Posted on 11/10/2008 1:47:10 PM PST by unspun
By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news” and begun to cast doubt on the Fox News report, maybe she’s right to a certain extent. For those of us on the McCain campaign who thought that she acted like a rogue diva and lost John the election, maybe we DO have a responsibility to come out in public. But Sarah… careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal.
So yes, to be clear, last week I was the one who leaked those things to a producer at Fox News who works with Cameron. Carl and his producers are good guys, and I don’t want them to have to worry about protecting their sources (and going through the wringer ala Judith Miller or Matt Cooper) on something like this.
As you know, I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden. Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. Or the difference between the Shiites and Suni. Or when it came to international terrorist organizations, knowing that the IRA was in Northern Ireland, and ETA in Spain.
The real thing we had to constantly remind her was to never, ever compare herself in any way to Hillary Clinton, as she had at her announcement speech. We had it on good authority that Biden was prepping to unleash the inevitable line, “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah, you’re no Hillary Clinton.” Alas, Biden would have been right.
There's apparently no evidence on the internet he exists or works for McCain. Allah's especially troubled by his claim to work for the hitherto unknown "Harding Institute," named after, Allah notes, one of the worst presidents in history.Sorry, I blew this one.
Hoaxster: "Eisenstadt" has been pretending to be a McCain insider for a while, getting media to take his made-up stories seriously.
Yes, he did essentially lie.
I hope his days as a campaign worker for anyone are over.
Unless the ‘rats want him...they deserve him, I guess.
My gosh what a drooling, barking, gibbering idiot.
It’s looking like he’s hoaxer...... POS “he” is, whether or not he ever really had anything to do with McCain or Giuliani, and whether or not “Marty Eisenstadt” really exists.
Can someone who can track IP addresses etc. get on this case and try to figure out what’s really going on?
Is he a lone wolf or a Soros-type disinformation specialist?
Either way, he really seems to be making the waters rather FILTHY......
Thank goodness she’s no Hilary Clinton.
What a tool.
Perhaps this article should be pulled.
Maybe. Pinging the mod.
A good question.
I think that is a question that all of us should ask FOX News (and "Newsweak").
See my last.
Yeah, that “Harding Institute” made me suspicious, once I noticed it, but alas I had already posted a few times..... unless there’s some other relevant “Harding” it would seem that he is mocking the Rs for one of the all-time worst Presidents..... kinda like naming a “Carter Institute”....
Where, where?
I don’t see him. sarc
Oh, and how are Biden's son and brother doing on their indictment for hedge fund fraud?
You know: trust but verify.
:-)
And Carl Cameron drinks Obama's BATHWATER!
That link on Lucianne has been pulled. Any other link? I left a comment on the Eisenstadt Blog, which is real. What was the hoax?
Crickets?
???
Nobody has proof.
We chewed this thing up last week. She [more than anyone else in McCain’s camp] is the likeliest leaker.
It appears that the hoax is that “Marty Eisenstadt” (whatever his real name may be) had nothing to do with the McCain campaign, so far as anyone can tell.
Thus, he made up this whole story about his involvement.
HERE’S AN IMPORTANT QUESTION: IS THE HOAX JUST THIS BLOG ENTRY, OR DID HE HOAX FOXNEWS TOO????
In other words, what if “Marty” provided his “story” to Fox producers and/or Carl Cameron, who then ran some questions past other sources “off the record” — maybe none of the “real” sources had anything specific to say against Gov. Palin but simply added to the “yeah, we RINOs didn’t like her” or maybe some did spout off about the clothes thing without even knowing how that all came about....
In other words, did Cameron and others get sent off on this wild goose chase by a hoax, then find very limited gossipy “confirmation” from RINOs such as “yeah, we thought she hurt the ticket” or “yeah, she’s a hick” etc.
So this may have been a very serious disinformation campaign run to knock off a leading (or THE) leading R. candidate for 2012????
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