You really believe some nutty conspiracy theory about the video of Ward’s speech being doctored or something? The only editing done to Obama’s and Ward’s videos was to remove specific references to the specific race (such as Obama mentioning John Kerry’s name). If you watch the end of the side-by-side video produced by that state senator, you’ll see the full text of Obama’s passage and exactly what was extracted. You need to face the fact that Ward plagiarized Obama’s speech, just as he plagiarized the issue positions from the websites of other Republicans. That doesn’t mean that Ward is a bad person or an Obama fan (his years of service in the Marines and CIA prove him to be a patriot), but it does mean that he wasn’t a very good congressional candidate.
And would you really support a Democrat who has a pro-abortion and pro-gay voting record and who will vote for a Democrat Speaker who will push amnesty for illegal aliens and open borders over a Republican with a solidly conservative voting record and who has consistently stated that he opposes open borders and amnesty? I acknowledge that Labrador cast a disappointing vote on the legal residency verification requirement, and that we have to hold his feet to the fire to ensure that he votes the right way in Congress (and if you don’t like the way he votes in Congress you can bote against him in the primary next time), but allowing a liberal Democrat to win is idiotic.
It's no conspiracy theory when the perpetrator, Lucas Baumbach, is bragging about how much he had to edit the videos to make them appear to be the same words.
br> Baumbach: ‘It was a piece of propaganda’
Lucas Baumbach, the Boise Republican legislative candidate who created the video mash-up juxtaposing phrases from speeches by Vaughn Ward and Barack Obama, calls himself a “RINO hunter” and a “Tea Party activist” and is blunt about why he created the mash-up: Because he supported Raul Labrador over Ward. His video mash-up gives the impression that Ward, in his announcement speech in the Idaho Capitol on Jan. 26, parroted Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention speech word-for-word, though that’s not exactly the case.Labrador is a sleazeball, and will most likely turn out to be a bigger disappointment than Bill Sali.
“No, it wasn’t accurate - it was a piece of propaganda,” Baumbach told Eye on Boise today, “and people thought that there was enough truth in it to change their votes.” Baumbach said he decided to exercise his video-editing skills after a May 13 blog post from the Idaho Statesman’s Dan Popkey pointed out similar turns of phrase in the two speeches, and Dustin Hurst of the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s IdahoReporter.com followed up with a May 21 story including video from both speeches. “That wasn’t attracting much attention,” Baumbach said. Simply posting both videos wasn’t enough, he said, “when you’re trying to get the word out, sensationalizing something.”
“I admit that there was a lot of editing that went on there,” Baumbach said. He’d just finished being congratulated by other like-minded Republicans after a GOP unity rally today at the state Capitol, where some were throwing around the word “brilliant;” last night, at GOP election-night headquarters, Baumbach attracted similar praise from some in the crowd who called him “the man of the hour.” Baumbach’s mash-up was featured on the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” last night, though Leno left off the final scene in which Baumbach shows Ward’s face slowing morphing into Obama’s. Click below to read the full text of the speech sections that included the similar turns of phrase; click here to watch Baumbach’s mash-up.