If I were you, I would find out what Colonel Mustard's username is.

That guys is always up to no good.

and apparently coordinated and trying to time it just right for the NC election.  And posting within minutes or hours.  Interesting.

Thanks for the sleuthing and I hope this is forwarded to the Clinton campaign.  I am hoping this is the overzealous supporters and not an orchestrated attempt by the Obama campaign or his surrogates. We'll just have to see.

he has a right to investigate to see if there are any ties to the Obama camp and also to bring charges.

and let me just guess --- rather than being banned Mintosh has racked up astronomical mojo over at DKos? sad.

Thank you, too, for fighting the good fight.  Now you deserve to rest.  ;-)

Great work!!!!!

This looks like great work. It looks like you've got Ground Zero of the ratfucking; mere accounts set up solely for the purpose of propagating the video.

The question is, who's are the real people behind the sock puppets?

We've been looking at JedReport, who looks to be a former Cantwell staffer. He's an Obama supporter, posts a LOT on YouTube, posts a LOT on Kos, and is frequently recommended.

It would also be interesting to find out who recommended the video to the A list -- had to be someone they trusted -- wrongly, as it turns out, since they ran with it with no transcript, and not (I have to believe) knowing the provenance (and then there's the matter of the fact that I imagine it's copyrighted material).

We're talking this over at this link.

This suggests to me that a number of people, who may or may not be associated with the Obama campaign, acting in a coordinated fashion, was involved in an act of race-baiting using a fraudulent and doctored video.

This is a sign of utter panic in the rank, in my opinion.

finger-gate...which is to say none...meh...whatevah, it is gonna be a one off cause frankly, I don't see it getting any traction...boring and interpretive.

Very nice effort Sluggo, but I'm afraid you're on the wrong track.  The infamous video is the one where they dubbed Kantor calling people in Indiana the n-word. The video your looking through just has a subtitle with Kantor calling Indianians s***.

The infamous video was posted sometime yesterday morning. The problem is that youtube took down the video, so I haven't been able to findout the user yet. The early diaries on KOs about it are gone too, so there's even less info to work with.

In my opinion, the key to finding the trolls is to find out the youtube user who posted the original, and the users who first posted it on KOs and other sites.

Here's a link to the fake video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_nQOHj_ _s

Over-eager dupe? Or co-conspirator?

As someone who has worked ops research, this has "professional" stamped all over it. I mean, your average, everyday person 1) sought out "The War Room" and 2) knew exactly which segment they needed? Nah.

More likely is that an ops researcher turned up the "Indiana is shit" misquotes from long-ago movie reviews, assumed they were accurate (which is the mark of BAD ops research) uploaded the video after a few "enhancements," and then put the team to work propagating it with the understanding if they get caught, the campaign doesn't know who they are.

The scumbags also blogged it repeatedly on the Indianapolis Star website and called it in to local radio.  This was too good, too fast, to be anything but a professional job.  

SlowPoke (no recs, no comments, no other posts, just the one) posted the vid on Thu May 01, 2008 at 03:42:43 PM PDT.

Therefore, the ratfucking was planned at least one week before that. (Alternatively, somebody just happened to have an empty Kos account activated, which stinks even worse of an organized plan.)

This needs to get over to Ben Smith @ Politico who had the youtube user who posted it and the "editor" talking to him, about why it wasn't a fake.

I would also send it over to Josh Marshall who despite being in the tank for Obama, had a gut feeling about the video and wouldn't post on it.
Your research is invaluable.

"How crashing the gates, became destroying the House."

I can see the downfall now.

Great work- I hope these trolls go to jail!

There are about a million 'infamous videos" on Youtube. Which one are you talking about?