Astroturfing by the Obama campaign?

Say it isn't true!

M. Simon posted about it last night, and the pieces are now all falling into place. The evidence is overwhelming. More here.

Michelle Malkin has posted one of the videos they've been desperately trying to pull. YouTube accounts are being closed left and right. It appears the chief culprit is the Winner & Associates firm.

Within an hour of publication of the Jawa Report's investigation, "eswinner" deleted the smear video that he had uploaded several times on September 11.

I figure that if they're such dishonest wimps that they can't stand behind their own work, the least I can do is republish here what they took down. That way, if they sue me for "copyright" violations, I can play "discovery" with them.

So here it is. (I've also downloaded it and saved it, and so have others, so it will never go away.)

(It's a lie, of course, as Palin was never a member of the AIP.)

People who want an encapsulated version of this story can find a good summary here, along with an observation:

If all of this is true and the Obama campaign can be connected to it, it would represent a massive set of FEC violations, as well as the ultimate repudiation of "hope and change" and "New Politics". In fact, it would be a massive demonstration of Chicago Politics on a national scale.

The only question now is how long the MSM can ignore this blatantly dishonest scheme. It took weeks for Dan Rather to be discredited.

Gee, I didn't realize how the words "Astroturf" and "Roundup" look together. I guess Astroturf is not Roundup proof after all.

UPDATE: Via Darleen Click in the comments below, Ethan confesses -- "But with lots of disclaimers. (heh)"

Also "Ace is rolling up the sidewalks behind and catching lots of other bit players in this nasty business."