Posted on 09/22/2008 9:43:36 PM PDT by bahblahbah
Ethan Winner, an executive with a Public Relations firm connected to a senior Obama campaign advisor has admitted to distributing a video designed to smear Republican Vice Presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin. An investigation has shown that David Axelrod, chief media advisor to Obama had previously worked with the PR firm chief Chuck Winner on another campaign.
In 1996, a group of investors penned Proposal E in Detroit which allowed for casinos. The investors hired the firm Winner/Wagner & Mandabach to study the chances of passing that proposal. As told in an article written by Laurence B. Deitch, an attorney for the proposal supporters, the Winner firm later led the media effort to help pass the measure. It brought in several outside media and communications groups.
A video from the Detroit Mayor's office produced by Mayor Archer's political consultant David Axelrod was noted as a key part of the Winner directed effort. This revelation places Axelrod in a direct working relationship with the Chuck Winner PR firm in a past campaign.
Axelrod is considered by many to be a master of planting campaign messages on the internet to look like they did not originate from an organized campaign, a practice know as “astroturfing” (because of the fake grass-roots nature of the message). The joint effort on the Prop E campaign is the first public indication of a direct tie between the Obama campaign team and the Winner PR firm.
Bloggers at the website “The Jawa Report” have used their collective investigative talent to expose the originators of the video. Normally, the blog specializes in tracking down and stopping sources of internet-based Islamic extremism, also known as jihadist propaganda. The bloggers recently turned their abilities to finding the source of the Palin smear video. After their discloser, Ethan Winner admitted to orchestrating the smear video but denied that it came from the Obama campaign. The connection between Winner and Axelrod calls into question the matter of the Obama campaign's culpability in the smear video tactic.
http://www.examiner.com/x-701-National-Defense-Examiner~y2008m9d22-PR-firm-behind-Palin-smears-has-history-with-Obama-media-chief-Axelrod
It goes good along side bidens retraction....
thanks . Obama and Axelrod are pure evil and scary.
The Jawa guys got him by the ‘nads. They didn’t even bother to try an lie about it. Although now by saying there is no connection to the Osama campaign they are lying about it.
The funny part was when they yanked it off YouTube after that Winner idiot published it under his own name. Axelrod my ass. The Osama campaign is being run by the Three Stooges and Mo is running for President.
I guess now we know why the Obama Boys Club set up an anti-smear group. They new that McCain would be returning fire.
Something else suspicious which points to a direct link with the Obama campaign is the woman doing the narrating - she sounds exactly like the same woman who has narrated previous Obama ads. Winner has tried to stay it’s not the same person, of course.
Rove was a rank amateur compared to these devil spawn
Another Soros investment ?
Another Soros investment ?
Someone should check FEC filings to see if this firm was listed on any campaign reports.
It turns out this was probably done on advice from Lawyers. Ultimately, using false names on internet accounts comes with a price as this can run afoul of internet fraud legislation. If this ever came up in front of the FEC, they may only get a slap on the wrist for the ASTROTURFING but the internet fraud would be good for 5 years in Prison.
bttt
Looks like Winner is becoming infamous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BG2_e-T9Go
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