JAWA REPORT SCOOPS HUGE STORY
Written by YellowJacket on September 22nd, 2008What do you get when you mix the “astroturfing” of David Axelrod, a supposedly “viral” YouTube video that has too many connections to a PR firm and a well-connected Democratic family to be coincidental, and the Jawa Report blog doing yeoman’s work cacheing pages and videos (which were of course deleted by the parties responsible), and linking the dots in a very intricate maze of deception and questionable campaign tactics?
You get the best campaign story broken by a blog ever. Stay classy, Obama campaign.
Go read what they have put together so far - it’s long, but worth it. Welcome to Chicago style politics. Hopechangehopechange astroturf.
I’m posting this because even though Jawa Report has done all the hard work here, (and Ace of Spades HQ has helped with support commentary) every conservative/right-leaning blog out there needs to help give this story exposure. Axelrod and Co. want their fraudulent “grassroots” video of falsehoods to go “viral”? You got it, guys.
I’m going to meander around the blogosphere; I expect many many blogs to be covering this; we know the MSM will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to report on it.
UPDATE: Jack reminded me that the Rathergate story in 2004 was also broken by blogs, so this may not be “the best ever.” I agree that these two are certainly in the running for that title though. If it turns out that, as suspected, there were direct links to the Obama campaign in this issue, I think this one wins. There were never any direct links between the Kerry campaign and Dan Rather’s story to my knowledge.
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Will the drive by media report this? Not on their own. They need to be forced to report it.
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I’m sorry, this is confusing me.
A video on youtube claims to be grassroots but is actually produced by a PR firm whose leader is a Democratic donor? I agree that he shouldn’t do this, but Obama doesn’t personally approve the actions of all his donors before they happen, just like Bush doesn’t, just like McCain doesn’t
If an anti-Obama youtube video was produced by a Republican donor and the media reported it, you would cite it as evidence of the evil liberal media supporting Obama and attacking McCain.
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And you are certainly welcome to disagree with Obama’s policies- I disagree with many- but claiming that he doesn’t have a grassroots movement supporting him is simply dishonest.
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I tend to agree that LGF and the fabricated TANG memo was the biggest story broken by a blog so far. It destroyed any credibility that the legacy media had at that time.
Unless, of course, you want to consider drudge’s exposure of Isikoff/Newsweek/Monica a blog story…one could argue that successfully.
Honorable mention IMO is drudge throwing a penalty flag on Lisa Myers/NBC spiking of the Juanita Broderick rape charge for several weeks.