Ron Paul supporters are hotly denying that a campaign supporter created the anti-Asian Jon Huntsman ad, and although they don’t have proof yet, they are making the case that the ad was actually created by a Ron Paul opponent in order to smear the campaign.
The End Run examines the source of the video in detail.
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The video was uploaded by a user called “NHLiberty4Paul” on Wednesday, January 4. A quick look at the user’s channel page (archived here as a backup) shows that the account was created the exactly same day that the video was uploaded. This brand new, anonymous user has, of course, zero other uploads.
Furthermore, according to the publicly-viewable stats provided by YouTube, the very first place this video was posted was Jon Huntsman’s campaign website, Jon2012.com. This was done on November 4, the very day the video was uploaded to YouTube, and before the video had received any traffic from other sites.
Furthermore, according to the publicly-viewable stats provided by YouTube, the very first place this video was posted was Jon Huntsman’s campaign website, Jon2012.com. This was done on November 4, the very day the video was uploaded to YouTube, and before the video had received any traffic from other sites.
Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller emails Buzzfeed a response.
We have a page that feeds in all the tweets that tag Jon Huntsman. So it is not weird at all that someone would go to the video from our site, given the Paulbots tweeted it at Jon Huntsman.
Did ‘Paulbots’ really tweet a link to the racist video at Jon Huntsman causing it to end up on the site? If so the Huntsman Miller campaign should offer the offending tweets as proof.
