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Palin Smears Traced Back to Obama PR Firm
Just in the past week, since we first began following the astroturfing of Sarah Palin, rumors have circulated that Palin was a member of the John Birch Society and that she hates rape victims. Bored with the spreading the lie that Palin thinks the Earth is 6,000 years old and that she banned books, this week the netroots are claiming that she supports witch hunts. Not metaphorical witch hunts, actual witch hunts.Sometimes rumors and lies get spread organically with no need from direction. But sometimes what may seem to be an organic bottom up grassroots movement, may actually be led from the top and may be professionally organized.
We believe at least one such campaign to discredit Sarah Palin is currently underway. It seems highly likely that others are as well. We’ve done the initial work, but now it’s time for the professionals to take over and ask the tough questions.
UPDATE: Within an hour of this post going up, YouTube videos implicating Ethan Winner were yanked, sockpuppet accounts deleted, and more importantly, the Wikipedia entry on David Axelrod began to edit out mentions of his well know astroturfing campaigns. Hmmm, it sounds to me like we’re on to something.
Read the whole thing. Rusty Shackleford has done incredible work here. It’s fairly obvious to anyone with a cynical bent of mind that this was part of the strategy all along. The campaign would take the high road officially, but behind the scenes the campaign would commit all of its resources to feeding and seeding the underground with any lie, guilt-by-association, and smear they could find.
They even admit it, from
kos himself:
But
we continued to focus on Palin. Republicans were busy trying to build a
positive narrative about Palin — the “hockey mom” who was so folksy
she could “field dress a moose” and had “said no to the Bridge to
Nowhere and other government waste” and was overflowing with “small
town values”. McCain had shot up in the polls because of Palin. Common sense dictated it would be hard to knock him back down as long as she consolidated her popularity. So we set out to build the negative narratives about Palin. This is stuff straight out of Taking on the System. I have a whole chapter on it, in fact.
Hope and change. Boohoo ouch.
UPDATE
Michelle Malkin has screencaps and cached videos.
Dan Riehl is keeping on top of updates.They even admit it, from kos himself:
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Yes, it may be a “negative narrative”….but, of course, it’s true.
Palin DID ask her town librarian how books could be banned….then fired the librarian…later rehired after a backlash.
Palin DID have a weirdo Christian witchhunter lay hands on her and pray for her.
Palin DID refuse free rape kits for rape victims in Wasilla, the only Alaskan town to do so…forcing a statewide new rule against such a ruthless practice.
No books were banned, no books were asked to be banned.
Sarah Palin is a member of the mainstream Assemblies of God churches. They are pentecostal. Go look up what that means.
The rape kit thing is a wasilla police chief decision. Wasilla is a small town and the rape incidence was coincidentally small as well.
All of the above are of course, smears, repeated by you via assertion without links or evidence.
How does it feel to have Obama’s PR campaign pulling your strings.
And only the insurance companies were billed for the kits.
Go find ONE woman who they went after to pay for the kit. You won’t find one.
Now go away you Axelrod astroturfer.
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