Swift Boat Ad Firm Denies Link to Viral, Racist GOP Attack Videos

[BradBlog]

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Swift Boat Ad Firm Denies Link to Viral, Racist GOP Attack Videos
McCain Camp Reportedly Working With PR Outfit Tied to Apparent Creator of 'JEW-liani' Hit Video
An Elaborate 'Hoax'... or Something More?
-- Guest Blogged by Arlen Parsa

A mysterious and politically-incorrect series of viral videos posted on YouTube are lighting up speculation online about their origin. A report published on July 13th attributed them to an employee of of Stevens, Reed, Curcio & Potholm (SRCP), the same Republican firm that produced the infamous Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads in 2004.

The videos, posted on the YouTube account "abrad2345" mock several Republican candidates, at times making racist attacks against Rudy Giuliani, making fun of his bout with prostate cancer, suggesting that Fred Thompson's wife is transgender, and Mitt Romney is gay. SRCP now reportedly works for John McCain, but their attorney's have written us a letter denying all involvment in the extraordinary 'Swift Boat' style attacks...

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[sharp_stick]

1. Classy pricks huh?

I'm always amazed that anybody can see anything except hate and idiocy when confronted with a republican.

[displacedtexan]

2. Like I'd ever believe a word the swiftboaters say!

They did it before, and they'll do it again.

Period.

[Mz Pip]

3. Is McCain really

that stupid? I know they guy is desperate but if this is definitively linked back to him it would sink his campaign even deeper than it already is.

So if it's true I hope it's proved ASAP so McCain can quickly exist the stage and we can turn our attention to trashing the candidates who actually have a shot at winning the primary.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[BradBlog]

6. Apparently so...

He's definitely working with this outfit, and the viral videos pick on everybody *except* for McCain.

Does he know about them specifically? That we've yet to be able to find out one way or another.

[zehnkatzen]

4. It does-and doesn't matter what they say about it

it has their smell all over it, and if they aren't responsible for it, they may as well have been.

There was a time when this sort of stuff was seen by everyone as reprehensible and embarrassing, and if any political group did this they were immediately exiled to the wilderness. I only say this because it's increasingly hard to believe that there was ever a time when political Americans were civil to one another, that people didn't try to ruin each other because they didn't agree.

That, and the appalling state of things remind me of a story I heard about things in my own great state that were slightly before my time. Two of the greatest Oregonians ever to be governor, Tom McCall (who was a Republican) and Robert Straub (who was Democratic) held a series of debates before Tom McCall was first elected Oregon governor. They were so damn convivial and cordial that the wags called them "The Bob and Tom Show".

Even though McCall went on to become Oregon's governor (possibly the greatest governor Oregon ever had), Straub went on to become gov after him (and was no slouch in the Governor dept either).

Those were the days, my friends, we thought they'd never end; everybody got along, and Republicans didn't make you necessarily want to vomit when you though of them.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R for yeah-right. Let the cockroaches run from the light!!1 n/t

[rocktivity]

7. They probably got someone else do to them

so they can "truthfully" deny them.

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rocknation