It's as much proof that the original video is a Huntsman plot as the name of the YouTube account is proof that it was a Ron Paul supporter.That has been exposed as fake about 10 times on this thread.
I'm seriously at a loss right now - I knew they would push Huntsman but I figured it would be via a cooked poll (ala CNN's Iowa Santorum poll)... never thought they'd procede the cooked poll (which is coming saturday or sunday so that all day Monday the media can say "but Huntsman has the momentum" x1000) with a anonymously seeded youtube video that the media can then pin on Ron.
The only thing that gives me comfort is that Rand & Doug Wead are both with Ron to plan a response.
I think another RPF member nailed it when he posted this quote from a book on Karl Rove:
Who the fuck are all these newbies. Buy a thesaurus fool.
It's as much proof that the original video is a Huntsman plot as the name of the YouTube account is proof that it was a Ron Paul supporter.
This.
The Ron Paul campaign should point out that the account only has this one video, an obvious screen name, was created the day the video was posted and its first referral came from Huntsman's official website right after the video was posted:
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Huntsman is the darling of the establishment. It freaks me out at times. They are so protective over him. I've never seen anything like it.
Why is this news?
It's a shitty video somebody threw together of clips of Huntsman speaking Chinese. Since he was a Chinese ambassador is he a closet communist or something sent over here?
If I were Ron Paul I'd just laugh if somebody tried to link it to me. I mean if they were going to do an ad like that, which they wouldn't, I'd hope they at least put a little more effort into it instead of making it look like a 14 year old did it between Youporn clips.
Its news because all of the media, from CNN to Fox, to talk radio, to random blogs, has decided to pounce on this youtube video in concert. A youtube video put up on the same day the account was made, with only 1 video, with one of the first referrals being jon2012. It is a coordinated smear to torpedo Ron in NH, and build up Huntsman. It is wholly vile.
Paul's campaign better have a press conference, or something, tomorrow addressing this. They need to call out the media for blowing up this nothing video and attributing it to Ron, they need to call out Huntsman as the source of the smear. If they ignore it, Ron is going to take significant damage in New Hampshire, possibly coming in 3rd, or at least making his 2nd place finish very far behind. Because the media is just going to keep bringing this up all weekend. That's what they're paid for, afterall.
to be honest, this is a really stupid issue. I want to disprove it, but if I weren't a Ron Paul supporter I still wouldn't think he was responsible for some video some random internet troll made.
Gawker updated with the YouTube screenshot.
http://gawker.com/5873491/whos-behind-this-stupid-jon-huntsman-manchurian-candidate-video
Update 1/6/12: Several people have emailed us to point out that the first referral to the video, according the YouTube statistics, is from "jon2012.com" — Huntsman's campaign site. Huntsman campaign spokesperson Tim Miller tells us in response, "All tweets that tag @JonHuntsman show up on our site. So someone saw it here."
He's correct. So the Twitter account created the referral by mentioning him.