[UPDATE]: Gimme a break, I had to get this out before I gave my baby a bath. Ethan Winner, obviously.
Yeah, actually, it’s kind of important. Full version after the fold, but short version now: PR flack Ethan Allen Winner is now claiming that he lied about Sarah Palin’s AIP affiliation all on his lonesome, and never mind all the other people from his firm. Please, please, please never mind; he’s begging you…
Review here and here: basically, My Pet Jawa did some digging into a notably false anti-Palin video and found evidence that it came from a PR firm with links to Astroturf expert David Axelrod.
Oops.
Anyway, MPJ (via Ace of Spades HQ) now has Ethan Winner’s statement. It’s his story, not mine, so I’ll summarize: Ethan Winner says that he acted alone, that nobody helped him, that the Obama campaign didn’t help him, and that it’s all our fault anyway for nominating her. And there were death threats! – although how that was managed between midnight and 1 AM Monday morning is left as an exercise for the reader. Apparently it was done by the half of the VRWC that’s a smoothly-operating, cruelly-efficient, absolutely relentless nightmare vision of Men in Black – as opposed to the slack-jawed fundamentalist women-hating yokels that’s the other half of us. No, I don’t know how our opponents reconcile those competing visions, either.
But I digress.
So, it was all one person, nobody else to blame, so go away, please, and let the healing begin. Alas, we have yet to have explained the roles of “cnwinner,” “Justyn Winner,” and “stckyfngz” in this sordid little affair. Or, as Rusty refers to them: Charles N Winner, President of Winner & Associates; Justyn Winner, Vice President & General Counsel for Winner & Associates; Jared Liu-Klein, Associate at Winner & Associates. And after that’s resolved, we can start looking at all those links that MPJ made between this company, and, say, David Axelrod. Because Rusty’s taking the position that it stretches the laws of probability just a touch that a pro-Obama astroturfing program like this doesn’t have any links to an Obama operative known for astroturf. It looks… suspicious. And, do you know something? Right now Rusty’s suspicions are pretty damn credible.
Just ask Ethan Winner. God, but I love the irony of that last name.
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Bill O'Reilly Doing story on Bill Ayres connection
PaRep (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:11PM EST (link)To Obama right NOW
NICCCCCCCCCCCCE!
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:13PM EST (link)whiney little….I cannot say it here…other than he is no man! I thank the great country of America for the fine people at JAWA and ACE and all those who work so hard at picking apart little weasels….whether they are localized in America or overseas….BRAVO!
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That's not the Ethan Winner I knew
bk (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:23PM EST (link)Yea, and Obama had nothing to do....
Buzz Brockway (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:33PM EST (link)…with the Hillary “1984″ ad even though a person close to Obama produced it.
There’s no “hope and change” with this guy Obama, he’s just another left-wing, dirty politician.
Buzz
Vote 4 Buzz
LET THE REAL INQUISITION BEGIN!
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:34PM EST (link)Ethan is lying. He wants to save the a** of his bosses including Axelrod… and most importantly, his Lord Obamessiah.
Why...
itsonlywords (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:37PM EST (link)Does this LOSER think anyone is going to believe him, when we already know he’s a liar?
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audientor ito. ~Virgil
Do not give in to evil, but proceed evermore boldly against it.
VERY nice, buzz
Jack_Savage (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:40PM EST (link)I had almost forgotten about that one.
Well my friends this is the quote from the wiener's confession...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 7:56PM EST (link)that you need to pay attention to…
“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.”
How does he know she has not done any work for Obama? Did he question her before she did the voiceover and if so why?….hmm?
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His confession alone ought to be enough
Steph C (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 8:09PM EST (link)to get a full fledged investigation going. Where do we apply the pressure?
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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I Always Use Pros
jimmuy8 (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 8:42PM EST (link)for my personal projects. I mean, duh. Sure, I work for a multi-million dollar firm, make my living doing PR and smears but, that doesn’t mean I haven’t the time to throw together a little video of lies, take the time to review several samples of voice talent for narration, verify that said voice talent has never done any work for a political campaign, create multiple posting accounts, post it multiple times at multiple sites, babysit the ad, comment on the ad, respond to comments, fake alternate “posters” to respond to my comments, write a diary on dkos (just to get the word out, that’s all)–all that, and I don’t even go to bed until 2 or 3 AM on Sundays ’cause I’m just so darn dedicated to getting the truth out that I can’t even sleep, so I sit around seeing if anyone is watching my “private, personal, on a lark” ad.
Can’t we talk about the issues, instead of all these personal attacks?
Congrats to MPJ,
baserunr (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 8:59PM EST (link)another example of the right side of the blogosphere doing the job the MSM should be doing….
“The day you think you know it all is the day your trouble starts.”
Congrats to MPJ,
baserunr (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 9:11PM EST (link)another example of the right side of the blogosphere doing the job the MSM should be doing….
“The day you think you know it all is the day your trouble starts.”
It could be worse
bk (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 9:12PM EST (link)If the guy was black, we’d be picking on him because we’re so racist.
PS You owe me a new keyboard.
Excellent points, Jaded and Moe.
spainishirish (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 9:54PM EST (link)Now let’s see who all didn’t help the Palin email hacker. I’m sure he will be a self-described lone gunman as well.
Comment of the Day!!..Gold Star for your Mancard!
speciallist (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 9:55PM EST (link)i haven’t busted that out in a while…
You wouldn't understand how it all works, Moe
Raven (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 10:15PM EST (link)You’re a part of the yokel half of the VRWC.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
JAWA reposts eswinner's ad
Hammer2008 (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 10:22PM EST (link)The question is, will he ask that it be recalled? I doubt it.
I actually can buy that Ethan Winner conceived this ad, knowingly highered the same voice-over woman from Obama ads and released it, as he did, under four different YouTube titles.
However, beyond that, it was made viral with significant help. Coordinated help.
Additionally, this should be investigated by the FEC simply for rulings that this constituted an actual advertisement which requires the regular disclaimer that all political ads do.
And only six weeks left until election day… what comes next?
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Too much noise! “Noise! You’ll have noise enough before long. The Regulars are coming out.” ~ Paul Revere (April 18th, 1775′s eve…)
Actually, it's worse than that, Raven.
Moe Lane (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 10:56PM EST (link)I’m an apostate, remember?
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
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My (combined) wish list.
An "ATTA BOY" to...
Husker (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 12:17AM EST (link)the sleuths over there for nailing this guy’s butt to the wall. Hopefully that net can capture a couple more bigger fish than this one.
I myself like the MiB image
peg_c (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 1:29AM EST (link)cruelly efficient, maybe zapping some lefty brains.
This story unearthed by MPJ really is great. In a perfect world, these people wouldn’t do this; in a less than perfect world, the media would dig this stuff up and expose it. In this world, it’s left to the VRWC.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
When is the MSM going to pick up on this?
Robert L. Mayo (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 1:34AM EST (link)A stupid question, but I’m asking it anyway.
Robert L. Mayo
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Goethe
One question not answered by the confession.
Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:32AM EST (link)Okay, I’ve had some sleep now… and there’s a question that hasn’t been answered.
Why was Axelrod’s wikipedia entry altered to erase references to his legendary astroturfing skills?
If eswinner did this on his own recognizance, that wouldn’t have been necessary would it?
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Just remember to wear your sunglasses
Raven (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 1:06PM EST (link)We wouldn’t want you to get “red flashy thingied”
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36