Who’s Really Behind Anti-Huntsman “Manchurian Candidate” Video?

Who is responsible for a YouTube video that paints Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman as “The Manchurian Candidate”? On the basis of rather scant evidence, Huntsman was quick to finger supporters of rival candidate Ron Paul. Since then, however, further evidence has called Huntsman’s rush to judgment into serious question, with some observers even suggesting that Huntsman himself — or his daughters, who have been involved in some rather odd videos before — may have uploaded the thing in an effort to garner sympathy and, in turn, votes.

The whole flap began on January 4, when, as the End Run blog put it, “a ridiculous, pathetic joke of a video” entitled “Jon Huntsman’s Values” was posted on YouTube. The amateurish production, which questions whether the candidate’s values are American or Chinese, shows photos of Huntsman in China and clips of him speaking Chinese (both only natural given that he was once U.S. Ambassador to China), images of him with his adopted Chinese and Indian daughters (with the caption “China Jon’s Daughters/Even Adopted?” — whatever that is supposed to mean), and a still picture with Huntsman’s face superimposed over Mao Zedong’s. It concludes with the words “American Values and Liberty/Vote Ron Paul.”

One look at the video is enough to convince anyone that it is certainly not the work of a serious political campaign or someone closely tied to it — anyone, that is, except Huntsman, who seized on the fact that it included that one comment about voting for Ron Paul and was uploaded by a YouTube user known as NHLiberty4Paul. Though he declared the video “stupid,” Huntsman demanded that Paul condemn and disavow it, saying he “object[ed] to” the misuse of the images of his adopted daughters. Even Cindy McCain — wife of Sen. John McCain, who has endorsed Mitt Romney for President — got in on the Paul-bashing action, tweeting: “I deeply resent the video made using the adopted daughters of @johnhuntsman. @ronpaul shame on you.”

via Who’s Really Behind Anti-Huntsman “Manchurian Candidate” Video?.

 

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