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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (81952)	6/29/2010 3:55:32 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Sounds like a fascist witch hunt to me, something dems do all the time. look at their latest Democrats Organize ‘Trackers,’ Seek ‘Macaca’ Moments by Publius From today’s Politico: d691ba-bobetheridge1p The Democratic National Committee is seeking “Macaca” moments. The party today is opening a website, www.accountabilityproject.com, designed to recruit and display embarrassing audio and video of Republican candidates, as well as information about their schedules and copies of their mailers. Campaigns have long made videotapes of each other, using “trackers” who follow the opposition from event to event. It was a young tracker who shot the video footage of then-Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) that wound up sinking his campaign. The DNC hopes campaigns and journalists will use the footage in ads and news coverage. The site targets both 2010 candidates and 2012 hopefuls. “[R]egular citizens can upload video or audio they’ve captured at pubic campaign events, and they can upload event information for upcoming campaign appearances by Republican candidates so others can attend and hold Republicans accountable of they don’t tell the truth.,” a DNC official said. “Unlike YouTube where you can only upload video, … users can download high quality videos from the site for clipping and using for their own projects (web videos, ads, etc).” A DNC official said the party will screen the video “for inappropriate content, authenticity, etc. We don’t want people trying to make something out of something that didn’t happen by splicing the video — we want good raw footage of authentic moments on the trail.” The site will be launched Tuesday with a mass e-mail from DNC Research Director Shauna Daly, with the subject line, “The Accountability Project: Hold Republicans accountable.” Continue reading here. A couple of weeks ago, when we broke the story about Rep. Etheridge roughing up some student videographers, Democrats and the media were obsessed with finding the students in the video and determining whether they were employed by the GOP. The DNC even issued talking points, arguing that Etheridge’s behavior would be excused if the students were campaign operatives. We await such hand-wringing if a GOP member is embarrassed on video this summer