{"id":723,"date":"2008-09-22T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=723"},"modified":"2008-09-22T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:19:48","slug":"palin-smears-linked-to-obama-campaign-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Palin Smears Linked to Obama Campaign, DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypetjawa.mu.nu\/archives\/194057.php\" target=\"_blank\">This report from Rusty Shackleford<\/a> has been all the rage on the right side of the blogosphere today.&nbsp; It links viral video with false claims about Palin back to a PR firm that Obama and the DNC have used, though it was made to look like a grassroots effort.&nbsp; Most telling is that shortly after this scam was exposed by Shackleford, the videos came down and accounts were deleted.<\/p>\n<p>The connection to Obama himself may be tenuous, but there is a better link to his chief media strategist.&nbsp; It helps the the voiceover artist used is the same one used on other Obama ads.&nbsp; Yeah, it smacks of conspiracy theories, but Rusty lays it all out (with screenshots and video, especially for the stuff that has since disappeared).&nbsp; He reports, you decide.<\/p>\n<p>Is this something that only political junkies would even notice?&nbsp; Perhaps, but in the Internet world of MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube, campaigns have to sometimes answer charges that don&#8217;t make it into the mainstream media.&nbsp; Although in this case, the New York Times and a number of liberal pundits did pick up and run with the charge that Sarah Palin had been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a secessionist group.&nbsp; A big enough deal was made out of it that even FactCheck.org had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/sliming_palin.html\" target=\"_blank\">debunk the rumor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the &#8220;change&#8221; and &#8220;hope&#8221; and new kind of politics that Obama has promised his supporters?&nbsp; They may have been sold a bill of goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report from Rusty Shackleford has been all the rage on the right side of the blogosphere today.&nbsp; It links viral video with false claims about Palin back to a PR firm that Obama and the DNC have used, though it was made to look like a grassroots effort.&nbsp; Most telling is that shortly after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-media","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}