Its really hard to sum up all of the fantastic reporting that The Jawa Report has done on this story. But I'll try.
Right after Palin was announced as the VP candidate, a video was produced attacking her. Links to that video were presented in various places, including a DailyKos diary, which was later deleted.
The Jawa Report followed the internet nuggets to the door of Winner & Associates; a PR firm that has donated to the Obama campaign and has significant ties to the same.
Again, read the report. I can't sum it up and do it justice. These guys really did their homework and connected the dots.
But if its all correct (and it seems to be), a PR company that has many connections to the Obama camp released a smear video on Palin, then tried to cover its tracks. A lot of tracks were deleted in the process, but the Jawa report kept them all.
Most recently, the Jawa Report published an update, where Ethan Winner (yes, Of Winner and Associates) claims that he made the video on his own, and that he planned on paying all of the expenses out of his own pocket.
If you read the rest of the report, you'll be saying 'bullshit' throughout his denial of impropriety, as I did.
Its important to note that the Jawa Report figured out that 'whoever' was posting those videos online was doing it during regular business hours... which would make it during the time when Ethan was supposedly working for Winner And Associates. Provided that he has regular business hours, of course.
I can't emphasize enough how good this report is. I took journalism classes. I know how much work it takes to follow all of the leads. If there was a Pulitzer for blogging, these guys should get it. Seriously.
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