Australian Murdoch Media Sucked Into International Smear Campaign Against US Presidential Candidate
Murdoch media journalist Mark Schliebs appears to have fallen for a 'fake' press release and run with a story alleging that US presidential candidate Ron Paul is running a 'fake online campaign' :
Serious claims. The journalist is alleging that Ron Paul's campaign office is involved in online fraud.
Firstly, Ron Paul is a Congressman, not a Senator and his online campaigning is now winning plaudits from online media experts and journalists. The only mainstream media journalist to have seriously tried to claim the Paul online campaign is 'fake' is Schlieb, an Australian journalist.
Ron Paul has become a serious thorn in the side of other Republican presidential campaigners, like Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thomspon by actively campaigning against the Federal Reserve, the War On Iraq and the NeoCon-push for a War On Iran. Ron Paul has found a massive audience online, and his speeches and videos are being viewed by hundreds of thousands of Americans on YouTube, where Giuliani and Thomspon are receiving minimal interest. Hence the need to try and discredit Ron Paul's very successful online campaign. So why is the Murdoch media in Australia getting involved?
In an attempt to discredit Ron Paul's online campaign, a person claiming to be a supporter of Fred Thompson says he wrote up a fake press release alleging Ron Paul's office, and/or supporters, were committing online fraud, and sourced a 'Don De Bots' from the American Studies Program at Flinders University as someone worth quoting on the subject of online campaigning.
But there is no Don De Bots at Flinders University. There is a Don DeBats, who Schlieb claims to have talked to in this story. This whole story is getting a bit weird. We've contacted Schlieb, but haven't yet heard back from him.
Here's the proclaimed Fred Thomspon supporter 'I Love Hannity' admitting to the fake press release and laughing that a news editor was "stupid enough to publish it" :
I submitted a fake news story about Ron Paul and his online campaign. I used one of the free news release services and it just got published. Ha Ha!
It's only in an australian newspaper but im sure the us media will pick it up soon.
What do you think of my fake name? I'm Professor De Bots. Get it .. de bots..
Here's the paper it was published in:
http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story...005940,00.html
I can't believe an editor was stupid enough to publish it. I'm very proud of myself.
The 'Senator Using Fake Online Campaign' story by Mark Schliebs has now gone out in major city Australian newspapers, including Australia's largest selling daily newspaper, the Herald Sun, and onto numerous other Murdoch media news sites.
Is it really that easy to con the Murdoch media?
Apparently, yes.
More On The Ron Paul Smear Campaign, And Murdoch Media's Involvement In It Here
9 comments:
Will Murdoch media apologize and run a correction?
Yeah right.
They couldn't give a shit. As long as they help keep the decks clear for Giuliani and Bilary.
DeBats must be spewing about being caught up in this fakery.
It seems this supposed Fredhead "I Love Hannity" has just enough snark to have fooled you. Read his forum sig:
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR FRED THOMPSON.
Fred Supports the Draft
Fred supports, and has voted for, more gun control.
Fred voted for the Patriot Act.
Fred will increase Torture of terrorists!
Fred will NUKE the iranian scum off the planet.
Fred will send all Muslims to GITMO
Fred has a 22 year old hot wife
FRED SUPPORTS THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION
Who but the dogmatically drugged out Fredhead would take this seriously. This is what is known as cointelpro. It's funny, I suppose, but I don't approve of these tactics. Most Ron Paul supporters have a good sense of humor, but are a bit more honest in their approach. We don't need this kind of murky intrigue.
Anonymous, the fact is the story that Ron Paul is pulling online fraud published in the Herald Sun and other newspapers is pure crud. All the rest is spin and confusion. And you're right, that's probably no accident. The layers of deceit are growing thicker aren't they?
This rocks for Ron Paul. The many people in Australia who have never heard of him sure have now.
This goes for other people all over the world.
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
And Murdoch is a turdbag.
I believe the journo did a big favour for Ron Paul. His story had links to Ron Paul videos. His message is getting out.
Censorship and lies dominate in Murdoch's OZ newspapers. They are not alone. Even in the US, censorship is becoming our favorite past-time. The US gov't (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down a CNBC poll because Ron Paul was winning and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever.
Last link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
I thought the same thing about the fact that the story had links to the youtube videos but the printed copies won't. Overall I think it is a good thing though. Who wouldn't support Ron Paul after finding out that he wants to lower income taxes to ZERO!!! Of course the gov't could still function. How else did we get along in the 150 years or so before the income tax was created?
I wonder about the possibility that I Love Hannity could be a disinfo agent, but the public bragging?
You see, this is the reason Murdoch left Australia...we can't stand the man!!
It's an impossibility for this man to keep his nose out of politics.
And remember one thing about Rupert Murdoch, Zionist Extraordinaire, when he was asked by the media why he moved to the US.
"You can't control the World from Australia", were his exact words!!
The press in Australia isn't saying anything more than what CNBC said, ie, he can't *really* have that much support, therefore there must be fraudulent activity. The article is still on the website, and the spelling error has been amended (to de Bats), and in fact the article has been extended. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22573751-401,00.html
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