Bloggers sniff out anti-Palin astroturf campaign– and the cover-up begins Updated with Ethan Winner response
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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.
Now, here’s the juicy part. Within an hour of publication of the Jawa Report’s investigation, “eswinner” deleted the smear video that he had uploaded several times on September 11. Here’s a screenshot of the cached copy:
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.
And at 4:26am Eastern, here’s the message that appeared when attempting to view “eswinner’s” previously accessible account:
That was fast.
“Eswinner” didn’t just delete the Palin/AIP smear ad and his entire account. A related YouTube account, “Gocamerica,” that was spreading the lie has now also tried covering its tracks and has been closed. Ace and Dan Riehl are tracking the cover-up.
The Jawas, who have been at the vanguard of smoking out jihadis on the web, of course saved the video and all relevant websites.
Rusty wonders:
“If ‘eswinner’ isn’t Ethan Winner of the Publicis Groupe, then why did “eswinner” yank the video so quickly? Or if this was just an innocent homemade ad, then what does he have to hide? You’d think he’d want more attention for it.”
Indeed. Here it is, captured by a quick-thinking watchdog and reposted on YouTube.
I highly doubt “eswinner” will dare to send a takedown notice and reveal himself — and the lawyers and money behind him.
But it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out.
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Update: Patterico on the cover-up…
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.
Update: Ethan Winner has responded.
September 22, 2008
1:30 pm PDT
Statement of Ethan Winner
The following is in response to questions I have received regarding the post on the Jawa Report website.
I produced and posted on the Internet the video entitled “Sarah Palin: A Heartbeat Away.”
The idea for the video was mine. No one paid me to produce it. The only out-of-pocket cost will be the fee for the voice-over narrator, which I will pay personally when I receive an invoice. Contrary to the allegation in the Jawa Report, the voice-over artist has never done any work for the Obama campaign. I retained her through a talent agency based solely on the quality of her voice.
Neither the Obama campaign nor any independent political action committee has had a connection with the making and/or posting of this video. Just like the thousands of Americans who have posted videos on the Internet regarding the current Presidential campaign, I produced this video as an expression of my right to free speech, which is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
I believe the American people have a right and a need to know information about candidates for political office and their views. I made this video because I think it is important for the public to be aware of the association between Sarah and Todd Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party. The New York Times has reported that the Alaskan Independence Party website describes the party as seeking, in the words of the party, “a range of solutions to the conflicts between federal and local authority,” including “advocacy for state’s rights, through a return to territorial status, all the way to complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska.”
While a number of media outlets have said that reports that Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party may have been erroneous, her attendance at the party’s 1994 convention, her video speech to the 2008 convention and her husband’s membership in the Alaskan Independence Party have not been called into question.
Some people have asked why I have pulled the video from the Internet. The reason is simple. Following the posting of personal information about me by the Jawa Report, my family began to receive threatening and abusive phone calls and emails.
Do I find his response hard to believe. Yes I do. I would especially note the carefully crafted future tense usage for when he will pay the voice over artist.
It’s almost …. Clintonesque.
So, he produces the video. He pays for the video production — out of his own pocket. He then posts it to YouTube using multiple phony identities.
Then he gets his friends at one of the largest PR firms in the world to post it on the internet, to suggest to others that they pass it on, and spend company time defending the outright lies in the video — all for free?
And the multimillionaire who is President of the firm also spends his free time defending the lies on his “homemade” — yet professionally voiced over — video?
Hey Ethan, with that business savvy no wonder you were forced to rent out the family yacht! Maybe it’s time to also get rid of those courtside seats.
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Good word, Marshall Russ.
Glad to hear it! Agreed.
Even if that were true, the whole Democratic party is Anti-American, so go clean up your own feces lgm, before pointing the finger at anyone else.
Lastly, I think this is a waste of time to spend too much energy one. The public knows at this point that Obama’s is Campaigning against Sarah Palin, George Bush, & Rush Limbaugh. Such fearful & pathetic little creatures they are.
Never in my lifetime have I see such a vile & dishonest bunch of people involved in a Political campaign, but the bottom line, is that they are on the wrong side of God, & they will eventually get what they deserve.
We just need to make sure people continue to hear about the fact that Obama has no problem with letting a baby who’s survived abortion, die in a bucket on the floor, just to be true to the abortionist cause.
Keep in mind The ONE’s oft made comment…
“I do not intend to lose this election!”
Do we have to guess just how these cretins intend to assure that happens?
The videos and other activity started disappearing only an hour after Jawa posted the story in the middle of the night. Obvious question: Is eswinner a Jawa, Patterico, Ace, RWV, etc. devotee?
Just because an organization wants to leave the US of A doesn’t necessarily mean they are anti-American, it may mean they are pro-Alaskan. When the suits in Washington start hammering away at the “evil” oil producers, more than a few fair minded Texans start rumbling about leaving the bastards behind and doing our own thing. I don’t see what the big deal is. Half of Hollywood swears that they are moving to Canada if McCain is elected. How is that any different?
lgm is so left. lol
the left is always squawking about constitutionality and rule of law. yet, they dont understand it as a document that limits federal power in relationship to the states.
the anarcho-marxist national socialist bile that runs in the veins of the Left is as unconstitutional, and therefore un-American, as it gets.
Bear1909 out.
What surprises me the most is that lgm thinks the AK group is anti-American, but not Obama.
I suppose it is okay for Obama to ‘look the other way’ as his supporters do the dirty work so he can become POTUS.
And, once in office he, with his corrupt socialist supporters will destroy the country which provides the very freedoms they currently abuse.
Hope his supporters realize Castro also imprisoned some of those who helped bring him into power.
Do I think Obama is this scary? Yes. No Doubt.
Of course if the MSM were to actually do their freaking job this kind of investigation wouldn’t be necessary; Obama would have long been a none-too-amusing footnote in the history of American politics.
Thank you vickisoup.
Damn right! And the citizens of the United States have the sovereign right to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
Why are liberals like lgm so gobsmacked when people exercise their constitutional rights?
franksalterego, Thank You!!
And let us not forget that that is the PRIMARY reason we have a Second Amendment to our Constitution!
Thank you, Jesus, that men of corrupt minds are being exposed!
OT:
Looks like the dead have an unquenchable desire to vote in the election this year…courtesy of our friends at ACORN:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/?p=440
PS…that picture of the tomb with the “I Voted” sticker is priceless.
One potential issue that could block an investigation. Doesn’t google own youtube? The leftists at google probably have destroyed all evidence about the poster of that video. Down the memory hole!
lgm keeps saying he’s a teacher. so here it is a Monday morning, and he’s posting at 9:32 and 10:17.
Wasn’t he writing here the other day about how Palin shouldn’t have been using her private email to do public business.
Well, in this case lgm is taking time off his taxpayer-supported job to post on MM.
And please, lgm: don’t come back saying you teach at a private school. Manifestly you are far too stupid to hold such a job. In any case even private employers don’t like their employees screwing around on the net for entertainment purposes during working hours.
What a turd.
Several years ago, I ordered the national (weekly) version of the Washington Times for my step-father. He loves to relax in the evening with a newspaper (even at 84, he still does a lot of manual labor), but was disgusted by the reporting in their Local Liberal Rag.
It’s a great (and easy!) gift idea for the older relative/friend who is not Internet savvy. My step-father loves the paper and has canceled the Local Liberal Rag. (And I think he gets a certain pleasure out of telling the LLR what he thinks of their paper every time they call asking him to come back.) I renew his WT subscription for him every year at Christmas.
Better not do it @ our house…protected by Smith & Wesson (actually Desert Eagle & Ruger).
Suppression of Constitutionally guaranteed state’s rights is anti-American.
Rumormongering (or is it “rumormongerering?” LOL!)) like this is despicable and vile, to use the terms of one presidential candidate. It is indefensible, and even lgm apparently won’t take a stab at it. Nice party you have there, lgm.
Posting anti terrorism secrets is anti American though, so I guess we should prosecute the NYTImes…
lgm’s basic argument: “yeah, but….”
lgm, we aren’t laughing with you, we are laughing at you. Howls of derisive laughter, at that.
As a Concerned Christian, I have to protest your witch hunt against Winner & Associates…
Oh, we can dream, can’t we. You know the MSM won’t pick up on this, and even many supposedly conservative media outlets like NRO and The Weekly Standard will keep this at arms length just like they did with the whole Scott Beauchamp/TNR debacle. Can’t criticize their liberal buddies now. I’d love to see this thing get wider coverage, but unless we can get Rush or Drudge (or both) on it, I have a feeling it will be limited to the conservative blogospher.
Hoping I’m wrong.
I am thinking a hard leftist like lgm would deny that Alaskans have any legitimate grievances with the FedGov.
After all, the Federal Government only exercises sovereignty over 80+% of their state and refuses to allow Alaskans the right to develop their own natural resources.
All of which is done in the name of collectivism and radical environmentalism… which lgm is cool with. Therefore, to him, the grievances of the AIP are not legitimate.
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Is this sarcasm or idiocy?
I sent the information to JD Hayworth who is on the air from 4 pm to 6 pm. I’m sure Rush already received the information.
Two can play this game. I also sent it to the 60 people in my email list and asked them to pass it on.
I don’t think this story is going to go away … at least, not if I can help it!
It’s always easier to create the smear then it is to erase it when it’s proven false.
Why the concerted cover-up? What’s Obummer so ashamed of?
There has not been a conservative politician since Ronald Reagan who was hated so much by libs. Like the attacks on Gov. Palin, the attacks on Reagan contained breathtaking irony, e.g., Hollywood actors complaining that he was “stupid”–followed up by their pals (outside Hollywood, of course) saying he was a “dumb actor”…who just happened to have revitalized our economy, freed the hostages from Tehran, and won the Cold War without firing a shot, to name just a few of his accomplishments that come to mind.
The irony here is again breathtaking, that an accomplished, successful, beautiful, wife & mother, who has God, guts, and guns, is being attacked by those who claim they have ONLY wanted women to claim their rightful place in society…so much for THAT theory.
We have proudly displayed our McCain/Palin sign in our front yard. The local townies have had their Obama signs out for weeks now…
I hear ya. My immediate family thinks I’m nuts. When I speak to family members in other states and mention their elected officials and their shenanigans, they change the subject pronto.
I have two neighbors who actually “get it,” but don’t really keep up with all the details. It’s “eyes wide shut” time everywhere and it’s worrisome — to put it mildly.
If it weren’t for MM providing the opportunity to vent, I fear I would lose it.
I am begining to think Ole Barack must not like women very much. Michelle Obama worships him so she is okay, but he sure is nasty to the rest.
Rush Limbaugh was just saying that SNL had a skit about Todd Palin having sex with his daughters. Has anyone else heard that? That is way over the line even for SNL.
nlebou said:
It’s been socially normalized because it’s a liberal saying it about a conservative. The public is desensitized to it; there’s no outrage.
What, another Illinois organization whining online?
“Concerned Christian Americans … Wauconda, IL”
Worships him? Maybe, but my guess is daily whippings make the campaign trail (and living in Springfield while wifey and the kids live in Chicago) makes life more tolerable…but he lets his anger out on the other women in the world…
The story made it onto National Review Online. It should reach WSJ and Fox News at some point. The McCain campaign can then comment on it, at which point the MSM can’t ignore it any longer.
CNN just got in on the smear act with an article about Rape Victims that had to pay for their own rape exams in Wasilla while Palin was Mayor..
CNN/MSNBC merger anyone?
Of course to their chagrin, they are forced to admit in the article that there’s no evidence she even knew about it. They just hope that most people will read the dubious & puposely misleading headline:
“Palin’s town charged women for rape exams”
CNN editors = immoral charlatans
Link here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/21/palin.rape.exams/index.html
Ben Ferguson on WREC 600 in Memphis was talking about the Sarah Palin SNL skit this morning, and el Rushbo brought it up during the first hour.
I heard the skit and can say that the average family has had visits from CPS for less that what the skit portrayed.
If a doctor, nurse, teacher, etc even suspects for one minute that there is any form of abuse going on; they will be calling CPS and you get a knock on the door.
GSP
Palin cannot keep the anti-America organization from meeting. It’s a free country. But she doesn’t have to be delighted to welcome them either.
Sounds like “fake but accurate” is the last refuge of the left once again.
I could say that “there is truth” in the allegation that Obama is a Muslim.
If that cretin lgm is really a teacher, I hate to think what he is stuffing into the kids heads.
It’;s not an “anti-America organization”, you retard.
If you want to see an anti-America organization, take at look at Obama’s church.
Would you like to bet on that?
If roads lead back to Obama’s campaign, McCain needs to go before the cameras and demand BY NAME those in the obama camp that need to resign. I would pound away on this one relentlessly.
That’s in addition to getting the Election Commission involved. “eswinner” has a IP address.
No one is asking the important question.
How does investigating the Obama campaign for corruption help Michelle Obama’s children?
When will you post a link showing the AIP is an anti-America organization?
Here’s an AP article that was written 20 days ago that nipped this lie in the bud:
Tell us all about the AIP lgm, read the party’s platform and keep us posted.
My name is Barack Obama and I approve this coverup…
I’d have to track this down, but I believe they charged them if they decided not to press charges. (Helps prevent false accusations.)
Well, well, look at all the sleezy thugs surrounding obama. Chicago politics at its best. Morals, integrity or truth telling don’t exist in Chicago politics. If Obama truely had anything going for him, he and his minions would not have had to resort to a smear campaign. It must be killing them to see Sarah draw huge crowds. I hope that Obama is booted out of the Senate after he looses this election.
I have no issue with Alaskans who want independence. What they want is their States Rights back!
Socialism is already out of control in this country. Thank goodness for the 2nd ammendment and the Constitutional guarantee that we as citizens can remove the corrupt government.
The truth is that, at that time, Mayor Sarah Palin, welcomed a state convention to her small town. If her husband was a member of that organization, so what? My wife is a registered Democrat, and I consider what they’ve been doing lately to be “anti-American.” That doesn’t make me want to kick her out of bed, moron.
ECS
After reading my last post, I’d like to apologize to morons everywhere. That should have read: “Are you stoned or stupid.”
ECS
I’d like to see Mr. Bill’s(O’Reilly) response to this info…after he does nothing but praise the Zero for running an above board, open, fair and non-derisive campaign…what a tool he is, O’Reilly that is.
Weekly Standard gets into the investigation:
Shackleford has evidence that Jared Liu-Klein, an Associate at Winner & Associates, posted this video on website DemocraticUnderground.com more than a week after reports of Sarah Palin’s membership in the party had been debunked.
I just spoke with Liu-Klein on the phone and asked him about the matter, but he said that he would have to get back to me later. I gave him my email address and asked if he could give me a simple yes or no answer if he had ever posted a video on the Internet about Sarah Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party. Liu-Klein replied: “I’ll have to get back to you as soon as I can.” Then he hung up the phone. I’ll post Liu-Klein’s response if and when I get it.
Can’t answer a straight “yes” or “no” question? Twelve hours and they still haven’t gotten their stories straight? Hmmmm.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/is_the_obama_campaign_behind_a_1.asp
I’ve seen the WHOLE video of Sarah Palin welcoming that party convention.
If you weren’t so obtuse, lgm, you could recognize that she is the damn Governor and being INCLUSIVE to all Alaskans, even those whose party affiliation are different than hers.
That’s called LEADERSHIP, you dunce. She’s just a great person, who seems like she’s very open minded and tolerant. Unlike you, of course. This crap from jerks like you, lgm is really wearing thin with me. I’m sick of it!
Sarah is a class act, all the way.
Enough said about that.
Independent parties have been common in the Western United States for a very long time. They are usually focused on concerns about the federal government usurping state and local responsibilities and federal government taking their land for their own uses.
The
winnerwhiner has responded.http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194180.php
I think I smell a rat. Actually several rats of the Obama campaign.
Note that Rusty did not post personal information (unless where he works is personal information). Also I don’t know where outright lies are not protected by the first amendment. Finally, why is it that libs always make the wild claim that they are being “threatened” by conservatives when the only threats that are ever bantied about are by libs (see Sarah Vowel and Sandra Blowhard).
Total BS.
Oh, and I’d love to have a voice analyst run the audio through his magic machines.
Don’t worry, the people analyzing the Columbia video will get to work on it after they reach a conclusion on that tape.
The nutroots are planning another viral campaign, yes it’s another lie.
Did we miss this? Palin was a clinic blocker?
I’m curious how the undecideds will see this. That’d make an interesting viral e-mail, I would think.
Sarah Palin was a full-on, street protesting clinic blocker.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/22/111758/142/760/606399
it just keeps getting better and better…NOT…this has got to be the dirtiest campaign in the history of man…the country and the pols have sunk to new lows…Michelle for Prez!!! and not of the obmamination kind either….
Yo, Weiner, you’re right that that part is not question. But just because she speaks to the convention doesn’t mean she agress with their extreme positions, which your video suggests. Talk about smear-by-association.
The disingenuousness of the left knows no bounds.
On September 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm, mojoe said:
On September 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 am, mojo said:
As a Concerned Christian, I have to protest your witch hunt against Winner & Associates…
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Is this sarcasm or idiocy?
Idiocy.
Oh, wait…
The thing that’s nice about Sarah is, unlike Bush, she will swing back at these fools.
Hey
Winner( what a misnomer) ,Hey Ethan,
How was lunch today?
Barry, the Bitter Half, and Rezko all doin’ OK?
Palin welcomed the UN to New York? Or did the Democrat party meet in Anchorage? I’m confused. To which anti-American organization are you referring?
Well, Mr. Weener seems like a nice, upstanding young man. From the tone of his note I suspect there is a lawyer in the family and might have even helped him write the note for free.
I guess all the other circumstantial evidence was simply an odd coincidence and should be ignored.
I guess this just shows how we can all jump to conclusions. It is such a shame that any threats were made against his poor family. I hope that nasty lady from Alaska leaves Mr. Weener alone. I bet she helped break into his email account. Sounds just like her.
Since when did pondering aloud the notion of leaving the US become an anti-American sentiment to the left, anyway? Aren’t Alec Baldwin, and countless others of his raving ilk, heralded as heroes when they threaten to leave the country behind the election of a Republican President?
Who can keep up with liberals’ changing game, changing rules, etc.
Oh christ on a crutch, this is the best you people can do? I realize you know you can’t win with McCain on his own merits, but after all those years being guided by Rove, I certainly expected better than this kind of lame pseudo-sleuthing to rustle up some news… Weren’t you people paying attention?!
“Yeah, all you wingnuts! So what if we Democrats are spreading lies? What do you expect us to do? We’re Democrats!”
/OneMonkeysUncle
You’d think that the AIP was as crazy and far-out there as the Weather Underground, or Rev Wrights church.
What you are seeing in this case is one of the “scandals” that was dug up by that crack Dem operative team that was sent to Alaska after Palin was added to the campaign. There will be additional similar stories over the next few weeks.
Dear Ethan, EPIC FAIL!
Heck, most Texans think this exact thing each and every day. We (ahem, they) just tolerate the rest of ya’ll the same way one would tolerate an annoying younger sibling. Ya’ll really slow us (ahem, them) down in what we are trying to accomplish in the world.
j/k (no offense, just saying)
When the time comes, John Wayne will reincarnate as the 12th Iman and we (ahem, they) will reclaim the Alamo for good!
John McCain is 72 years old and has some history of medical problems. With that in mind, do you people, in your heart of hearts, really believe that Sarah Palin can handle the presidency of the United States if something happens to McCain? That is an even scarier thought that an Obama presidency!
No. Not at all. What happened to the supposition that women are entirely smarter and more rational than men and if they were in power this would be a completely different world.
Nice work, all.
Methinks the “winner” is the “loser” in this case…and that he doth protest too much.
Walks like a skunk, smells like a skunk, is a…
Absolutely.
I have been in politics a long time. This ad was paid for by Obama money. That is why the erase.
Yes, Sarah Palin could handle the presidency if something happened to McCain. Most everyone understands that is exactly what a vice-president does and we were happy when Sarah Palin was selected.
Nothing scary about it. What is scary is that the Democratic presidential candidate with socialist leanings and less executive experience than the Republican vice-presidential candidate has a chance of winning.
Bullspit! Why is it that every time these thugs get caught, they cry out about how they were threatened..their family threatened…their grandmother’s cats are threatened…his teddy bear he clutches when he sleeps at night is threatened etc.? Do they really think that anyone outside of the other thugs at DU and Kos believe that?
And where is the proof? Come on…show us all the proof you have from this cavalcade of threatening e-mails and such that hit you so hard and fast, that the only way you could think of to save all the a fore mentioned from the wrath of whoever these imaginary peoples are was to attempt to delete any and all proof that you had anything to do with said libelous video?
Since you are claiming that the creation of and subsequent posting and attempts to spread this atrocious piece of libel was nothing more than a Freedom of Speech issue, then surely a Constitutional Crusader and Champion of All that is Righteous and True in this country would never bend to the whims of said terrorists but instead would stick to your guns, use this “evidence of foul play” on the part of GOVERNOR Palin as your shield and contact the FBI, Secret Service etc. in order to go after these thugs who have submitted these afore mentioned “threats”. (Here is a clue…you must contact your local police/sheriff department and have them investigate them. Should they, indeed, carry actionable threats to your safety and well-being and/or that of your friends and relatives, they are mandated by state and federal laws to act upon said threats and go after the evil doers. Having done battle with a truly hateful and violent stalker who happened to be well known for attacking Conservative bloggers and their children, etc., I am well versed in what to do.)
So I call “shenanigans” on this troll, and all he has done is give credence to the suspicions that wither the DNC or the Obama Campaign or both most definitely had something to do with this libel, as they have all the others, and you were just plain not smart enough to have covered your tracks and were too secure in your egotistical self-indulgent beliefs concerning your mental superiority over all those in-bred yokels clinging to their Bibles and guns to ever get caught.
That’s right…you would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids, right Mr. Lying-Piece-Of-Whale Dung?
Are you kidding? They need not go that far. After all…just look at who is endorsing Odhimmi The tarnished Bovine. you have the American Communist Party, Hammas, Ahmadenijhoodie, Al Zawahiri, Bin Laden, and so many more fun and decorative filks.
Then you have the Dem Base. These are all those happy party animals who arrive on the scene of an event and scream, yell and intimidate little fivr foot nothing Filipino women, carry signs blatantly calling for the assassination of a sitting President, write articvles, carry signs, scream slogans and generally carry out all sorts of different and creative acts of treason and sedition ON A DAILY BASIS and have not one ounce of guilt or remorse for doing so.
You ahve the founders of Daily Kos and Democratic underground, along with their commentors and contributers who DAILY spread libel and post some of the most hateful, hate-filled, libelous, deceitful, underhanded sedition filled, traitorous garbage ever seen in print.
So I hate to tell these, their supporters and contributors as well as similar mind-set types that what they have done and are doing is so very much worse than any passing flirtation with the Alaskan Whatever Party that the last persons that should EVER comment upon this issue…true or not…would be them.
You can tell a lot about a person, their beliefs, their morals and values by the company they keep and the company that actively seeks out a relationship with them.
And baby…Odhimmi has far more to worry about in that department than GOVERNOR Palin does on her worst day.
Do I in my heart of hearts think Sarah could take on the Presidency?
HELL YA!
People who have been in politics and Congress far longer than she have done nothing but F’up the country.
Even if Sarah were as incompetent as the left lies that she is, she’d STILL do a better job.
INVESTIGATE FANNIE MAE & FREDDY MAC!
If the Liberals and Dems did not think she could take on the Presidency, they would NOT be doing everything they could, pulling out all the stops and creating this incredible string of lies in ordeer to keep her from doing so.
They know she can, they know she is far better, has far more experience, is a much better candidate than the empty suited Socialist America hating fool they allowed the MSM to talk them into becoming their candidate.
Call it “Buyer’s Remorse” or whatever you want, they know they screwed up big time, and their only hope in their minds is to attempt to make her look worse than The Tainted Bovine.
The only problem is, unlike their ridiculous choice for President, our choice for VICE President actually has a record on which she can run and be proud of, as well as not having a graveyard full of skeletons in her closet that need to be kept hidden or explained away with lies and distractions.
Oh, and if The Tarnished Bovine really cared about this Democratic Party manufactured “crisis”, then he would give back all the money he received from each and every one of these “lenders” involved. After all, he was the second highest recipient of money from Fannie Mae.
But he won’t. Show me a Dem that ever has.
There is justice in this world, after all.
My prayers have been answered by a higher power, at last!
Just savor the justice, for a moment…..ahhh yes.
Come with me will you… into a fantasy of media justice…..and just desserts….
Gotta love that! Here’s the kicker…..
Go read the whole thing. It is a beautiful thought, and I REALLY enjoyed it! Thanks Uncle Jimbo.
i would dare one of these “we began receiving threats” con artists to produce the threats…or even better, report them to the FBI.
besides, he began “receiving threats” in the middle of the night??
Sarah was such a good choice that all the thugs have had to expose themselves to get their inept puppet elected. The more this stuff comes to light, the less qualified BO becomes. Ego alone is not enough to become POTUS. The witless dems sure know how to pick ‘em.
Wow! When old Ethan gets on a roll, he can really tell some good ones. I even believe some of them. He’s a real ‘winner’.
Come on, folks! Why wouldn’t you believe Winner? I mean, he’s been real honest and open thus far, right?
OMG this idiot Winner took down the video because of “threats?” I find that hard to believe when the same kind of people make threats against conservatives and our hostess every freaking day.
This guy can hash the junk but he can’t accept the criticism that comes his way. What an evolutionary wonder this sad sack is.
That statement from him probably was prepared in a conference room with 7 lawyers.
He is so full of %$@*….
I bet there’s a money trail that would contradict his statement. Can we get that Democrat email sniffer from Tennessee to go find out? lol
I’ve heard more credible excuses from my seventh graders who didn’t complete their math portfolio assignment on time! Lame, Winner, very lame.
(Just catching up for the morning.)
RabbidSquirrel, when that happens, I’ll be heading back to Grand Prairie ASAP.
Frankly, if she were on the head of the ticket I’d vote for Palin/McCain.
She is certainly more ready, or as Bush would say, “more readierest,” than Biden or Obama.
I am looking forward to a Palin/Jindal 2012 ticket. Assuming there is still an America by then.
Liar liar pants on fire.
you mean ya’ll don’t believe him? Hows come?