Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they\u2019ve managed to fool an awful lot of people \u2013 mostly \u201creporters\u201d and bloggers who hate Ron Paul \u2013 into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season.<\/p>\n
It all started with an incredibly stupid video <\/a>posted on Youtube by \u201cNHLiberty4Paul\u201d accusing Jon Huntsman of being a Chinese agent — a “Manchurian candidate” — and making fun of his daughters. The Huntsman campaign was quick to pounce <\/a>on this, responding very quickly with a blast of righteous indignation from Huntsman himself.<\/p>\n Of course, anyone can post anything on Youtube, and the content of the video \u2013 in the course of which Huntsman is called a \u201cChicom\u201d \u2013 is not something an authentic Ron Paul supporter would say. The complete lack of evidence that the Paul campaign was behind it didn\u2019t stop Huntsman, however, nor did it stop the Usual<\/a> Suspects<\/a> from glomming on to the video as \u201cevidence\u201d of Paul\u2019s perfidy. The Huffington Post jumped <\/a>on the \u201cstory,\u201d as did Gawker (natch!), Breitbart.com, and RedState.com.<\/p>\n There\u2019s just one problem with this \u201cstory\u201d \u2013 it has a sequel. Hours after the now-infamous video was put up yet another video was posted by \u201cNH4MittRomney<\/a>,\u201d and, subsequently, by \u201cNH4Santorum<\/a>\u201d \u2013 the same video that is supposed to be the work of Paul\u2019s supporters. What\u2019s funny is that \u201cNH4Santorum\u201d is posting comments<\/a>\u00a0under the other two Youtube pages. On the page attributed to \u201cNHLiberty4Paul\u201d he advertises his latest masterpiece: \u201cWatch our ad about Huntsman on our chanel [sic] !!! rick also dislikes huntsman!\u201d He (or she) also points out to one commenter on the Santorum page that \u201cRick has the same opinion as the Paul-supporters [sic].\u201d Meanwhile, \u201cNH4MittRomney\u201d pays a visit to \u201cNHLiberty4Paul\u201d\u2019s page and advertises his wares<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s the political version of “The Three Faces of Eve<\/a>.”<\/p>\n So who is behind all this? Someone took a screen shot <\/a>of the earliest statistics of the “NHLiberty4Paul” page: it clearly shows that one of the first four<\/em> visitors to the page (aside from its creator)\u00a0came from the Huntsman web site, jon2012.com.<\/p>\n Pretty quick on the draw, those Huntsman people — a little too<\/em> quick, wouldn’t you say? If you suspect <\/a>this is a case of “The Three Faces of Jon Huntsman” — that the Huntsman campaign, or one of his supporters, is responsible — I won’t argue with you. It does<\/em> seem odd <\/a>that whoever posted the video just happened to have footage of Huntsman’s daughters — what appear to be home movies — that I haven’t seen anywhere else. However, the following scenario seems far more likely to me:<\/p>\n Some\u00a0fool\u00a0put up a nasty video and made it look like the work of a Paul supporter, and Huntsman immediately went nuclear, blaming the Paul campaign. Even as Huntsman was playing the victim, the same idiot was putting up the same\u00a0 video trying to make it look like the work of\u00a0supporters of Romney and Santorum. Huntsman has been hoaxed — but don’t hold your breath waiting for a retraction.<\/p>\n Question: if Huntsman flies off the handle this easily, and can be taken in by a transparently obvious prank like this stupid video, then do we really want his finger on the nuclear trigger?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they\u2019ve managed to fool an awful lot of people \u2013 mostly \u201creporters\u201d and bloggers who hate Ron Paul \u2013 into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. 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![a screen shot <\/a>of the earliest statistics of the “NHLiberty4Paul” page: it clearly shows that one of the first four<\/em> visitors to the page (aside from its creator)\u00a0came from the Huntsman web site, jon2012.com.<\/p>\nPretty quick on the draw, those Huntsman people — a little too<\/em> quick, wouldn’t you say? If you suspect <\/a>this is a case of “The Three Faces of Jon Huntsman” — that the Huntsman campaign, or one of his supporters, is responsible — I won’t argue with you. It does<\/em> seem odd <\/a>that whoever posted the video just happened to have footage of Huntsman’s daughters — what appear to be home movies — that I haven’t seen anywhere else. However, the following scenario seems far more likely to me:<\/p>\nSome\u00a0fool\u00a0put up a nasty video and made it look like the work of a Paul supporter, and Huntsman immediately went nuclear, blaming the Paul campaign. Even as Huntsman was playing the victim, the same idiot was putting up the same\u00a0 video trying to make it look like the work of\u00a0supporters of Romney and Santorum. Huntsman has been hoaxed — but don’t hold your breath waiting for a retraction.<\/p>\nQuestion: if Huntsman flies off the handle this easily, and can be taken in by a transparently obvious prank like this stupid video, then do we really want his finger on the nuclear trigger?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they\u2019ve managed to fool an awful lot of people \u2013 mostly \u201creporters\u201d and bloggers who hate Ron Paul \u2013 into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. It all started with an incredibly stupid video posted on Youtube by \u201cNHLiberty4Paul\u201d accusing Jon Huntsman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13598,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/img341.imageshack.us\/img341\/9726\/68016587.png\"){kind=link}