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Ethan Winner Responds to Jawa Report allegations
Posted by Duncan on September 22nd, 2008
Ethan Winner, who Rusty over at the Jawa Report fingers as being partially behind the “grassroots” smear campaign against Senator Palin responds…. and sounds like the VP of a PR Company that deals in damage control…
Ace has a good round up here as well…
Below is the response…
Statement of Ethan Winner
The following is in response to questions I have received regarding the post on the Jawa Report website.I produced and posted on the Internet the video entitled “Sarah Palin: A Heartbeat Away.”
The idea for the video was mine. No one paid me to produce it. The only out-of-pocket cost will be the fee for the voice-over narrator, which I will pay personally when I receive an invoice. Contrary to the allegation in the Jawa Report, the voice-over artist has never done any work for the Obama campaign. I retained her through a talent agency based solely on the quality of her voice.
Neither the Obama campaign nor any independent political action committee has had a connection with the making and/or posting of this video. Just like the thousands of Americans who have posted videos on the Internet regarding the current Presidential campaign, I produced this video as an expression of my right to free speech, which is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
I believe the American people have a right and a need to know information about candidates for political office and their views. I made this video because I think it is important for the public to be aware of the association between Sarah and Todd Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party. The New York Times has reported that the Alaskan Independence Party website describes the party as seeking, in the words of the party, “a range of solutions to the conflicts between federal and local authority,” including “advocacy for state’s rights, through a return to territorial status, all the way to complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska.”
While a number of media outlets have said that reports that Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party may have been erroneous, her attendance at the party’s 1994 convention, her video speech to the 2008 convention and her husband’s membership in the Alaskan Independence Party have not been called into question.
Some people have asked why I have pulled the video from the Internet. The reason is simple. Following the posting of personal information about me by the Jawa Report, my family began to receive threatening and abusive phone calls and emails.
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm
If Ethan ever decides to retire from PR, he has a golden career opportunity in the “turning sows’ ears into silk purses” industry.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Scumtwat. At least he manned up and admitted. That’s rare for a liberal.
And to make such a fuss over such a erroneous story is stupid- but then again it’s the liberal way of things.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 am
Ethan’s statement is not exactly putting oil on troubled waters – rather, it’s more like putting oil on flaming waters.
In any case, here’s an update from RedState as of Monday evening. We’ll have to see if this gets any traction or if the MSM can manage to extinguish the fire before it gets too close to the Obama campaign.