Guest Blogger: "Deep Throat."

Haik published my comments on September 4:

The last sentence said: "After some major event, like the Bush or McCain visit, another American Research Group poll will magically appear that will show Tarrant has cut Bernie's lead even more."

Well, there's been two major events. Barbara Bush visited, and Tarrant won the Republican primary. And, now, my prediction has been fulfilled. Magically, American Research Group has published a new poll that shows Tarrant has reduced Bernie's lead to 15%.

Nobody knows who paid for this poll. The people at New Hampshire based American Research Group won't identify their sponsors. Like the last poll, these results are radically different from all other polls.

Here are my next two predictions:

* Tarrant's Fake Blog PoliticsVermont will have a real nice story about how this new poll shows Tarrant is progressing well.

* There will be another American Research Group poll in about a month that shows Bernie's lead down to single digits.

Tarrant is obviously engaged in the practice of Astroturfing. He is trying to engineer the appearance of a grass-roots movement and show support when that support does not really exist. His actions are dishonest and perhaps even criminal.

Republican US Senate nominee Rich Tarrant has released a new ad going after ("going after" PolVT never says Tarrant’s "attacking") Independent Rep. Bernie Sanders vote on a bill dealing with victims rights.

(Note: PolVT calls Tarrant "Republican US Senate nominee" and Bernie "Independent Rep." Why not "Independent US Representative?" Why not "Republican Senate candidate?" PolVT writes it to make Tarrant sound more important, and Bernie less important.)

This is a pretty heavy ad. ("Heavy." Read: It, thus Tarrant has political gravitas.) Expect a strong response from Sanders' campaign. (PolVT Raises expectations of Sanders’s camp vis-à-vis this ad in an effort to diminish the impact of whatever that response is. If there is no response, then Sanders is derelict. Clever.) Click on the picture to view the ad.

Part II- An Analysis of the Propaganda Per Se

In the ad the woman asks "Bernie, who’s right’s are more important- the rapist’s or mine?" Does this mean this woman is a rape victim? If she is and has gone public about what happened to her for the sake of victims’ advocacy, then I applaud her courage. If she has not been a victim of rape, then she’s misleading us when she says "or mine." Is this a real victim being interviewed? Is she being paid for her work on this commercial?

According to the Ad the woman speaking is Lesanne Vincent of Burlington, who has been a resident of Vermont for 43 years. If you just glance at the ad you might think she has lived in Burlington all that time. Like she might even know Bernie personally…. (it’s sick, but this is where SPI, Inc. is leading us.)

Part III- Good Reason to vote "Ney"

Here is the text of the bill this commercial flashes on the screen:

Libertarians? Bueller? First of all we’re talking about suspects here, not convicts. You can’t go taking a person’s blood and medical records just because they are accused of something.

Secondly, this runs right up against science. I’ve always had to wait two weeks to get the results of an AIDS test. Maybe results can come back faster now, but there is still that period of between six weeks and six months when the virus could be incubating and undetectable by the test. And that’s only if you have no sex during that interim between tests. You can’t force six months of something on someone who is merely accused. Who and how would you enforce that anyway? And of course the last thing you want to do is tell a woman who was just raped the guy who did it checks out clean, when he really doesn’t.

This commercial is an outrage and it makes me feel physically ill. Literally. Shame on everyone involved, excepting Lesanne Vincent if she really is a rape victim. If that’s true, she gets a pass. For using this woman, and the pain of rape victims and their families try to gain political advantage, Tarrant gets no pass. No pass.

Decent Vermonters from all political stripes should overwhelmingly repudiate these disgraceful tactics.

By Andy Kaufman, BP Staff Writer

...Greg Parke opened a can of old-fashioned American Whoop-ass on Billionare Ass-wipe Richard Tarrant today as the primary came down to the wire...

...developing story...