Fake Republican Marty Eisenstadt scores big: Palin's book title taken from his comment.

[byronius]

A Republican operative named Martin Eisenstadt was hired by the McCain campaign, having heard of his bare-knuckles, no-holds-barred success with other campaigns.

As the campaign wore on, CNN, the LA Times, and many other news outlets, especially Fox, began quoting an ‘unnamed McCain adviser’ who was responsible for starting multiple stories about Sarah Palin and John McCain, including the Palin clothing scandal, the ‘Africa is a country’ scandal, and about five or six other major news stories that helped torpedo the McCain campaign.

Among the stories: ‘Unnamed McCain campaign adviser says Governor Sarah Palin is “going rogue”; says that she has been the hardest candidate to bring up to speed in presidential campaign history’ — from which comes the title of Sarah Palin’s new 400-page book.

Martin Eisenstadt is the completely fictional creation of two shy liberal nerds, who employed a large staff of volunteers and a professional actor to create not only a fake person, but also a fake foundation that he had purportedly started, complete with a huge fake staff contact list (with phones that were always answered by real people), and impeccable conservative social credentials. The paychecks were never cashed (that would have been illegal), and ID was never requested; ‘everyone’ knew about Marty Eisenstadt, the conservative whiz kid.

I believe these two gentleman helped change the course of history. And to see their creation’s phrase become the title of Palin’s book is Supreme Irony, especially after the hoax was revealed last year in an MSNBC interview with the two creators.

Here’s a completely fake BBC documentary Martin Eisenstadt appeared in called ‘The Last Republican’, still claimed as legitimate by confused conservatives everywhere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZiv9gFwhY

OMG. Stupendously rich. These guys are my heroes.

Marty Eisenstadt rules the world.

[aquart]

1. Were any of those leaked stories true, then?

Was nobody in the campaign ACTUALLY of the opinion that Palin was "going rogue"?

I don't seem to be appreciating the joke.

[byronius]

2. They were all true. Eisenstadt was in a position within the campaign to know.

He just leaked what everyone else knew. To the eternal irritation of the McCain campaign.

The actor playing Eisenstadt was actually assigned to manage Palin, and booked her hair appointments and clothing shopping sprees.

[bleever]

3. Here's some clarification from an NYT article:

The pranksters behind Eisenstadt acknowledge that he was not, through them, the anonymous source of the Palin leak. He just claimed falsely that he was the leaker--and they say they have no reason to cast doubt on the original story. For its part, Fox News Channel continues to stand behind its story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html

[byronius]

4. It just gets deeper and deeper. Remarkable.