OH THIS IS RICH! Latest Clinton Ad Uses Newspaper Clipping on TROOPERGATE!

[berni_mccoy]

They couldn't actually find a newspaper clipping that was titled what they wanted ("Obama Attacks Clinton gas tax plan"), so they made one up... but they attached the headline to a Troopergate article! LOL!

Here is a screen capture from the downloaded hi-res copy from Clinton's website:


I noticed because I wanted to read the article and several words/phrases were quite readable. Then I saw it: "Troopergate" not once, but twice, sticking out like a sore thumb! Then I could read several other phrases:

"had notarized a written statement signed by the governor's former communications director.. whether he has a private attorney to represent him in the Troopergate scandal."

" 'It is their job to do what they do'... said of investigators. 'It is my job to cooperate, which is exactly what I have done. I have answered all the questions over and over.'"

See for yourself. Here is a link to the ad from Clinton's website: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/182.aspx


Note: For those not familiar with Troopergate, see Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troopergate

Here is the summary:

Troopergate is the popular name of an alleged scandal involving allegations by two Arkansas state troopers that they arranged sexual liaisons for then-governor Bill Clinton. The allegations by state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry were first reported by David Brock in the American Spectator in 1993. The story mentioned a woman named Paula, a reference to Paula Jones.

[Teaser]

1. some kind of false flag op?

This doesn't make any sense....

[berni_mccoy]

4. I have NO idea why the Clinton ad makers would do this. It's absolutely insane.

[hokies4ever]

126. I hope someone in MSM calls her out on this

This is utterly despicable. Is grossly misleading and Hillary's campaign should have their feet held to the fire a little bit for this one.

[PoliticalAmazon]

209. This looks like a job for SUPER-OLBERMANN!! n/t

[rust1d]

140. The Original Article is here

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/18/2007-12-18_gov_spitzer_aides_mum_on_private_lawyer_-3.html

ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer and his aides won't tell New Yorkers whether he has a private attorney to represent him in the Troopergate scandal.

At a tense press conference at the state Capitol on Monday, Spitzer also refused to discuss the parallel probes by the Albany district attorney's office and the state Public Integrity Commission, insisting, "I have answered all these questions at length."

"Obviously, we are cooperating fully," he said.

"It is their job to do what they do," Spitzer said of investigators. "It is my job to cooperate, which is exactly what I have done. I have answered all the questions, over and over."

But Senate Investigations Committee Chairman George Winner (R-Elmira) said the governor was engaging in "more stonewalling" by refusing to tell the public whether he has retained a private attorney.

"This man is incapable of leveling with anyone," added Winner, whose committee has met stiff resistance from the administration on its subpoenas seeking e-mails and other documents relating to the effort by Spitzer aides to discredit Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno.

Spitzer did acknowledge, as reported in yesterday's Daily News, that his office received a new subpoena from Albany County District Attorney David Soares in the reopened investigation into the scandal.

Meanwhile, The News learned that the administration's chief counsel, David Nocenti, a witness in the Troopergate affair, has hired Albany lawyer Peter Moschetti, and another high-ranking Spitzer cabinet member, Sean Patrick Maloney, has retained Manhattan lawyer Bart Schwartz.

[Muttocracy]

164. yep, charlie picked that up downthread yesterday. nt

[PoliticalAmazon]

211. Mort Sahl said something interesting on KO the other night....

They were talking about figuring out why people do things (I think that was the context). Mort Sahl said:

(loose quote) "Well, sometimes you have to look at it another way. Bill Clinton makes all these gaffes on the campaign traal, and people ask, "He wants his wife to be president, why does he make so many blunders that hurt her chances?" What you have to do is step back and ask, is what I assume he really wants--is that REALLY what HE wants?"

When we open our minds to the possibility that what someon should be really wanting may not be what he really wants, Bill's blunders on the campaign trail start to make sense.

Using a tropergate article is such a blunder, and exactly one of th issues the Clintons DON'T want brought up.

So we ask ourselves, "Obviously the Clinton staffer who put up that article really wants Clinton to win. So why would they make such a bonehead mistake?" What we need to do is step back and ask ourselves, "WHatI assume the Clinton staffer really wants, is that REALLY what HE/SHE wants?

So if we throw aside the assumption and ask ourselves "Is what we think the staffer wants REALLY what HE/SHE wants, we can see that perhaps it isn't what the staffer wants. Perhaps this staffer wants the campaign over, and is nuding it along by an "oops" mistake.

[VolcanoJen]

85. Seems false-flag all the way to me

Damned interesting!!!

[krkaufman]

124. Or maybe the grunts actually making the video ...

... are kinda tired of Hillary's campaign, too, and tried to slip one by.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. You found that? WOW! Whoever did that is going to get in big trouble. No way it was an accident.

[GarbagemanLB]

3. They must have some seriously stupid people working in their media department...

[KittyWampus]

6. it's like subliminal advertising FOR OBAMA!

:rofl:

[papau]

184. OBAMA Smearing Clinton - not a surprise

[cui bono]

187. It's a CLINTON ad. Made by the CLINTON campaign.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

Do you hurt yourself much stretching that far?

:eyes:

[berni_mccoy]

189. Being that confused about it, I wonder if he works on the Clinton Ad Team...

:rofl:

[cui bono]

190. I figured I better reply to him/her since apparently the rest of DU has them on ignore.

;)

[lakercub]

195. uh....what?

Did you see which side actually produced the ad?
Wow...

[Ian David]

24. Why do you assume it was a MISTAKE?

The video every SuperDelegate should see
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/07/2008 08:20:00 PM ET · Link
Discuss this post here: Make a comment · reddit · FARK · Digg It!

CBS News tonight was brutal to Hillary. It compiled a bunch of the press coverage - again, brutal. Worst of all, they quote one of Hillary's own top strategists who says he told her (and then told the media he told her - nice) "you can't win this nomination." I think this last point is the most significant. Hillary's own senior staff is leaking information to the media to sabotage her campaign. That's how bad things have gotten, that's how bad she has gotten. It's yet another sign that she needs an intervention, fast.

More:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/video-every-superdelegate-should-see.html

[caligirl]

82. the whole team there has been fed up for along time_this is pay back from p'ssd off staffers.

[MidwestTransplant]

95. Good point. Pissed off staffers who are owed money.

[Ian_rd]

142. Bingo. It's kind of like spitting in your boss' coffee. She owes them.

[krkaufman]

125. That's my thinking. Someone disgruntled or just annoyed. n/t

[charlie]

Yoiks

Somebody is SO gonna be fired. What a botch.

(Just means they'll get a week or two head start over everyone else in their job search)

[acquiesce4ever]

132. DOESN'T EVERYONE SEE WHAT ELSE IT SAYS.

...above the article, it says "Clinton aides admit it won't do much for you but would help her politically"

I've done some video editing and I know how deliverate everything is. There is no way any video editor would put in the troopergate article on accident, so i figured there were other pro-Obama parts to the Ad.

[acquiesce4ever]

133. ALSO. . .

It says "The Obama Plan: Tax Oil Companies" and "Invest In (then gets cut off by article)". We have ourselves not just an anti-clinton video editor, but a pro-Obama video editor!

[suffragette]

180. Nice catches. Including this text and the other one about Clinton's

aides comments completely undercuts her own points.
The Troopergate cut and paste is the coup de grâce.

[berni_mccoy]

146. Yes, I've noticed that now. Several posters at Kos have noticed that as well as some

in this thread. I can no longer edit the original entry here (rules of posting threads here).

[SallyMander]

167. LOL!!! Here's a screen cap:

:rofl:

[electron_blue]

173. wth??

[Andy823]

5. Just when you think

They can't get any crazier, they show us they can! :crazy:

[Frumious B]

14. Somebody must be disgruntled.

Maybe he/she sees the campaign going down the tubes, the debt piled up and suspects that he/she might have a hard time cashing that next paycheck if it actually ever comes and slipped that graphic in as sort of a middle finger to the campaign.

[Heather MC]

101. I don't know who did it, but imagine you are a black person working on her...

campaign and you find out that she said "hard working white americans...."
Also her campaign is set up in Wash DC, DC is 90% Black, and big time Obama supporters
I am thinking some of her team may have jumped ship. tisk tisk tisk

[Stephanie]

119. I find your post offensive.

Her staff are doing the best job they can, under tryng circumstances, and regardless of race.

[mod mom]

169. I too find your comment offensive. You don't have to be black to be offended by Hillary's

comment. I was deeply offended by it

[Ian David]

7. The only possible answer is that Hillary's own campaign staff is trying to sabotage her.

Or maybe someone from their advertising firm.

Or both.

[BlooInBloo]

8. Absolutely insane. I've saved the QT of it, since they're sure to change it.

[berni_mccoy]

9. Yep, I've downloaded it as well. Definitely a keeper!

[MagickMuffin]

137. How did you save it in QT?.?.?

EDIT:...........I JUST FOUND THE QT LINK:dunce:

[stillcool]

10. somebody didn't get paid...

[powergirl]

11. They could have put that headline over some NASCAR results

or something. Seriously, we can't have these folks at the Whitehouse. Are they going to print out treaties on the back of the Comics section???

[KSinTX]

117. I f***ing hate you right now

:rofl: True spewage alert. Thanks - Best of Thread

[berni_mccoy]

120. LOL!

[parasim]

12. "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message."

Really? She approved that? Wow.

Amazing find there. Is that running on television yet?

amazing...

[PM7nj]

13. LOL! This is better than John McCain in the Fox logo! nt

[AlinPA]

15. Wow! How in the hell did that happen? Why? They are screwed up in that campaign. nt

[KittyWampus]

16. please, someone send this to Olbermann

[MadBadger]

17. Fire up the emails

KO, Dan Abrams, Jack Cafferty

[Cha]

73. Jon Stewart,

Stephen Colbert.

[kevinmc]

18. HA HA ......another example of how incompetent that campaign has been run n/t

[Danger Mouse]

19. Disgruntled worker.

[NightWatcher]

20. I thought this was complete BS....till I watched it. Ready from Day One- my ass

somebody please tell me that this info got sent to Keith, Randi or any other newsies that could have us laughing all day long

[quantass]

21. How weird. The Clinton's continue to deceive. But why that article from Bill's past?

[Muttocracy]

61. It's Spitzer's Troopergate scandal with Joe Bruno - still weird. nt

[gateley]

89. At least paste the fake headline on an article ABOUT the gas tax!

Pretty shoddy.

Good catch, JIOOU!

EDIT to add that it may not be an intentional slam against Bill/The Clintons, but it's still embarrassingly STUPID.

[Muttocracy]

94. charlie found the real article below - Troopergate made me think of Spitzer 1st

since I'm in NY and that was just last year.

[whistler162]

115. Even if its Bruno's gas tax proposal!

[Jackpine Radical]

166. That's where my mind went immediately on hearing "Troopergate" too.

Followed immediately by "WTF??"

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. Is someone trying to demolish any chances, which are none

From the inside of her campaign??

This is unreal....... Wow!

[libnnc]

23. oh man that's funny...and weird...and sad all at the same time.

:wow:

[yourguide]

Amazing! K & R

[mcctatas]

25. That's insane!!!!

I wonder how they will turn this into Obama's fault;)

[cui bono]

188. There's no "how" here but believe it or not...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5930322&mesg_id=5937505

[mcctatas]

197. ....

:spray: I knew it wouldn't be long;)

[ProSense]

26. Proof

one of the worst campaigns ever. I thought the non-existent gun was bad.

Yikes!

[City Lights]

27. Oh dear, if I hadn't seen that with my own eyes I never would have

believed it.

:wtf:

Great catch! :toast:

[berni_mccoy]

32. Me too. I could not believe it at first.

Thanks.

[charlie]

28. Cripes

It's an article on Eliot Spitzer!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/18/2007-12-18_gov_spitzer_aides_mum_on_private_lawyer_-3.html

Looks like someone grabbed the first text at hand and pasted it in. And was too dumb to realize that "Troopergate" takes on a special piquancy when applied to a Clinton. Whatta maroon.

[BlooInBloo]

38. Nice find!

[DemsUnited]

39. GReat find. How stupid to make up a fake newspaper article,

but to use an Eliot Spitzer sex scandal article, criminally stupid.

And to use an Eliot Spitzer sex scandal article with the words Troopergate in it not once but twice, well that's just weird, crazy, and kind of sad.

[Muttocracy]

46. it's not the sex scandal - it's Spitzer going after Bruno, his legislative nemesis. Still... nt

[DemsUnited]

54. Thanks for the correction. That makes it a little less weird, I guess. Well maybe not.

No. It's still just mind-boggling.

[Muttocracy]

59. It's still weird given the Clintons' own Troopergate and sex scandals and lawsuits. nt

[berni_mccoy]

111. Yes. ANYTHING would have been better copy under that headline.

[KSinTX]

118. Not to mention the mental link to NY and its pols

Dang, that's just sad all around :(

[berni_mccoy]

40. Thanks for the correction. That's EXACTLY the article. Good match-up!

[Muttocracy]

55. You know what would be even cooler? Can anyone find the original newspaper article?

They've clearly done some weird editing or folding of the original. Is there a website where you can find a .pdf or image of the original page? Or anyone at a library with it on file? It's only 5 months old, might be around somewhere?

[charlie]

58. Haw!

You're the one with the eagle eye, bernie. Thanks for the chuckle!

If you put this on your journal and submit it to Digg, it'll be front page in no time. They eat stuff like this up. And there's a dearth of Hillary fans over there.

[stillcool]

45. That's even weirder!

[gateley]

87. So what if it is about Spitzer? If they went to the trouble to make up the headline,

why not just paste it over an article at least dealing with the gas tax subject?

It's another indication that her campaign isn't as sharp as it should be.

[gateley]

104. "...a special piquancy..." LOVE it! nt

[DemsUnited]

29. Oh my, you're right! Is this ad on air or just a web ad?

This is weird, weird, weird!!!

And really obvious once you point it out. Was it hacked? I just can't imagine Clinton people doing this deliberately or even stupidly.

Again, oh my.

[berni_mccoy]

33. Both on air and on web.

[DemsUnited]

48. And a third time I say, Oh My. This is just bizarre.

[merh]

30. Let me see if I have this right.

They took a newspaper article on troopergate and redacted the original headline to read "Obama attacks Clinton's gas tax plan" and used it in the ad for candidate Clinton?

Is that some odd subliminal message the ad folks were trying to get out there?

How will Hillary and her supporters try to blame this one on Obama?

[Muttocracy]

31. but is that Spitzer's Troopergate? It mentions Albany and Manhattan

Maybe they were trying to make it look like NY Times?

[Muttocracy]

36. actually, 2nd column looks like they patched over Spitzer's name (with zer) nt

[KittyWampus]

37. It's definately from Spitzer. However, Clinton's cock initiated the "Troopergate" term

not the best association.

[yourguide]

52. Oh drat...you are probably correct.

[Garbo 2004]

34. Charlie, post 28 got it right: it's Spitzer's Troopergate, but still...considering Bill's TG....n/t

[Adelante]

35. Will this primary season get any loonier?

:D

[KittyWampus]

44. at this point, I'm almost glad Hillary is imploding. It's comic gold.

[NewHampshireDem]

41. Wow ... just ... Wow.

I did not believe it myself until I saw the video. Yes, there it is, about 1/3 of the way through.

I've said it before, and I hope I don't have to say it again, someone please make her stop while she still has a shred of dignity left.

On another note: I wonder how all those folks in the commercial feel about HRC now that they aren't getting their 30 pieces ... I mean, 30 dollars. Probably like this:

[berni_mccoy]

47. LOL!

[NewHampshireDem]

60. Thanks for the LOL!

And I know that you and I are really a little sad about it too. She made people believe she was going to do it--hell the ad even says she'll 'fight' for it!--she made them believe it was important to do, and now that PA is past ... oops! Poof! Off to find the next pander.

[sktmax]

42. OH....MY....GOD!!!

[BlooInBloo]

43. With that minor mystery solved: So basically THERE IS NO SUCH HEADLINED ARTICLE....

The Clinton campaign is fabricating. And in a way that really makes them look stupid.

[Ichingcarpenter]

57. Spitzer was a Clinton supporter and super delegate for her also

The staff on the Clinton campaign must be tired, discouraged or just
wanting to self destruct.

[City Lights]

63. There actually is an AP article with that title...

...making the whole thing even odder.

Obama attacks Clinton's gas tax plan

By DAVID ESPO and BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writers Sat May 3, 4:36 PM ET

INDIANAPOLIS - Broadening his attack, Barack Obama said Saturday that Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for a summertime break from the federal gasoline tax symbolizes a candidacy consisting of "phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems."

Not so, the former first lady told a campaign audience as the next round of primaries approached. Obama is "attacking my plan to try to get you some kind of break this summer," she said.

Locked in a Democratic presidential race for the ages, Clinton and Obama campaigned across Indiana and North Carolina at the same time they competed in Guam's caucuses and added to their convention delegate totals in several states.

In all, four delegates were at stake in Guam half a world away from the U.S. mainland. But given the closeness of the race, both candidates made an effort to win.

more... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_el_pr/democrats

[DemsUnited]

66. You're right! Why in the world wouldn't they just use the original AP

article??

[slinkerwink]

92. that;s my question too. It could've been a simple mistake.

[bluescribbler]

161. They can't use the original article

These words, Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for a summertime break from the federal gasoline tax symbolizes a candidacy consisting of "phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems."
won't do Clinton any favors. Voters might actually find some validity in that idea. :shrug:

[BlooInBloo]

67. So why'd they fake it??? (Good find!)

[Muttocracy]

68. oh, that's another good find. thanks. nt

[Muttocracy]

108. I guess that "phony ideas" wouldn't look so great on TV, eh?

[City Lights]

145. Righto. So they ditched "phoney ideas" for "Troopergate."

Who did it and why...wonder if we'll find out.

[Tatiana]

49. You. Cannot. Make. This. $hit. Up.

Interesting find, berni...

[yourguide]

50. Go post that on KOS and post the link...

This is great!

[Muttocracy]

51. Hey - Scandal you can Xerox! nt

[Garbo 2004]

53. LOL

:spray:

[yourguide]

56. Def NY troopergate...

references Sean Patrick Maloney

[CoffeeCat]

62. Someone got lazy...

I'm sure the orders were to make that look like a legitimate newspaper article.

So, they lifted the headline from a real article and pasted in their own.

Why on earth didn't this person just write a short article--which would take about 10 minutes, and use
a font that looks like newspaper copy?

Very, very bizarre!

The Spitzer story wasn't even in the headlines during the Indiana primary, so whomever did this had
to go back weeks for that Spitzer article. Really weird.

Makes you wonder if it wasn't deliberate.

[Muttocracy]

65. don't layout programs have that fake Latin text to use to fill in

"Ipsum dolor.." something or other.

had they left that, it would have been lazy, but easy to say, "oops, we sent the early layout draft by accident!"

Instead, it's a mangled/folded/slightly edited real article on a Spitzer scandal from 2007!

[BlooInBloo]

70. Lorem ipsum dolor! lolol! Haven't thought about Pagemaker in decades.

[Muttocracy]

74. that's it! It's been so long since I took Latin

I can't remember the translation anymore. But yes, the person on our staff who drafts the newsletter layout uses one of those programs.

[BlooInBloo]

79. "dolor" ia pain or hurt, I believe, but that's all of those words I know...

It's tough with Latin and Greek, because all of the declensions can make cognates look like anything but.

[Muttocracy]

80. oh, here's a whole website about it

http://www.lipsum.com/

Whoops, aren't we off-topic!

[BlooInBloo]

81. Awesome - Cicero! Heh - it's all good if it's in the interests of knowledge - thanks!

[goletian]

64. thats actually something to do with eliot spitzer i think

[madrchsod]

69. she`s ready on day one......god are these guys dumb

[Muttocracy]

72. I wonder if they're as expensive as Mark Penn? maybe they couldn't afford to buy a copy of the paper

[arcos]

71. This is amazing...

:rofl:

[goletian]

75. GOV SPITZER, AIDES MUM ON PRIVATE LAWYER HIRE IN TROOPERGATE SCANDAL

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/18/2007-12-18_gov_spitzer_aides_mum_on_private_lawyer_-3.html

ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer and his aides won't tell New Yorkers whether he has a private attorney to represent him in the Troopergate scandal.

At a tense press conference at the state Capitol on Monday, Spitzer also refused to discuss the parallel probes by the Albany district attorney's office and the state Public Integrity Commission, insisting, "I have answered all these questions at length."

"Obviously, we are cooperating fully," he said.

"It is their job to do what they do," Spitzer said of investigators. "It is my job to cooperate, which is exactly what I have done. I have answered all the questions, over and over."

But Senate Investigations Committee Chairman George Winner (R-Elmira) said the governor was engaging in "more stonewalling" by refusing to tell the public whether he has retained a private attorney.

"This man is incapable of leveling with anyone," added Winner, whose committee has met stiff resistance from the administration on its subpoenas seeking e-mails and other documents relating to the effort by Spitzer aides to discredit Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno.

Spitzer did acknowledge, as reported in yesterday's Daily News, that his office received a new subpoena from Albany County District Attorney David Soares in the reopened investigation into the scandal.

Meanwhile, The News learned that the administration's chief counsel, David Nocenti, a witness in the Troopergate affair, has hired Albany lawyer Peter Moschetti, and another high-ranking Spitzer cabinet member, Sean Patrick Maloney, has retained Manhattan lawyer Bart Schwartz.

Nocenti had notarized a written statement signed by Darren Dopp, the governor's former communications director. Sources say Soares is trying to determine if Dopp has made false statements.

Spitzer, a former criminal prosecutor, balked at releasing a copy of the subpoena that Soares directed to his administration, saying, "I'm not sure what the rules are with respect to that."

Asked why Spitzer refuses to say whether he has a lawyer, the governor's spokesman, Errol Cockfield, said, "It would be inappropriate to comment while there are ongoing investigations."

[Muttocracy]

78. yep, someone caught it upthread - and also that the headline is real , but pasted to the text! nt

[Muttocracy]

76. Was NY Daily News the one that ran the "Toast" front page? Or was that NY Post? nt

[lisa58]

86. The Post

[Muttocracy]

90. thanks - I'm sure all the NY papers will be on it now that it's here and on blogs mentioned below nt

[IsItJustMe]

77. Great catch. I would have never noticed that fine print.

[Muttocracy]

83. Google search for troopergate spitzer clinton obama has you on the front page!

I think you may well be the first to catch this!

[Terri S]

84. Change you can't even xerox right!

Jeez, will someone please put that campaign out of its misery! I can't wait to hear them spin this one.

[caligirl]

88. Berni your now posted in a diary at Kos_ nice set of eyes there Berni.

And good work too. does the Clinton team seem dysfunctional or just unpaid.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/11/22738/6747/648/513964

[Muttocracy]

100. there's an insightful comment over there going over the skips and gaps

by iampunha on Sun May 11, 2008 at 08:12:26 PM PDT

[berni_mccoy]

107. LOL Someone posted this Gem: "I guess it's hard to photoshop under sniper fire."

[skyounkin]

112. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHH- HAHAA- HAHHAHH

n/t........LMAO

[Lady-Damai]

134. Ahahahahahahahahahaha! n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

174. Incoming! ROFL!

:rofl:

[WillyT]

Big K & R !!!

:kick:

[dchill]

91. "Obama attacks Clinton's gas tax plan"

Seems to me that after last Tuesday's results, it's apparent that 65% of Democrats "approve this message," anyway. Why are they wasting money on that?

:shrug:

[bigbrother05]

93. ...

:popcorn:

[JBoy]

96. K&R. This is so freaking bizarre. I want to know the story behind the story...

[grantcart]

97. Bernie climbs the wall for a great

I suspect that we are going to find on May 21st some folks weren't getting paid

[berni_mccoy]

105. ROFLMAO! Thanks Grant!

[Frustratedlady]

98. "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message." is gonna sting.

If she loses her temper like she reportedly does, there are going to be fireworks to end Mother's Day.

I imagine they changed Spitzer to withzer to keep from having lawsuits? With the above statement, I suppose she can't very well sue whoever did this.

Incredible.

[Muttocracy]

99. I'm guessing Spitzer's name would have jumped right out under the headline

But they left Troopergate (anyone in political campaigns should have known about BOTH Troopergates), and a Google search of the other names leads right to the Spitzer story, and for that matter, as the OP points out, the text skips in parts. So this isn't just glueing the correct headline to the wrong text - something more involved at work!

And yeah, that approval message at the end :o

[slinkerwink]

110. man......this is too rich

[Ms. Toad]

152. They also changed the first line

The original article: "Nocenti had notarized" changed to "Noc the had notarized"

I noticed that before I noticed Spitzer since I started to try to read the article and it made no sense.

The article has not only been edited, but has been rearranged in the video. The "Nocenti had notarized" sentence appears in the middle of the original article - not the first sentence. In the original article it also appears after the text that is column 2 of the video article. The last line of the video article is also identical to the first - except that they didn't edit Nocenti's name in the second copy of that line.

[FatDave]

170. So then...

They specifically put the word "troopergate" as the first word of the third column? It's actually in a very noticeable position.

[Ms. Toad]

204. Don't know about that - but a long list of changes

Here is a list of the changes I found that were made to the original article http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/18/2007-12-18_gov_spitzer_aides_mum_on_private_lawyer_-3.html (in addition to the title):

1. The byline, date, city, and first nine words of the article were replaced by the first sentence of the 9th paragraph of the original article, and made to appear as if the first sentence of 9th paragraph and the last 14 words of the first sentence of the 1st paragraph were all one paragraph.

2. Within the first (new) paragraph: Replaced “Nocenti had” with “Noc the had.”

3. Within the first (new) paragraph: Replaced “Darren” with “scandal.”

4. Within the first (new) paragraph: Replaced “Dopp” had with “Dthe.”

5. Within the first paragraph in the second column: Replaced “Spitzer” with “withzer.”

6. Within the first paragraph of the third column: Replaced “Moschetti” with “questions.”

7. Within the first paragraph of the third column: Replaced “Spitzer” with “member.”

8. Within the first paragraph of the third column: Replaced “Schwartz” with “member.”

Since don’t have a copy of the printed version of the original article, I can’t tell if the columns were rearranged to place Troopergate prominently at the bottom of the first column and the top of the third column, or whether they appeared that way originally.

This hack job was no accident!

[LiberalAndProud]

102. If I were Hillary, I wouldn't pay for the production work

on this ad. It's deeply flawed.

[bluescribbler]

163. She won't pay for it

She can't afford it. She's $20,000,000 in debt.

[phrigndumass]

103. Good eyes, berni!

:kick: :thumbsup:

[berni_mccoy]

113. Thanks phrign! I appreciate all the hard work you've been doing too!

:toast:

[Scurrilous]

106. Good catch.

K & R :thumbsup:

[mikiturner]

109. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have believed it

Good lord.

[autorank]

114. "Disgruntled employee" k*r

This is very clever. That's a hard image to work with in terms of getting the print clear. It's still there so they've got fewer supporters here than I'd thought they did.

What a riot. This qualifies either for the "Dumb & Dumber" award or sends a message that there are more staffers pissed off and more of this to come.

[berni_mccoy]

116. Several posters on Kos have noted

That the Ad people had to work to get the text that they did. They edited the original article and covered up Spitzer's name. Several have noted that they didn't want to use the REAL Gas Tax article with the matching headline because it makes Obama look good. I have no idea what the Ad maker's intent was, but whatever it was, Clinton's Campaign looks completely stupid in the end.

[caligirl]

127. failed to give proper credit(attribution as per copyright)NYDaily News

or AP could potentially sue for plagerism. They've edited the article some.

[berni_mccoy]

147. They could. I don't know why... it's self inflicted damage at this point.

I can't imaging the people at AP wanting to sue after the laugh they have.

[autorank]

128. That's interesting

You're right about the work. It was intentional. When I first saw "troopergate" I laughed very hard
since I assumed it was the Arkansas "troopergate" - but this will do.

I think that "we" should take every opportunity to mess with "them" in the media - sneak the truth in,
commit acts of DADA activism, treat the propaganda machine to some of its own tricks.

This was a great find, congrats!

[Renew Deal]

121. On the list of most bizarre shit I've ever seen, this is up there.

Maybe top 3.

[berni_mccoy]

122. Yes, indeed.

[redstate_democrat]

123. These people are stupid. I would have never believed she would run such a bastardized campaign

So much for "ready on day one".

[quantass]

129. How does one email Chuck Todd and KO about this story..they will have it on the news tomorrow!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

130. Why do

you mean Obama supporters keep picking on Hillary?

Could it be because of shit like this??????

[quantass]

131. Has anyone emailed: Cafferty, Dan Abrams, KO, Jon Stewart, Colbert and others yet? Hope so!

[Prophet 451]

135. WTF?

Not only do they use dummy copy from one of the Clinton scandals but they use the one that was largely invented (David Brock goes into great detail in his mea culpa about how Troopergate was unverified rumour and complete fabrication).

This is deranged.

[Muttocracy]

165. it's actually Spitzer's Troopergate, but that just adds another level of bizarre. nt

[jordi_fanclub]

136. Self-deleted

[blogslut]

138. Ha!

Graphic designers are notoriously bad spellers. They're not illiterate but they tend to think in pictures as opposed to words.

My guess is the designer had that Spitzer story saved as a screen grab and named it something innocuous like "storytext". Then, when it came time to make this video, the text was cropped and pasted into the faux article graphic. He/She was likely more concerned with re-creating authenticity than rendering that text unreadable.

Clueless and tin-eared. Gotta love Team Hillary.

[MJJP21]

139. So what?

It doesn't matter whats on her website. The people voting for her probably don't have computers anyway and will never see it.

[berni_mccoy]

143. Um. It's a T.V. ad to boot. And, the text is quite visible in HD.

[Perry Logan]

141. URGENT: Read "Blinded by the Right," by David Brock. Brock wrote the Troopergate story.

Democrats have got to realize that all the stuff about Bill Clinton was made up!

Every day at DU, I see Democrats repeating lies that were perpetrated against the Clintons in the 90's. They sound like so many Republicans, repeating disinformation as fact.

A lot of the anti-Clintonism we see at DU is based on a multimillion-dollar smear campaign which happened during the 90's. This means that the Republicans are still hurting us--years after the fact.

I hate to see Democrats dissing their own people, based on lies the Republicans made up. David Brock's "Blinded by the Right," and another book, "The Hunting of the President" (also a documentary movie) can help clear your mind of this damaging disinformation.

David Brock is the guy who made up the Troopergate story. He was hired to make up lies about the Clintons. He then had a change of heart, and wrote "Blinded by the Light" as an expose of the Right's smear campaign against Bill Clinton and his family.

Brock now works with "Media Matters," an excellent site that debunks corporate media distortions:
http://mediamatters.org/

[greiner3]

148. Sorry Perry;

Missed again. Troopergate was not discussed here as to it's truth/inaccuracies; however, it was brought up because someone in the Clinton camp used it as part of a multimedia campaign ad attack that backfired.

[berni_mccoy]

149. No one is saying Troopergate is valid. You are missing the point of the post.

The post is about Clinton's campaign inflicting a nearly fatal wound on themselves for no good reason.

Someone in the Ad group is completely upset with the campaign. This was intentional damage done by an internal member of the team.

[Teaser]

156. Not the same "troopergate"

Yes, there has been more than one. This is Eliot Spitzer's bad day.

[Grinchie]

182. Sorry Perry, but history now shows how plausible Troopergate was

After Monica Lewinsky, and Bill Clinton's careful, Attorney Generalesquw "What your Definition of "is" is, makes me tend to be skeptical about how horribly smeared the Clintons were. There were a great many more allegations which were many times more serious than Troopergate for the Clintons. The links to Money Laundering, BCCI, the takeover of the Arkansas Attorney General's office by none other than Blill Clinton, and the now familiar abilty to quash legal agencies from investigating crimes by not allowing them to pursue the evidence.

The Clinton's are a powerful force, but that power comes solely from the backing of Corporate fund in order to make money. They care nothing for the earth or the common american.

All of that smells a lot like what the Bush administration and his Alberto Gonzales debacle. Bush merely picked up and flew with the mechanisms that Bill Clinton put in place.

I used to support the Clintons a long time ago, before our country was contaminated by his Corporate cronies implanted into APHIS, the USDA, and the SEC.

I am really looking forward to the court case between Peter Paul and Hilary Clinton, which is so hush hush, one would think this landmark case did not exist.

[jazzjunkysue]

144. This is what happens when you stop paying Karl Rove's fees: The Elves

take over, and it's not pretty.

This is too good to be true.

[Vote4Change]

150. SWEET!

Looks like Clinton staffers are starting to wise up and defect to Obama!!

[HereSince1628]

151. Last time I fell into the "white n*****" thing without thinking... so are there any

additional possibilities to explain this?

Is the only possibility that a campaign employee was authorized to place this on the site and that the campaign knowingly purchased an ad that includes a fabricated picture of a newspaper clip?

[berni_mccoy]

153. It's pretty much assured that this came from team Clinton. Both her hi-res version

downloadable from the website and the YouTube version have the Troopergate visible in the text.

As one Video Editor, adrian pan, on Kos Noted (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/11/22738/6747/648/513964) :

I'm a video editor, and there is no question the video editors, for whatever purpose, tried to sabotage the ad. But that's not the main problem.
These ads, upon completion, are viewed and Oked by numerous most senior of her staff, and likely including Hillary herself. It's incomprehensible these 2 huge materialistic errors would slip their eye. We're not talking a shitty youtube preview here. The ad was previewed and watched at HD resolution on a big widescreen monitor....
Unbelievable

[HereSince1628]

154. Amazingly strange that it got all the way to their website.

What's up with the folks in charge at that campaign?

[berni_mccoy]

155. Ready On Day One... NOT. Thoroughly Vetted... NOT.

Total Bush-level Incompetence... YEP.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

157. the phrase "you're doing a heck of a job, Brownie" comes to mind

this is symbolic of the entire campaign.

It was assumed that she wouldn't have to work for the nomination,
so competence wasn't a key factor in her campaign.

[King Coal]

186. I think you mean, "You're doing a heck of a job, Bernie".

[jefferson_dem]

158. Politico has now picked up the story.

---> http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Subliminnable.html

Well done, Berni!

[jazzjunkysue]

175. It's got legs!

:popcorn:

[berni_mccoy]

176. Thanks jefferson_dem. Ben's Title: Subliminnable. *snicker*

With that title, he's equating this gaffe with Bush's linguistic ineptitude.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

159. hee hee LOL that IS funny

oh my goodness!

[snooper2]

160. This is fucking funny...

How long till they pull it...they are so inept it will probably be a week :rofl:

[mystieus]

162. Obviously someone in her campaign wants all this to end...

[Renew Deal]

168. If you are a Digg member, digg this up...

http://digg.com/politics/Latest_Clinton_Ad_Uses_Newspaper_Clipping_on_TROOPERGATE

[WillyToad]

171. Ironically , the troopers confessed that they lied about the whole thing...

They admitted that they made up the whole, 'a girl named Paula' story and were paid by the right to do so.

It was only a matter of time before the Obama smear machine latched onto this Ken Starr talking point.

[cui bono]

191. It's a CLINTON ad. Made by the CLINTON campaign.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

Too much effort for you to actually read the OP and grasp its meaning?

:eyes:

[lakercub]

203. It was the Hillary slime machine

they just don't have very good aim

[Turn CO Blue]

172. Nice work, Berni! This will go blogoglobal by mid-morning

Your find has already been diaried on DailyKos and it's on the Rec List there.

<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/11/22738/6747/648/513964>

[SharonRB]

177. This is insane

Why in the world would someone use that article? Almost sounds like someone did it on purpose and thought they were being funny. KO should have a good time with this if he finds out about it.

:rofl:

[HereSince1628]

178. Why? A colleague suggested to me that all scenes whether real or created depict

a favorable message for the advertiser.

I'm guessing this looked favorable to the campaign and therefore didn't get any close scrutiny.

[sktmax]

179. Now on Google

you can now google something like: clinton ad troopergate

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/11/22738/6747/648/513964
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38523-oops-clinton-attack-ad-uses-troopergate-newspaper-clip
http://digg.com/politics/Latest_Clinton_Ad_Uses_Newspaper_Clipping_on_TROOPERGATE?t=15203493
http://www.docstrangelove.com/2008/05/11/subliminal-advertising-from-hillary-clinton/
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?p=10885861
http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/clinton_ad/

[mdmc]

181. I was just about to google

:kick:

[charlie]

183. Currently #14 on Reddit

http://reddit.com/info/6j2lq/comments

Way to go, bernie!

[berni_mccoy]

185. TransWorldNews has picked up the story...

From Google News
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&um=1&tab=wn&q=clinton+ad+uses+troopergate&btnG=Search+News

TransWorldNews link
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=46372&cat=5

[cui bono]

192. If this got by her...

how many things would be signed into law unnoticed if she were pres?

[berni_mccoy]

193. Good question.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

194. excellent point!

[cui bono]

196. This post is even better after watching the SNL skit from the weekend.

:rofl:

'She'll never do that, it doesn't even make sense'
"Well then, you don't know me."

:rofl:

[Imagevision]

198. Bill Clinton is 50% of the reason I don't want Hillary in the White House...

[npincus]

199. sent to Huffpo!

:rofl:

[Vickers]

200. It's been over 20 hours, and this video is STILL at her website.

I went there expecting it to be long-gone, but nope, still there.

I reckon you can count the website administrator as one of the pissed-off employees...

[berni_mccoy]

207. They may not yet know why their traffic is spiking or why this video is getting so much attention.

[NorthernSpy]

201. Too freakin bizarre! Good catch, Berni...

:thumbsup:

[Willo]

202. Great catch Berni

You are so not getting a Clinton Christmas card this year.

[berni_mccoy]

206. LOL. True enough. I think I got taken off that list a while ago.

[invictus]

205. Hillary can't even run a competent campaign. And she wants to run the country? No thank you. n/t

[Towlie]

208. Here's the original New York Daily News article.

Sorry if someone else already found this. There are so many posts already that I can't be sure.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/18/2007-12-18_gov_spitzer_aides_mum_on_private_lawyer_-3.html

Gov. Spitzer, aides mum on private lawyer hire in Troopergate scandal

BY JOE MAHONEY
DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF

Tuesday, December 18th 2007, 4:00 AM

ALBANY - Gov. Spitzer and his aides won't tell New Yorkers whether he has a private attorney to represent him in the Troopergate scandal.

At a tense press conference at the state Capitol on Monday, Spitzer also refused to discuss the parallel probes by the Albany district attorney's office and the state Public Integrity Commission, insisting, "I have answered all these questions at length."

"Obviously, we are cooperating fully," he said.

"It is their job to do what they do," Spitzer said of investigators. "It is my job to cooperate, which is exactly what I have done. I have answered all the questions, over and over."

But Senate Investigations Committee Chairman George Winner (R-Elmira) said the governor was engaging in "more stonewalling" by refusing to tell the public whether he has retained a private attorney.

"This man is incapable of leveling with anyone," added Winner, whose committee has met stiff resistance from the administration on its subpoenas seeking e-mails and other documents relating to the effort by Spitzer aides to discredit Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno.

Spitzer did acknowledge, as reported in yesterday's Daily News, that his office received a new subpoena from Albany County District Attorney David Soares in the reopened investigation into the scandal.

Meanwhile, The News learned that the administration's chief counsel, David Nocenti, a witness in the Troopergate affair, has hired Albany lawyer Peter Moschetti, and another high-ranking Spitzer cabinet member, Sean Patrick Maloney, has retained Manhattan lawyer Bart Schwartz.

Nocenti had notarized a written statement signed by Darren Dopp, the governor's former communications director. Sources say Soares is trying to determine if Dopp has made false statements.

(More follows. Click the link to see the article.)

[Muttocracy]

212. yes, it's up there many times now. nt

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

210. Suicide By Newsprint (SBN)

Why does this remind me of the scene in Alien where Ripley is getting the rolled up magazine stuffed down her gullet???

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Terri S]

213. So, what happened to this?

If this kind of thing appeared in an Obama ad, it would be replayed ad nauseum on all channels.

[berni_mccoy]

214. What happened is the Election is Over. It doesn't matter anymore.

[electron_blue]

215. Why is this ad still up today?

I expected to see it pulled. Good grief, can it be this is not on her radar?

[berni_mccoy]

216. Either they don't care or they don't know...