They're a crisis communications firm. And they've had 12 hours to figure out their story. But they apparently haven't come up with a good one yet.

This is the part that cracks me up.  Physician, heal thyself.  To be fair, its possible that part of succesful crisis management is sheer disinterested chutzpah, aided by the lie repeated often enough.  The former is apparently out once they're the ones on the hook, and the latter is hampered by what's already on the record and the necessity of covering for their beneficiary.  I still find it hilarious.

Shorts.  Caught.  Down.  In public.  12 Noon. 

Some assembly and ignorance of intertubes required.

9 What are the chances these sleazebags get prosecuted for election law violations?

Slim ____
None ____

I'll take "None" for 500, Alex.

Return with us now to those wonderful days of  Bubba 'n Piaps ....

The Losers aren't stalling .... They're " assembling their answers"

Not just that, but the guys name is Liu-Klein .... how inclusive !

I truly marvel at the diversity of the Left ... they have midget socialists, black socialists, one-eyed lesbo socialists, MEChA socialists, fistin' socialists, and Asian-American lying SOS spineless web-dweeb socialists

Dope ! .... spare Change ! .... Ministry of Fake Web "narratives"

I may be of thome aththithtanth in cathe there ith a thudden crithith!

I wonder what the traffic is like at Jawa?

Heck, I wonder what it is currently at here at Ace's.

Is this video that has your fingerprints all over it and was sent from your long-standing account that everybody acknowledges was yours and you've used before, and it's clearly yours, is that yours? Did you do that thing we have video of you doing?

"Um, I'll have to get back to you on that."

I suppose that's slightly less incriminating than: "I plead the fifth."

Sheesh. I can't believe more of the big guns haven't picked up on this yet. Well, we'll wait. I bet they will.

Thy Lord is not going to be pleased. Thou shalt hope his teleprompter is set to 'merciful and forgiving' and not 'Facky Mar and Froddie Mur' when He hears this.

It's very odd. You'd think guys that were going to pull this sort of skulduggery would at least go to the trouble of coming up with better monikers than "eswinner".

There's only one plausible explanation. They weren't thinking about how it was going to look. They simply weren't thinking that the blogosphere was going to connect all the dots, because they've probably done similar things before, no better hidden, for other clients, and it's worked. This would have worked, without Ace of Spades and Jawa report and others. Just as Rathergate would have been nothing without Little Green Footballs.

Which is also the explanation for the vigorous take down and the cancelling of the accounts. Which is clearly an over-reaction. You don't over-react that way, if you have an exit strategy, or if you've thought about what you're doing. It makes them look guilty as hell, it implicates Obama in the smear--even if he has plausible deniability, the deletion of the accounts looks bad because it makes it look like there is something serious to cover-up.

Chances are, this strategy originated with Axelrod and Axelrod is generally a good strategerist and speechwriter and puppeteer, and since he is the voice of the Obama campaign, nobody wants to see Axelrod taken out and thrown under the bus by getting connected with this.

Heh.  I wonder if Obama knows about the Jawa report right now?  Have his people told him of this potential problem yet?

Could his last speech stumble/mumble be related?

Hope so!

Come on Mr. Liu-Klein, you have to be bold in these situations!

Did Bill Clinton say, "Sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky? I'll have to get back to you on that."

Did Dan Rather say, "Are these documents fake? I'll have to get back to you on that."

You have to be bold, pick a position, and stick to it. What makes it really easy is that the press will cover for you.

Hell, by catching this, the left has been put on notice that we're looking for this, and if we can make this big time national news and a scandal, that is awesome, but that is extra.

When will someone in the MSM finally get some guts and start picking up on this? FOX? 

Posted by: HawaiiLwyr at September 22, 2008 05:28 PM (G7TZh)

I've always noticed when it's on my dime, there are no yes or no answers, but when it's on their dime, it's nothing but yes or no.

Heck, I wonder what it is currently at here at Ace's."

About an hour ago, I had hard time getting logged on.  Looks t'me like traffic's spiking real big.

Anyone know a good attorney?

Don't you mean a skilled attorney. Since attorney's sell their souls to Satan I don't think they can actually be good.

#64, in #60's defense, recall that Dan Rather tried to sell baldfaced lies on national TV, and when called on it, kept digging...on national TV.

Recall also that journalists have the morals of a pack of jackals: the only thing better than taking down a Republican is taking down a competing journalist.  There was a bit of a positive feedback loop going on with the Rathergate thing.

I think Ace's original promotion of this story, i.e. that it was of "medium" interest, still holds.

This isn't the 1,000 pound bomb that takes out the Akagi, though it might be part of the sporadic series of attacks that keeps Obama too busy playing defense to notice the descending 1,000 pound bomb while he can still do anything about.

We shall see.

This guy's dad is chairman of the California Public Utilities Commission.  His mom is running for state senate and has taken money from 5 companies that his dad regulates.  His dad can break 'em or turn on the faucets of cash.

The kid is in the tank for Obama.

Just coincidences, all.

Watch how fast this falls off the bottom of Memeorandum. I've been watching Meme for a few weeks now and it has become increasingly dominated by pro-Obama, anti-McCain, and very anti-Palin links.

Today is unusual because there is so much bailout news but if you look at http://www.memeorandum.com/lb
Meme's Leaderboard

of the top 25 links 20 (including MSM which we know is in the tank for O) are clearly left, proO/antiMP. Only three (The Corner, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin) could be construed as proMP/antiO.

Why is Meme still treated as a reliable source?