Obama Internet Savvy: Anti-Palin YouTube Video Linked to Obama

Obama Campaign's Internet Savviness
Savvy = Dirty Tricks
Anti-Palin YouTube Video Only the latest Instance





Barack Obama has proved that he is the most Internet savvy of the two major candidates--if using the Internet to shut down criticism and spread slander is the measuring stick.


First came the Obamabots, shutting down blogs who criticized the candidate that PUMAs (Party Unity My Ass) insist was "selected, not elected". [Google, Blogger, Obama: Obamanation Shut Down My Blog!]

Next, spam attacks. [Blog Shutdowns: Spam Attack from IPs Assigned to barackobama.com].

Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them

Then, a YouTube video is posted by "amateurs" that is traced back to a PR firm with ties to Obama. [Also: Bloggers sniff out anti-Palin astroturf campaign– and the cover up begins].

As soon as The Jawa Report released its post linking the PR firm to the slanderous Palin videos, the videos disappear from YouTube and the account is closed, ala John Edwards' Rielle Hunter-produced webisodes.

From "Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them":

It is also likely that the PR firm was paid by outside sources to run the smear campaign. While not conclusive, evidence suggests a link to the Barack Obama campaign. Namely:

* Evidence suggests that a YouTube video with false claims about Palin was uploaded and promoted by members of a professional PR firm.

* The family that runs the PR firm has extensive ties to the Democratic Party, the netroots, and are staunch Obama supporters.

* Evidence suggests that the firm engaged in a concerted effort to distribute the video in such a way that it would appear to have gone viral on its own. Yet this effort took place on company time.

* Evidence suggests that these distribution efforts included actions by at least one employee of the firm who is unconnected with the family running the company.

* The voice-over artist used in this supposedly amateur video is a professional.

* This same voice-over artist has worked extensively with David Axelrod's firm, which has a history of engaging in phony grassroots efforts, otherwise known as "astroturfing."

* David Axelrod is Barack Obama's chief media strategist.

* The same voice-over artist has worked directly for the Barack Obama campaign.

The Obama campaign is Internet savvy. This would have been completely overlooked by the investigative geniuses in the MSM. Readers will recall the MSM were the "news" organizations that averted their collective eyes for ten months on the John Edwards Scandal.

The MSM then conducted an eleven day, 24/7 SlopNewsFest, where "reporters" and pundits interviewed each other about why the story wasn't reported for ten months. The hand-wringing-palooza included plenty of references to "professionalism", "ethics" and "judgment"--none of them sourced.

Big Media, then satisfied it had thoroughly covered itself not covering the story, promptly fell back asleep--with the exception of ABC News.

Jawa's Report reads like a novel. This may be the best thing you read all week--which is saying something at a time when news comes fast, furious and faster.

Dr. Shackleford also hands out plaudits to bloggers who joined in the investigative effort:

Thanks to Jane & Stable Hand who did a lot of the Googling on this one, the Jawa team for input, and our legal division for extensive advice. Also thanks to Dan Riehl and Ace for input and help with drafts; and Patterico for putting together the bullet point summary.

It's likely the NY Times won't have anything about this: it's too busy with its 53rd daily anti-Palin article linking Bristol Palin's boyfriend to tooth decay.

Ditto for the Left Blogosphere: they're occupied publishing family pictures taken from Palin's private emails and ginning up reasons why that's important.

Thank heavens for the blogosphere: where those with computers and an Internet connection may stay informed.

One more sign of the Obama campaign's Internet attack tactics:

The Obama campaign has put some major time and money behind causing trouble on conservative blogs. The idea is to have Obama supporters disguise themselves as conservatives and then bring us down with their faux concerns.

Remember, our own Smellybeef? He arrived over the weekend pretending to be a McCain campaign worker from Wisconsin and expressed concerned over the direction of the McCain campaign, worried that certain McCain decisions proved “the wheels were coming off” our chances.

Every time that an Obama supporter is tied to a dirty trick--whether it's publishing Sarah Palin's private emails, shutting down blogs critical of Obama or pushing out a slick PR firm-produced video under the guise of an amateur--Barack Obama decries it.

And then, they continue.

Once might be a surprise; twice, a coincidence; more than twice, it's a pattern.

Our prediction: This won't the last you hear from a campaign that seems intent on attacking the Internet messengers who carry the wrong message.


by Mondo
image: RidesAPaleHorse

Anonymous Versus Scientology CyberWar: Youtube Battleground

Recently DBKP wrote of the Cyber-War being waged between the mysterious groups known as Anonymous and the Church of Scientology. When we went to find Scientology's take on Anonymous, whether the organization had issued any statements or the like regarding their sworn enemy, we came across the remants of a video battle waged on Youtube. From what we observed, one side managed to "eviscerate" the other in plain cyber-site.

Scientology had issued a statement to Newsweek, calling Anonymous "a group of cyber-terrorists... perpetrating religious hate crimes against the Churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists for no reason other than religious bigotry".

In the Newsweek article an Anonymous spokesperson said the group, hardly a cyber-terrorist act, had "plans to start a lobbying campaign to have the church stripped of its 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, which was reinstated in 1993. (In 1967, tax authorities revoked its tax-exemption status on the grounds that the organization's auditing scheme operated as Hubbard's personal for-profit venture, and in 1984 the U.S. Tax Court found the organization guilty of "manufacturing and falsifying records to present to the IRS, burglarizing IRS offices and stealing government documents, and subverting government processes for unlawful purposes.") " Source - Newsweek

According to ABC News, Scientology chose to fight back "with its own public relations onslaught, releasing a recent video titled "Anonymous Exposed," which claims to identify individuals it said were members of the group and accuses them of being accessories to criminal acts that include death threats and destruction of property."

Church spokeswoman Karin Pouw added that the church is "working with federal and local law enforcement."[The video] summarizes our position."
Source - ABC News: Scientology's Anonymous Critics: Who are they?




Video entitled "Anonymous Exposed" on Youtube

This is the video we found on Youtube entitled Anonymous Exposed. From what we observed the video had fallen into enemy hands. Rendered a mere shell of itself, its guts cyber-surgically altered, with evidence of Rick Rolling, it was clear that Anonymous had won.

We found the original Anonymous Exposed video on Youtube and posted it here for comparison sake. It's a prime example of bloodless cyber-warfare. Essentially Anonymous or someone had taken over the original Scientology video and turned it into a weapon of supreme satire.



The altered video floats across cyber-space, effectively rendered impotent by an anonymous cyber-surgical strike. Scientology's own message had been replaced with inside satire sharp enough to slice through the cult-like hyperbole.

In the cyber-war that rages between Scientology and the group known as Anonymous, the remains of the Anonymous Exposed video tell a story of a bloodless battle fought across the territory known as Youtube, of a win for Anonymous and another digital "pie in the face" for Scientology.

By LBG


Image - Anonymous
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Theatre President's Actress' Wife Airs Dirty Laundry on YouTube

British actress Tricia Walsh-Smith takes the newest step in airing one's dirty laundry, a long winded kooky diatribe bent on exposing her hubby, Phillip Smith, President of the Shubert Organization, and their marriage woes.




The internet and sites such as Youtube have become a global "town square". Mrs. Smith used Youtube as a venue to publicly air her gripes about her hubby or did she do it in order to publicly embarrass and humiliate him?

Whatever her motive, in the end, the only fool is Mrs. Smith. Most of us do not want to be privy to the inner workings of other people's marriages. It's like being stuck on a bar stool next to a stranger who reveals details about their mate, details which should remain private, details, which if the other person knew where being bandied about in public, would be highly embarrassed.

In short, Mrs. Smith broke the code of Relationship Conduct. If the details you tattle about your mate or soon to be ex-mate are salacious, and you participated in those details, such as Mrs. Smith's husband's Viagra and porn habits, then you've outed yourself as an even bigger fool than your husband.

In the end it was Mrs. Smith's actions on the Youtube video, of publicly airing her marriage's dirty laundry, that catapulted her into the catbird seat of fools.

By LBG

Source - Rocky Mountain News - Youtube Video Highlights irreconcilable differences

YouTube's New Logo?

RidesAPaleHorse had this to say about YouTube pulling Geert Wilder's "Fitna" from it's site.

Well...YouTube has done it again.

I got lucky and was able to see the whole thing before it was removed by YouTube. " This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." All 12 parts.

Unfuckinbelieveable.

Well, I guess not.

[T]his was one of the most informative and frightening things I have ever seen. All we can do is hope that someone, somewhere will find a way to repost it. This NEEDS TO BE SEEN by anyone who still thinks that Islam is a "religion of peace".

I am absolutely disgusted that Youtube has seen fit to deny the public access to this work. I'm going to try and find another site to publish my own videos on and delete my YouTube account as soon as possible.

Thank God I got to see it.

[P]ost the original link http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/ so everyone can see what kind of bullshit YouTube is pulling.

by RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH
Source: YouTube's New Logo?


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YouTube, Fitna: Hotbed of Terrorist "How-to" Videos Censors Geert Wilder's 'What the West Needs to Know'

[CORRECTION: YouTube pulled the video called “Islam: What the West Needs to Know”. OOps! Early morning and all that! But the principle still stands.]

YouTube, the Internet video channel that is famous for providing "how-to" videos for the aspiring terrorist on everything from making explosives to using radio-controlled cars to detonate bombs by remote control, has sometimes taken days to remove such material.

However, the Google-owned website wasted no such time in removing the video for Geert Wilder's film, "Islam: What the West Needs to Know".

That's quite alright with us. It's provided an urgent agenda for the day: finding the video and providing it outside the boundaries of YouTube.

In the meantime, we have a video trailer for the movie, which YouTube either overlooked or deigned "acceptable".



Hopefully, we'll have the video, or parts of it, later today.



Wilder's work would perhaps have fared better on YouTube had he included instructions for blowing up a synagogue or accused Muslims of regularly engaging in gay sex.

by Mondoreb
images: DBKP
Source: YouTube, Fitna: Hotbed of Terrorist "How-to" Videos Censors Geert Wilder's Fitna


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Vicki Iseman, John McCain Affair: The Mysterious EllaLohan

Who is the Mysterious Video Commenter?



More Mystery!
Vicki Iseman Bio Returns to Alcalde & Fay Website!

Who is EllaLohan?

How did she know about Vicki Iseman and John McCain before the New York Times published the story?

Very mysterious.

EllaLohan is the name of an apparent video fancier who--weeks before the New York Times released its story about Republican presidential candidate John McCain's alleged affair with Telcom lobbyist Vicki Iseman--was dropping hints of the affair in comments affixed to videos on sites scattered around the Internet.

Mysterious.

She hinted at the relationship between Iseman and McCain which is an " an angle not even Drudge took when it reported on the lobbying angle between Iseman and McCain months ago," as reported on Radar this evening.

The Radar piece tracks some EllaLohan comments:

Here's what EllaLohan wrote on a YouTube video posted by Senator McCain's campaign: "EllaLohan (4 weeks ago): John McCain plus lobbyist Vicki Iseman equals trouble for Republicans. Just ask the New York Times."

Then EllaLohan popped up elsewhere on YouTube with a similar comment for an anti-McCain video: "EllaLohan (1 month ago): i've heard from a bunch of my d.c. friends that mccain is doing special favors for a female lobbyist, who's returning the favor, if you catch my drift. this is the story that his lawyers are trying to prevent the new york times from writing. he's a crook just like the rest of the politicians."

Ella has some knowledge of the coming John McCain-Vicki Iseman story. The question is: How did she know?

The only info found on the mysterious EllaLohan's YouTube profile is her gender—female—and age—40.

Is she an insider who couldn't resist hinting at what she really knew or Drudge clicker with a keen ability to read between the lines? Or better still a Times employee dissatisfied with the paper's hold on the article? Attempts to reach EllaLohan have not been successful.

DBKP attempted to track down EllaLohan.

Attempts by DBKP to contact her have, so far, proved fruitless.

And that's kinda mysterious.



Ella also commented on a video by Electric Light Orchestra last week, but there was no politics in that one. She wrote, "It is the Sainte-Chapelle, a 13th Century royal chapel built in Paris under Louis IX."

Not so mysterious on that one.

But here's a several comments she posted--weeks before the story broke--that we were able to run down on videos sites.

On youTube (from a cached copy of the page):
EllaLohan Jan. 23 (7 hours ago)
John McCain plus lobbyist Vicki Iseman equals trouble for Republicans. Just ask the New York Times.

For this comment, Ella's comment received a -1 from another reader.

On video site, YouTobe

EllaLohan (20 hours ago)
Ask John McCain about his lobbyist "friend" Vicki Iseman. I dare you...

This comment is nowhere to be seen now, but is available in a cached copy.

Posted on a video site Video Momentum en video.es

> EllaLohan dijo el 26-01-08 a las 23:16:
Ask John McCain about his lobbyist "friend" Vicki Iseman. I dare you...

Posted on TechVidSite, on a video entitled, "Mitt Surfing"

EllaLohan (January 26, 2008 at 10:14 pm)
Ask John McCain about his lobbyist "friend" Vicki Iseman. I dare you...

The comment is now gone, but again, it can be seen on a cached copy of the site at the time of the comment.

At funingames:
( 2 weeks ago by EllaLohan). i've heard from a bunch of my dc friends that mccain is doing special favors for a female lobbyist, who's returning the favor, ...

More EllaLohan "insight":

TechVidSite.com - Web Ad: Mittsurfing (http://www.techvidsite.com/video/EgbQviUqndg)

EllaLohan (January 26, 2008 at 10:14 pm)
Ask John McCain about his lobbyist "friend" Vicki Iseman. I dare you...

So who is EllaLohan?

Is she someone who dug up the info on Iseman and her long-standing relationship with John McCain after reading a December 20 2007 Drudge report posting?

Is she Marilyn W. Thompson, the Times reporter on the Iseman-McCain story who was reportedly so upset at the Times sitting on the story that she left and is heading back to the Washington Post?

Is Thompson a video buff?

Is she interested in Mitt Romney windsurfing videos?

Will EllaLohan reveal more about how she knew what she knew when she knew it?

Will she leave the answer to that question posted on a video?

We will probably never know the answers or the identity of the mysterious EllaLohan.

And that's probably just the way she'd want it.

Vicki Iseman Alcalde & Fay website bio and picture update: The information on lobby firm, Alcalde & Fay's website about partner, Vicki Iseman, has now reappeared. The information disappeared from the A&F site shortly after the New York Times story appeared on the Times website. Numerous sites had screenshots of the bio and picture of Iseman, however. Another mysterious occurrence.

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by Mondoreb
images:
* hermansgallery
* quizilla
Sources:
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* funingames
* Anonymous Poster Had the goods on McCain, Times



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Google Map: Which Way is Hell?

"The Dark Side of Google Map"
--Some guy



Two minutes of chilling Google Map suspense and terror. A Classic of the Google Map genre.

by Mondoreb



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Ron Paul 30-second Video Contest

The Ron Paul campaign is looking for a few good videos. Well, one video to be exact, but the campaign is looking for a video to air during the CNN/Youtube Republican Debates on November 28.

Rules and details below. If you have any other questions, click on the link below.

Create a Ron Paul Video for the CNN/You Tube Debate

CNN has requested for the campaign to submit a 30 second ad to be used as a bumper when going in to commercial during the Nov 28 CNN/YouTube Debate. The national campaign has asked us, the Ron Paul Grassroots Supporters, to be the ones to develop the ad to be shown!
Please let everyone know as quickly as possible because we don't have much time! Here are the rules ... READ THESE VERY CAREFULLY:

1. Ad must be exactly 30 seconds; no more, no less.
2. Ad will be shown for the FIRST TIME EVER PUBLICLY during the debate. Any video uploaded to YouTube for public viewing or accidentally placed on the Internet will be disqualified.
3. Ad must be available in both NTSC-ready format (for TV viewing) and smaller YouTube-size for review.
4. NO copyright violations. Must use original music, video and images, or need to have permission. If permission received, documentation MUST be provided for review.
5. Ads will be sent to me no later than Friday, November 23 at 8:00 AM Eastern Time, no exceptions.
6. Upload the ad to YouTube in PRIVATE mode (make sure not to use public!), and share the ad with RonPaulAdCompetition *only*.

What happens after the ads are submitted?

* A group of marketing professionals will review the ads on Friday and narrow down to a group of 4-6.
* The final videos will be sent to the national campaign for their review on Saturday, November 24 at 12:00 AM (Midnight) Eastern Time.
* The national campaign will select one (1) video of the 4-6 finalists to send to CNN on Monday, November 26 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
* The selected ad will be shown during the CNN/YouTube debate on Nov. 28th!

Start rolling people it's time to make this happen! If you have questions email me at rp.ad.comp@gmail.com, or visit this Channel as updates occur.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

1) Add RonPaulAdCompetiton as a YouTube friend.
2) Upload the video to YouTube in PRIVATE mode. Select RonPaulAdCompetition as the only member of your contact list to have access to view the video.
3) Send an email to RonPaulAdCompetition or rp.ad.comp@gmail.com stating your video's name, link and your YouTube username.
4) Complete these steps no later than 8AM on Friday, 11/23.
5) The video can be switched to PUBLIC mode no earlier than the morning of 11/29.

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NOTE 1: CNN debate footage can be used. Footage of other debates (Fox, NBC) can be used if copyright permission is received. Anyone submitting a video with debate footage will need to demonstrate proof of permission. This is true of any copyright audio, video or images used.

Producers can use audio/video of existing RonPaul2008dotcom channel content, and of Ron Paul's Flickr account (www.flickr.com/ photos/ronpaul2008), but no high-quality versions are available. Make sure to give credit to the appropriate parties. See the "Update from the Campaign" bulletin below.

NOTE 2: Previously we had discussed about the need to have 4-6 seconds for the Federal Election Commission (FEC) required verbal disclaimer of "I'm Ron Paul and I approve of this message". No need to do so for this CNN version, just 30 full seconds to use.

I might suggest it would probably be a good idea to have 'RonPaul2008.com' displayed at some point during the video.

NOTE 3: The campaign has stated that any submitted video needs to be "significantly original to be considered". (In the email the word 'significantly' was italicized for emphasis.) Changing some animation, shuffling words, and changing phrases would not be considered a new video.

All the public will see will be the winner. It would be much more interesting to see ALL the videos submitted. And will the "Ron Paul Girl" enter? Surely.

Let the debates begin.

by Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn



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Anti-Hillary Video Gets over 1.4 million Hits on YouTube and Google Video

The above video has gotten over 1.4 million hits on Google video and (with it's other part) over a half-million hits on YouTube. It's an anti-Hillary Clinton video by Peter Paul. The rest of this breaking story by New York Daily News:

First came the Orwellian mash up YouTube video that portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. Then came a clip of her off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Now, a stinging 13-minute video by a bitter Clinton foe is finding its own Internet audience.

The clip, a preview of a longer film by one-time Clinton donor Peter Paul, has scored more than 1.4 million hits on Google Video and about 350,000 on YouTube during the past week. Its popularity has driven it to the top spot on Google Video over the past two weeks.

Paul is a Hollywood entrepreneur, former partner of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee and convicted felon who has sued the Clintons in connection with a celebrity-packed fundraiser he helped organize for her 2000 Senate race. A California appeals court earlier this month ruled that Sen. Clinton should be dismissed from the suit.

With the fascination about Hillary Clinton and the number who absolutely wouldn't vote for her under any circumstances, the video seems to be proof that there's an enthusiastic anti-Hillary audience among the viewers at Internet video sites.

by Mondoreb
& Little Baby Ginn



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SC Pipebomber Posted "How-To" Video On YouTube

by Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn

This is a tale of two wacky kids out for a night of fun and fireworks. They were stopped by the cops for speeding and were found, not far from a U.S. naval base with explosives and pipe bombs in their car. CAIR immediately issued a press release saying that they were victims of 'racial profiling'. And news soon came out that the pipe bombs were merely 'fireworks'. Just two fellows out for a joy ride and some fun.

Instead of being victims of racial profiling, it seems one of the suspects was a victim of his own private PR machine. News comes today that he issued a the YouTube video that was yanked for showing how to detonate a remote-control car.

From the Washington Post
MIAMI -- On a video posted to YouTube.com this summer, a man speaking Egyptian-accented Arabic instructed viewers how to convert a remote-controlled toy car into a bomb detonator.

The 12-minute lesson was referenced on the popular video-sharing Web site under the search terms "detonator from a distance," "suiciders" and "martyrdoms."

Like many in the jihad game, the man in the video was an martyrdom advocate--as long as martyrdom involved someone else.

A detonator could "save one who wants to be a martyr for another day, another battle," the man told viewers, according to federal prosecutors.

Last month, authorities identified the instructor as Mohamed Ahmed, 24, a graduate engineering student at the University of South Florida. An Egyptian national, he'd been stopped for speeding in South Carolina on Aug. 4, then arrested with a fellow student for allegedly carrying four pipe bombs in the trunk.

It's looking harder and harder to portray the video-making, bomb-instructing Mohamed as merely a man with a taste for fireworks and fast cars: a victim of the fascist police guilty of racial profiling. But one bets that that won't deter CAIR.

UPDATE:

From the Washington Post
The company [YouTube] would not say how long the detonator video was available on the site; how many times, if any, it was viewed; or whether the company took it down as part of normal policing based on viewer tips or whether it was removed at the FBI's request.

Some details from Blogs of War
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LET MY TRADEMARK GO! Google Goes After JewTube

by Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn
[pix: YouTube & JewTube]

NOTE: I had a sudden thought while composing this story: Death by 1000 Papercuts is on a Google server. I wonder how liberal their policies are? Well, I guess we'll find out.

Lemme get this straight: "Jew" or "Tube" or "You" can't be trademarked by themselves, but "YouTube" can be. And "JewTube" can't be. Because they rhyme?

From the story by CNET's Elinor Mills:

Apparently, Google doesn't have a sense of humor when it comes to puns related to its YouTube video site.

The company is preparing to challenge the use of the name "JewTube" for a Jewish-related video site on trademark grounds, according to a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which was reported on by WebProNews.

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