Huntsman Campaign ad smear tactic.

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http://www.theendrun.com/huntsman-complicit-in-false-flag-style-dirty-trick-against-paul

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Jon Huntsman staff creates a hit piece about Huntsman & claims Ron Paul did it!

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Have you seen this video? Turns out the Jon Huntsman smear ad, was made by Jon Huntsman's staff. They tried to make it look like it was made by Ron Paul's team, but they talked about it IN A PUBLIC FORUM!!!

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"Its just your computers cache. I deleted it."

Yeah, just ignore it... 

Also, The End Run states: 

 If you thought it would be impossible for Jon Huntsman and the Establishment media to stoop any lower than they already have in their attempts to marginalize and discredit Ron Paul, you thought wrong.

Just last week, Huntsman’s campaign released a “tacky, glib ‘Twilight Zone’ attack ad in a desperate bid to steal Ron Paul voters“, in the words of Infowars.com’s Paul Joseph Watson.

Now, just days later, a ridiculous, pathetic joke of a video has been posted to YouTube entitled “John Huntsman’s Values”.   The one minute video, which was posted two days ago (Jan 4), features clips Huntsman speaking Mandarin, images of him with his adopted Chinese and Indian daughters, and Photoshopped images mixing Huntsman’s likeness with that of Mao Zedong.   (Huntsman was formerly a U.S. Ambassador to China.)  The video and images are interspersed with asinine captions questioning Huntsman’s faith and “American Values”, referencing his adopted daughters, and calling him “The Manchurian Candidate”.

An idiotic video if ever there was one, and one that would normally get virtually no attention except by people wanting to marvel at the stupidy.

Now for the rub:  The concluding caption is “American Values And Liberty… Vote Ron Paul”.  Starting to smell the stink yet?

The video was uploaded by a user called “NHLiberty4Paul” on Wednesday, January 4.  A quick look at the user’s channel page (archived here as a backup) shows that the account was created the exactly same day that the video was uploaded.  This brand new, anonymous user has, of course, zero other uploads.

Furthermore, according to the publicly-viewable stats provided by YouTube, the very first place this video was posted was Jon Huntsman’s campaign website, Jon2012.com.  This was done on January 4, the very day the video was uploaded to YouTube, and before the video had received any traffic from other sites.

Huntsman’s people then immediately came out condemning the video and calling on Ron Paul to disavow it, as though he had anything to do with it or even knew about it.  An article published on the website of the Salt Lake Tribute on January 5, the day after it was posted, reads:

Huntsman to Paul: Disavow ‘manchurian candidate’ ad with Chinese daughter

Jon Huntsman’s campaign is asking Rep. Ron Paul to disavow a YouTube spot posted by a supporter that questions whether the former Utah governor is loyal to the United States or China and features shots of his adopted Chinese daughter, Gracie Mei, and an image of Huntsman superimposed wearing a Communist uniform.

“The ad is offensive and the Paul campaign and their supporters should condemn it,” Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller said Thursday night after the clip began circulating.

(Continued here.)

The same day, the video was posted to the front page of RedState.com, where smear artist Leon H. Wolf used it as an excuse to attack Ron Paul and his supporters.   With absolutely no proof and zero skepticism regarding who created the video, Wolf tells his readers that this video was created by “Ron Paul supporters” and provides “yet more evidence that they are mostly liberal Democrats who are mad that Obama has governed too far to the right”.   “Clearly Paul’s supporters are smarting a bit from finishing well behind a guy with no money and no campaign organization in Iowa, which was their one and only chance to win a state, and are letting their true colors show,” he added.

It was also posted to Breitbart.tv on January 5th, where, again, with zero proof or skepticism, it was attributed it to an “independent group supporting Ron Paul’s candidacy”, and was said to “illustrate some of the more fervent energy on behalf of the candidate.”  They later added:

UPDATE: We’ve received suggestions from some readers that this video was created to “troll” Ron Paul supporters and make them look bad. It appears that the YouTube account was created just one day ago. There is no way to know for sure whether this was created sincerely on behalf of Dr. Paul or as a dirty trick against his followers. As always, we will let our readers decide.

Huntsman himself foreshadowed an upcoming attack on Ron Paul in a recent interview on CNN.  Referring to a recent tweet by a Ron Paul staffer poking fun at his poor showing in Iowa, Huntsman and Piers Morgan laughed through the following exchange:

HUNTSMAN: Just tell Dr. Paul that I owe him a tweet in return, and he should be– he should be expecting one some time soon.

MORGAN: I think you should do what Mitt Romney does and get the dirty work done by somebody else.  Perhaps in your case your daughters could unleash themselves on Twitter on him.  I think that might be a better way of doing it.  Keep your hands out of it.

HUNTSMAN: They’ve got plenty– they’ve got plenty up their sleeves Piers, and you might be surprised at what they release in the next few days.

MORGAN: No, I’m hearing– I’m hearing noises of more stuff coming.  I can’t wait.

Despite all of this evidence that this is a “false flag”-style dirty trick set up by OPPONENTS of Paul with the complicity or even at the direction of the Huntsman campaign, the corporate media is now running with this story and attributing the video to Paul supporters, and in some cases even the actual Ron Paul campaign itself, while allowing Huntsman to play the victim.  Examples:

Huntsman objects to ad by Paul backers featuring adopted daughtersWashington Post/AP, Jan 6

Huntsman outraged at ad targeting adopted daughters Reuters, Jan 6
“Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman and members of his family expressed outrage on Friday at an advertisement targeted at his adopted daughters by a group supporting rival Ron Paul.”

Pro-Ron Paul ad mocks Jon Huntsman’s adopted Chinese daughter San Fransisco Chronicle, Jan 6

Jon Hunstman denounces ad showcasing his adopted daughters  Guardian, Jan 6
“Ad posted to YouTube by pro-Ron Paul group labels Huntsman as un-American for adopting girls from China and India”

Huntsman Slams Web Video Featuring Adopted Daughters Fox News, Jan 6
“Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman slammed a group purportedly backing Ron Paul after it released a Web video that included footage of Huntsman’s adopted daughters and questioned whether he represented “American values.”

Jon Huntsman objects to video supporting Ron Paul that calls him ‘Manchurian candidate’ Boston Globe, Jan 6

Ron Paul’s Negative Ad Blitz The Atlantic Wire, Jan 6

Cindy McCain, whose husband, Senator John McCain, just endorsed Mitt Romney yesterday, jumps in on the action, acting as though this video was posted by Ron Paul’s campaign, tweeting:  “I deeply resent the video made using the adopted daughters of @johnhuntsman. @ronpaul shame on you.”  Fox News and ABC make this tweet headline news.

The Paul campaign has, of course, already explained this they had nothing to do with this video, nor do they support it at all.

Paul’s New Hampshire spokeswoman, Kate Schackai: “The video was utterly distasteful and no one who actually supports Dr. Paul’s principles would have made it”

Paul’s campaign chairman, Jesse Benton:  “The video is disgusting… [whoever] put that up should remove it immediately.”

Nevertheless, CNN’s John King — right after attempting to link Paul to racists and anti-Semites — felt the need to show this video to millions on national TV, with captions calling it a “political ad”.  Paul, of course, denounced the video, and pointed out the absurdity of asking him to answer for it.  He didn’t even seem to have seen it yet. (The relevant section starts around the 6:40 mark, but I recommend watching the full video.)

(John King’s wife, CNN “journalist” Dana Bash, recently let it slip that she is personally “worried” about Ron Paul’s campaign.)

Meanwhile, this story has generated more positive press for Huntsman than money could buy.  Endearing images of him with his adopted daughters are all over the media, along with quotes of him explaining how he heroically saved them from a bleak fate.

Furthermore, one of Huntsman’s (biological) daughters –  the ones who just days ago he hinted had “plenty up their sleeve” and that “you might be surprised at what they release in the next few days” –  has already gone on national TV denouncing the video as “vile” and promoting Huntsman as a family man.

This is a priceless Jon Huntsman campaign ad, running in every newspaper and on every TV screen nationwide, for free.  “Cui Bono?”