Astroturfing the NEA: Winner & Associates in on the Scheme?
by Rusty ShacklefordColor me unsurprised to find out that an employee of Winner and Associates — who you’ll recall we revealed were behind the astroturfing campaign to discredit Sarah Palin — was in on the National Endowment for the Arts phone call outlining how the Obama Administration would use that government organization to push its agenda.
From a list of those participating in the conference call:
After we uncovered the link between Winner and Associates, David Axelrod, and the smear campaign against Sarah Palin designed to look as though it was coming from the “grass roots” we begged — literally begged! — the MSM to look into whether the large campaign consulting firm was subcontracted by David Axelrod for work on the Obama campaign. As I noted at the time, I’m just a blogger and don’t really have the resources necessary to conduct a thorough investigation.
As Ace notes here, once Ethan Winner confessed that he was behind the video, the MSM concluded that there was nothing more to investigate. This despite the fact that I showed that at least two other Winner and Associate employees — a subdivision of the largest advertising agency in the world — participated in the astroturfing campaign during normal business hours.
Three employees, one of them the President of the subdivision and another a VP, claimed they were doing this on their own time — which we showed could not have been the case — and on their own dime. On their own dime? Maybe, but it still seems unlikely.
And now we have another Winner and Associates guy at the NEA conference call? He’s also listed as one of the founders of Generation Obama.
Are you going to now tell me that his relationship with Generation Obama is purely on a volunteer basis? And that his involvement with what appears to be a move to make the NEA push Obama’s agenda is being done pro-bono?
Winner and Associates: the largest PR firm in California, but all their major work is done for free!
Something. Doesn’t. Add. Up.
More over at Ace’s.
UPDATE:
We found out, when earlier this year, one of our Senior Associates, Bim Ayandele, was asked by the Obama Administration to help with the launch of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement (OPE).
And who runs the White House Office of Public Engagement? Buffy Wicks, who set up the NEA phone call.
Thanks to Stable Hand.
UPDATE 9/22/2009: It looks like Bim Ayandele uses twitter. His tweets after the August 10th NEA conference seem to suggest that he’s involved in an orchestrated astroturfing campaign.
Follow the link and take a close look at the time stamps. He’s pushing Health Care and anti-Tea Party propaganda on company time during normal business hours.
Also not that none of his tweets prior to the conference call were political in nature. After the conference call nearly all of them are. Yet we are to believe that a paid political consultant with a firm that specializes in damage control and grassroots organizations just happened to be in on a non-partisan call for artists?
Artists who, after the call, “spontaneously” begin to support Obama’s health care plans?
Give. Me. A. Break.
This has all the signs of astroturfing. Will post updates at link above.
PS– Here’s the original Ethan Winner produced video mashed with an official David Axelrod/Obama produced video.
UPDATE NEWBIE: Its the Cover-up
Update by Howie:
Hmmm right after I started following Bim’s twitter feed. He took down his icon.
click for larger
Odie must have frightened him. He is kinda scary in a harmless comic book kind of way. I mean not as scary as Bim’s thug icon but pretty scary.
Oh and Bim, its called the Google cache.
Update II: Awww, you put it back, there you go Bim……if you’re going to be a thug, be a proud thug.
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NEA: Policing Thought Crime
Yosi Sergent:
“Attach whatever you’re doing to this initiative. Let’s raise the visibility for the Presidents call”
“We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government.”
George Will: “Wrong preposition. Not ‘with’ the government, but FOR the government.” http://www.graffiti.org/faq/kataras/kataras_fig3F...
Astroturfing the NEA: Winner & Associates in on the Scheme?
Uh, yes.
The entire Democrat party is a criminal enterprise in the model of ACORN.
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Here is the originally produced video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eu9Z2hXky0&fe...
The pro-propaganda approach of the Obama machine must be exposed.
The Statist movement is no less attracted to propaganda than were the Soviet or Nazi empires. “SPRECHEN SIE PROPAGANDA?” at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Keep up the good work, BigGov.com!
Kudos to the editor, Rusty Shackleford. Good work, Dale.
The pro-propaganda approach of the Obama machine must be exposed.
The American Statist movement is no less attracted to propaganda than were the Soviet or Nazi empires. “SPRECHEN SIE PROPAGANDA?” at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Keep up the good work, BigGov.com!
The hits just keep on coming – Its depressing what this country was "conned" into. The amount of corruption is stunning. Where the hell is the FBI ?
It just blows my mind that they have evidence documenting all the connections, corruption and pay offs in the Obama administration and we are still called the astroturfers. While I am not shocked, it is just amazing that the MSM is able to ignore so much. That is some kind of talent they are taught in journalism school.
This news means nothing if it does not connect with the people and inspire them to actually pick up the phone and call/write/email a Congressman or elected official to speak their minds! This news means nothing if it does not inspire people to get up off of the couch and demand an end to the tyranny! Get up off of the couch people, and do what you can to save this great country! Make a loud noise! Be heard!
Yes, where the hell IS the FBI?!
This seems to set a new standard for arrogance.
Glenn Beck has a great Chalkboard
Just sya'in….(pats chest twice, holds up peace sign)
The left always hates when you can explain things…..( with a freaking chalkboard @ that ! )
AMEN – Hell cut and paste this crap if you have too and mail them ( http://www.congress.org ) – make them realize that they cannot hide in the sand as the the MSM does… Put it in thier face and make them expalin it to you???
Ask questions, jsut ask questions…..show them the how to connect the dots…..
THEY WORK FOR US !!!!
Investigative reporting by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, WaPo, NYT
NOTHING – Reverend Wright’s Hate Speech
NOTHING – John Edwards Love Child
NOTHING – Van Jones Far Left Radicalism
NOTHING – ACORN’s Rife Corruption, Criminality
NOTHING – NEA’s Agitprop, Thought-Policing
They are being shamefully humiliated!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0JDjfEkOSQ
Hmm. Winner and Assoc. Hmmm. hired by axelrod on behalf of the president? hmmm. Bim advocating Beck boycott… HMMMM? This stinks to high heaven.
I'd guess Investigating those "right wing radical extremists" that give all the lefties a case of the shakes.
Or, helping plant veggies in the rose garden with the first Wookie.
Not Over.
If they can deal with ACORN and not get sick, this is easy for them to swallow. The next 200 days will be tough.
Your diligence is amazing. Solid investigatve work connectting the dots. I'm no lawyer so I don't know how strong the evidence has to be, but how much more do you need to cobble together to persuade a judge to issue a subpoena to track the money trail?
[...] Rusty Shackleford is the iceman. Guess we’re going to get to revisit that Winner Associates/David Axelrod [...]
The FBI is controlled by … the corruptors. You'll never see any of what is going on right now investigated by any "law" enforcement organization. At least not until the Repubs retake control of the House and hopefully (most likely not!) the Senate in 2010.
STOP! You had me at 'Jawa'.
Wasn't this organization also somehow involved with the kid who broke into Sarah Palin's e-mail?
This is absolutely disgusting!
It's way past time to get the word out.
Thank GOD for Andrew Breitbart, Big Government, et al his sites.
We need to fight back……………HARD……….against these damned thugs and use their own tactics against ALL of them.
This criminal activity, by the damned Dems and their drooling sycophants MUST be stopped and punished.
The Obama administration is going to turn out to so much more corrupt than the Nixon administration. The self-implosion is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. They just keep making it worse and worse.
The N.Y. Times finally did a front page article on Edward's "LOVE CHILD"/ bastard, but it was way too little and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too damned late!
I read The Jawa Report almost daily. Glad to see you on here, Darth Rusty!!!
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Hi,
Pretty sure, this says it all…LOL
Buffy Wicks.com
Peace!
Iraq Updates
[...] was involved on the call, and what her supervisor, Valeria Jarrett, knew about it. Why was an employee of Winner & Associates on the call? And, again, what was wrong with the old guidelines that they need to be revised? [...]
Nah, the Dems have been a bunch of crooks for ages, long before that worm-infested ACORN ever hit the ground.
The FBI is deployed looking for "right-wing extremists." It'll take them awhile to finish processing that flag@whitehouse.gov list. The Secret Service is also busy on that, since saying Barry should have ObamaCare too can be construed as a death threat.
We all know what "they" swallow…
Dems are not the Dem Party most people associate the Dem Party with. They have been hijacked by the Socialist Party USA and the Communist Party USA. Good article from Canada Free Press on this here:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1369...
The problem with this train wreck is that WE, the american people are on the freaking train! Can we please stop with the hand wringing and go into your neighborhoods and warn people! PLEEEZE! They may not want to hear but, they will not forget when things get bad that you warned them. Democrats are in deep do do and they are willing to sell their souls to prevent from being discovered. Be LOUD, be BOLD! Peace out.
Rusty? Wow. They really will let just any old body post here, won't they? LOL!
SUE ALL THESE M.F.'rs FOR TAKING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR AN UNLAWFUL POLITICAL PURPOSE!!!!!
RICO VIOLATIONS!!!!
OBAMA IS A WALKING RICO VIOLATION!!!!! SUE THEM ALL!!!!! SWAMP THEM WITH LAWSUITS!!!!!
Thank you for your diligence. Obama and his sycophants thought the people were going to roll over. Hell NO!
The pro-propaganda approach of the Obama machine must be exposed.
The American Statist movement is no less attracted to propaganda than were the Soviet or Nazi empires. “SPRECHEN SIE PROPAGANDA? WHY THE LEFT LOVES LIES” at <a href="http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/…” target=”_blank”>http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/…
Keep up the good work, BigGov.com!
I am sure glad there are some young tech savvy people here, investigating, reporting. With that type intelligence, we have a chance to beat them at their own game. This is a technology war, a war of ideology, a war for peoples minds; their hearts and souls. It won't be fought with bullets, but with technology. Only when the ideology of the left begins to change, will this change…………….
I have heard it said that there is nothing worse than a radical Hacidic Jewish zealot.
I have heard it said that there is nothing worse than a radical Muslim zealot.
I have heard it said that there is nothing worse than a radical Chrisian zealot.
I have come to believe there is nothing scarier than a Liberal Fascist Militant zealot.
Why isn't the Obama administration not being charged under RICO?
the cell door slamming shut ,should crack the akorn………and bho king usurper should be behind doors or in shackles as he is deported…………………..we are headed for a constitutional crisis
Yes, thank God, for Breitbart and all his co-workers.
The new NEA Director needs to know about google cache too!
check this out!
http://www.ms.foundation.org/user-assets/PDF/MS_A...
Surprised this hasn't been posted already:
Senate GOP Goes After NEA
Good Lord, is ANYONE in the Obama Administration a normal, ethical person? They all seem to be cheats, liars and losers! What a team! Pray for our country until we can stop his idiot in 2010!
BG.com, please keep the BIG stories coming. First acorn, now the nea. It's you're responsibility to expose the lies so America can vote these knuckleheads out of office in the next election cycle.
Dare to be heard? Does the MS Foundation really think we are living in the Victorian Era??? Ladies at the foundation: "Women have been heard for many decades now so, yeah, we don't need you daring us to be heard."
Why do people like this speak in the name of all women. It's embarrassing.
21st century to MS Foundation: Get out of the 1960s…
Boy are we lucky that the people who are trying to destroy America are a bunch of dimwitted fools.
[...] The views represented do not necessarily represent those of the Chicago Daily Observer.] PR Firm Responsible For Palin Hit-Job Videos on NEA Conf. CallPrevious post: Buffy and [...]
Indeed we can be thankful that the statists believe they are so crafty, so utterly above reproach, that they are ordained in their liberal facist endeavors…that they cannot help but continually directly contribute to their own demise. Keep it at statists!…your behavior – the only behavior of which you are capable – will most certainly cause your destrucition.
….lookin' forward to 2010 and, more precisely, 2012.
[...] be found over at Andrew Breitbart’s Bighollywood.com. Also particpating in this call was a rep from Winner & Associates, the very group behind efforts to discredit Sarah Palin. A partial list of the participants of [...]
GREAT JOB!! KEEP EXPOSING THIS ADMISITRATIONS' CORRUPTION… FOLLOW THE TRAIL, POST THE NAMES, SHINE THE LIGHT!!! LIBERALS ARE LIKE COCKROACHES THEY ARE DIRTY AND THEY SCURRY FROM THE LIGHT. I AM CALLING FOR A FULL CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN!!!
I WILL ALSO GO TO CALIFONIA AND MAKE A CITIZENS ARREST ON THIS BIM AYANDELE CHARACTER!!!!
Rusty is Multti tasking on Big Government …no wonder the White House is backing away from the NEA
I mean all admin. have some corruption whatever it may be BUT THIS just goes so far beyond the scope of anything imaginable. This runs far deeper than anyone couldve thought at first. They have all been working on this plan for decades and finally have begun to put it all in motion. All the intricate webs they weaved…
You're right that all administrations have their problems, but if these kinds of stories keep coming out, the Democrats are going to be synonymous with corruption.
My Congressman Neil Abercrombie is in bed – deeply in bed – with organized labor. A phone call or email to him is like calling Gotti or Capone to complain about liquor delivery trucks gone missing.
[...] House is laughable, at best. Again, if this was just all a big misunderstanding then why was a representative from one of the country’s largest political advertising firms involved? And pushing the health care agenda on company [...]
[...] House is laughable, at best. Again, if this was just all a big misunderstanding then why was a representative from one of the country’s largest political advertising firms involved? And pushing the health care agenda on company [...]
[...] House is laughable, at best. Again, if this was just all a big misunderstanding then why was a representative from one of the country’s largest political advertising firms involved? And pushing the health care agenda on company [...]
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