Anti-Clinton Video Draws Web Audience: Produced by a felon, promoted by Swift Boat promoters

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT/AP: Anti-Clinton Video Draws Web Audience
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
October 29, 2007

WASHINGTON -- First came the Orwellian mash up YouTube video that portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. Then came a clip of her off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Now, a stinging 13-minute video by a bitter Clinton foe is finding its own Internet audience. The clip, a preview of a longer film by one-time Clinton donor Peter Paul, has scored more than 1.4 million hits on Google Video and about 350,000 on YouTube during the past week. Its popularity has driven it to the top spot on Google Video over the past two weeks.

Paul is a Hollywood entrepreneur, former partner of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee and convicted felon who has sued the Clintons in connection with a celebrity-packed fundraiser he helped organize for her 2000 Senate race. A California appeals court earlier this month ruled that Sen. Clinton should be dismissed from the suit. But Paul has devoted a Web site to the case and his film, "Hillary Uncensored," in recent days has been touring New England College campuses. On Tuesday, the film is scheduled to be screened at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.

The Clintons have long argued that Paul's criminal record discredits him and in court pleadings have denied Paul's claims against them. "Peter Paul is a professional liar who has four separate criminal convictions, two for fraud. His video repackages a series of seven-year-old false claims about Senator Clinton that have already been rejected by the California state courts, the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission, and the Senate Ethics Committee," the Clinton campaign said in a statement.

Paul's anti-Clinton effort is getting help from two technical producers who set up the Web site for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the 2004 campaign that went after Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry by raising questions about his decorated military service in Vietnam. Robert Hahn and Scott Swett operate http://www.HillCAP.org, the Web site that Paul set up in 2005 to showcase court documents, videos and news articles related to his lawsuit. The video trailer "Hillary Uncensored," and the schedule for the movie are prominently displayed on the site.

Among those featured in the video speaking in support of Paul is David Schippers, who served as chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during President Clinton's 1998 impeachment hearings....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top14oct29,0,509681.story?coll=la-ap-topnews-headlines

[Clintonista2]

1. A week

I give it a week before the video is linked on DU.

[BootinUp]

4. too late.

I saw it here a week ago or so.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Why Would They Turn On A Fellow Republican?

These people have no shame.

[Clintonista2]

5. Because they can support the more RW republicans, like Obama?

And his friend McClurkin?

[BootinUp]

3. Hey, some fool posted that here not too long ago. n/t

[Bitwit1234]

6. Well the money is in making something to bash Hillary because

assholes will support it. So anything they can do to make money they will.