She said the Founding Fathers believed this was a country ‘under God.’ Which, um, it is. For the benefit of MSNBC viewers who aren’t watching it as a joke, the whole point of the Declaration of Independence was to lay out the founders’ breathtaking new argument that rights came not from the king, but from God or, as the Declaration said, ‘Nature’s God,’ the ‘Creator.’... There is no disputing that a nation ‘under God’ was ‘good enough’ for the Founding Fathers, exactly as Palin said.” -- Ann Coulter Michelle Malkin
Bloggers sniff out anti-Palin astroturf campaign– and the cover up begins
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. Patterico
Potential Bombshell: Was Obama’s Chief Media Strategist David Axelrod Behind an Astroturfing Campaign to Promote a False YouTube Smear Against Sarah Palin?
If Big Media doesn’t pick up on this story, it will confirm every suspicion we have ever had about their bias.
The Cover-Up Begins
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. Ed Morrissey
Corporate sockpuppetry for Team Obama?
If all of this is true and the Obama campaign can be connected to it, it would represent a massive set of FEC violations, as well as the ultimate repudiation of “hope and change” and “New Politics”.
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...consider what Team Obama did to Stanley Kurtz and David Freddoso. They don’t seem hesitant in the least to conduct smear campaigns and character assassination to win elections, and they conducted those two attacks openly. With that kind of track record, it doesn’t seem out of the question for them to have conducted a slimy, unethical attack on a political opponent who threatened to steal all of the oxygen away from their campaign in a way that hid their involvement. Jim Geraghty
Where Did All of Those False Sarah Palin Rumors Come From, Anyway?
Sure seems like somebody's got something to hide.
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"They don't even want you to see the video they were once so proud of anymore. What changed, exactly?" -- Ace
Ace : No Defamation Without Representation!
That's a pretty fast response time. I didn't mention Winner & Associates in my hints. So why would they be on notice?
I only mentioned Axelrod and Obama.
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I guess I'm more popular with Democoratic media firm executives than I thought.
Screencaps: of the accounts, before Mr. Average Concerned Citizen "eswinner" erased them all.
Anti-Palin Astroturfing Traced Directly to Obama-Connected PR Firm
David Axelrod, "the Master of Astroturfing," according to other PR agents quoted by Business Week.
In the past he's created "grassroots" front-groups to, for example, gin up public enthusiasm for utility company rate hikes.
And you know how quickly "grassroots organizations" spring up to demand utility companies raise their electricity rates.
As many have noted, legions of CCC's (Concerned Christian Conservatives) have suddenly sprung up all over the internet to attack Palin and repeat Obama talking points.
Bit of Background for the Coming Story...
David Axelrod's client list is top secret. Partly that is to disguise the fact that when he's not running the political campaigns of left-wing politicians, he's conducting dishonest astroturf campaigns on behalf of large deep-pocketed corporations considered "villains" to the left, such as utility companies seeking rate hikes or AT&T. But that secret list of clients -- and associations -- also comes in handy for disguising his political astroturfing, too. The media, of course, has shown no interest in investigating this.
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Bear these facts in mind about Axelrod tactics when the left begins spinning, "But this was an independent ad we had nothing at all to do with!"
The Lying Media ...But, I repeat myself (Kat-Mo)
A reporter fabricates a story and interviews to make sensational headlines? No way!
Obama Abandons the Fifty State Strategy
He's giving up on North Dakota, Georgia, Idaho, and Alaska. Of course, they're making it about race. Hugh Hewitt
More On The Obama Dirty Tricks Team
In a conference call underway now to highlight the new "Chicago Machine" ad, McCain Palin campaign manager Rick Davis blasted the "very negative" campaign run by Obama since the convention, and notes he is "amazed by the level of personal attacks" launched by the self-declared new kind of candidate.
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In response to my question about this morning's story about the possible source of attacks on Sarah Palin and the past attacks on Stanley Kurtz and David Freddoso, Schmidt noted the "fierce campaign of intimidation waged against any critic of Obama," and promised to look into the new story closely though he challenged the MSM to investigate the ties between David Axelrod and the Winner firm and whether the internet smear campaign was being run de facto by the Obama campaign. Schmidt also used the question to demand increased scrutiny of the Obama-Ayers relationship. Thug-o-crats... |
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