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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitco article points to Huntsman camp as being behind attack vid rather than Paul and supporters.
That video purported to be an ad or simply a vid from Paul and or his campaign and or his supporters melled like a dirty trick from the start.
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And in an analysis commissioned by Ron Pauls presidential campaign, the web consulting firm CanDo.com presents a different hypothesis: that supporters of Huntsmans campaign posted the video in an attempt to trigger a backlash against Paul.
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But at the very least, theres reason to doubt whether the video actually came from a Paul supporter. The YouTube account on which it was posted, NHLiberty4Paul, has no other videos attached to it and was created on the same day the video was posted. So was a corresponding Twitter account.
Paul fans also have seized on YouTube analytics that show Huntsmans campaign site, jon2012.com, linked to the video a day before it was picked up on Facebook, Gawker, RedState and elsewhere.
The CanDo.com analysis addresses those points and concludes: After researching the available evidence, we believe it is likely that the video came from a source within or closely tied to the Huntsman Campaign.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/01/paul-analysis-floats-huntsman-video-link-spokesman-109958.html
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rurallib
(62,346 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)This creates confusion, and ultimately benefits Karl's chosen candidate,the Mittster.
wandy
(3,539 posts)I don't old Karl and his overloards have picked their puppet as yet,, but,, can you realy belive Rove is going to stay out of this?
If he can stur up enough trouble here ore their, why not?
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)The ad will offend non-racists concering the content, while the content will hurt Hunstman among racists
St. Mitt will sit above the fray and laugh.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)That Huntsman was behind it... because it's a good way to get your name out there all the while attempting to hurt an opponent. If I were going to engage in dirty politics, this is what I'd do. That said, I'd also do it so they couldn't link it back to me but that's just me.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)That's what that article is basically still staying.
"Miller categorically denied that the former Utah governor or his staff had any involvement in producing or posting the video, calling that suggestion offensive. He pointed out that the Huntsman campaign website has a page that aggregates tweets related to Huntsman; if a user had been reading that Twitter feed at the time the video was posted and the user clicked on it, that could explain the referral."
It seems much more likely that an overzealous Paul supporter created the video. I don't think it came from the Paul campaign nor Huntsman.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)there's no way to know who made the video, but here's a couple of questions...
Do I believe Ron Paul is capable of doing this? Absolutely, no question about it.
Do I believe Jon Huntsman would make a video like this, using his own kids like this? Seems unlikely. Why would he do it? What would he gain from it? And again, his own kids?
Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)Paul gain?
Bonhomme Richard
(8,992 posts)He's closest to Romney in the political spectrum....Unless......he is after "on the fence" Paul voters that don't like Romney.
Convoluted.