Okay, sure, I’ll fall for it and link to An October Surprise website
A reader writes:
Good morning! Any guesses as to what this referencing????
The tweets for the website (private to protect their sources) say the campaign knows about it and is scared. “It has the potential to change the election into a landslide.” This will come out right before the last debate on Monday and I would guess if it is truly something, it will shake the guilty one to the core (fingers crossed it is Obama).
I can’t see anti-Obama voters suddenly voting for him en masse after we have documented his illegal moves for the last 4 yrs (they would stay home if anything) but I could see some Obama voters seeing the light. Some, alas, will NEVER see the light even if he killed Hillary on the White House lawn in broad daylight by chewing off her head high on bath salts, as long as they get their freebies.
The link is to An October Suprise, which promises a game changing document release on October 22, just before the final debate:
One of your presidential candidates isn’t being honest with you. Stay tuned to find out which one it is.
The webite even has a countdown clock:
The game changer is being teased on Twitter with tweets like these:
‘This has the propensity to turn this election from a nail-biter into the biggest electoral landslide since 1984′ – our source
— October Surprise (@OctSurprise) October 15, 2012
At the debate tonight, one candidate might look exceptionally nervous. They already know what the #octsurprise is.
— October Surprise (@OctSurprise) October 16, 2012
Update 10-19-2012: In the An October Surprise hoax there was a truth.
Comments
Having read so many things about Obama that tinge on the word conspiracy – but truth has a funny way of escaping when the ship is about to sink and I believe Obama is leading from behind the sinking ship of his administration.
Actually the “October Surprise” is playing out right in front of us now. Funny what those undecided voters pay attention too…
And all Crowley did was focus attention on an issue the President really does not want focus on. Her “help” will in the end help Romney, not the candidate she is pulling for.
I concur, EBL
Yep, I saw the original post and link and clicked on it and saw the countdown…Intriguing, yes, but then again one sees so many, “Hey! Come check out my website! I wanna be the next big thing!” posts and links…I guess we’ll see.
I wouldn’t read too much into it. Since there is a fuzzy page posted on Buzzfeed (won’t link those people) I suspect that it is more dirty tricks from the Chicago crowd.
Probably another forgery like the Bush National Guard memos that brought down Dan Rather.
It could be the most ingenious GEICO ad yet.
I should clarify that. I’m not just being a smart alec. A friend is a real estate agent and during every election season, he places a roadside sign in the middle of the political signs that says “Elect [insert name] your real estate agent.” It’s brilliant, standing out from the other ads, and capitalizing on their efforts. Someone may be doing something similar here.
My money is on Pizza hut.
I have been waiting all campaign season for the Dems to drag out a female who will claim she had an affair with Romney. Possibly a former Ma. government employee.
Maybe it’s an old love letter to Larry Sinclair.
This has an ‘Anonymous’ or ‘WikiLeaks’ feeling to it.
I won’t visit the page, but it is common for those who have nefarious Internet intent (spammers or worse) to simply use a page landing as a means to gather information for later use. They rely on those Windows users (and to a growing extent Mac’s newer OS) who aren’t utilizing robust enough protection. I’m not saying I have any knowledge, but this ominous tease certainly has similar traits to other tactics and schemes. Just beware.
I wouldn’t touch that site with a ten-foot pole!
It smells like someone is threatening to release a tax-related document on Romney. What ever happened to that group that claimed to have hacked into his private tax records at an accounting firm and threatened/extorted to release stuff if he didn’t pay up?
The image released does appear to be a tax form. Blurry, to be sure, but my best guess is that it’s page one of a completed f1065 “US Return of Partnership Income” form.
It could alternatively be a modified 706 “Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Return” form. The structure seems to be wrong for that form, though.
If this is in regard to Romney’s taxes, this is probably some yahoo who doesn’t have the slightest clue about how tax laws work and thinks he’s got something because it shows that the partnership paid no income taxes. If that is the case then we are going to have to have a discussion on the minutia of tax law and why “partnership” income is reported as personal income because of pass-through taxation.
The blurred “teaser” image appears to be a tax return: http://www.buzzfeed.com/wiowsa/one-of-your-presidential-candidates-isnt-being-ho-4afz
I concur. See above.
I wonder why you got a negative comment rating?
What if the form is a 1040NR, a form used by nonresident aliens and what if the name on the form was Soetoro, Barry??
IMHO, there is not a 1040 tax return form that could hurt Mitt Romney – even one that showed zero taxes owed.
I’m in agreement with the prof. There is no revelation that could even remotely result in a landslide for Obama. Romney, yes… there is plenty.
I was starting to ask, after last evening, if Obama is “throwing it.” Are the Dem party heavyweights pressuring him to lose?? (Still trying to figure out this Hillary “buck stops here” statement. And the MSM’s admission that their own candidate is not doing so well.)
This is the third place I’ve read this theory:
Did Obama Stage Benghazi Attack?
http://www.westernjournalism.com/october-surprise-gone-horribly-wrong/
I’ve also seen this in a couple of different places now, and I’ve seen a couple of critical analyses of it.
I tend to agree with the critical analyses, though: there are just too many moving parts necessary to do this without someone, somewhere leaking the fact that it was done. That person would be able to name names of who was directly involved in the negotiations. There are security contracts to change, contact with embassy officials, contact with foreign officials, contact with terrorist couriers and/or management. It would be a really big black-op to keep under wraps.
It wouldn’t have to be a two way conspiracy. If Obama knew the attack was coming, he, being the superior super-genius that he is, would assume that they would take the Ambassador hostage. He could then look all presidential by negotiating the ambassador’s release or sending in “seal team six” to rescue him. But the terrorists were all terroristy and killd Stevens instead.
Let’s face it – the Democrats want to win. They don’t care how. They’ll win dirty more than likely if they so. I’m sure whatever they have up their sleeve, it will be coordinated with their lapdog media in the final stretch on the campaign.
Romney and the RNC have to be prepared. Period. Buy half- or full-hour blocks of television time if need be to counter it. Yes we have cable and satellite television, as well internet, whether owned or through using hot-spots. But a good portion of the American people still get their news from the broadcast networks, and their local and state metropolitan newspapers. They’ve got to buy blocks of television time a la Ross Perot if it comes to it.
First, there’s nothing on Romney. So if there is “something”, it’s spurious and won’t hold up. Therefore it would be released a few days before the election, not October.
As for Obama, what more could possibly become public knowledge and matter? He shouldn’t even have security clearance to visit the White House; that he’s our president is the scandal of all scandals in American history. But we’re all seemingly innured to this by now.
If there is a surprise, it will be the first week in November. At the least, more cooked labor statistics. At the most — let your imagination run. A Libyan bombing? An Iran bombing? A cyber-security scare that forces shutdown of the internet (remember, Panetta was seeding the cyber-threat recently).
I felt a strong intuitive reaction to this website and twitter account.
That being… It has the hacktivist group Anonymous’ forensics all over it.
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
meh… site bait
Well, lets look at the clues…
1. Release will be prior to the Foreign Policy Debate
2. Image looks much like an official government memo (notice the blurred logo in the left hand corner, and format)
3. It will refute what has been publicly said.
All signs point to Benghazi. Obama has said he didn’t know it was terror, nor were they aware of security requests. He has publicly said this several times explicitly. Releasing an official memo that clearly shows the White House knew both of a planned attack and security requests will play best right before a foreign policy debate. I am betting on an official White House memo exposing Obama’s lies on Benghazi and revealing what he knew from day one.
Or even better, arming of the mexican drug cartels ordered by Obama
Now THAT would be something. Direct evidence linking #OccupyResoluteDesk to Fast & Furious, that he had both direct knowledge AND a hand in direction would be DEVASTATING to the Obama reelection.
With that, there wouldn’t be a single border county that would go for Obama, and it would likely result in a sweep of the lower state and county races down ticket from the backlash (individuals are still being shot in cross-border gunfire where I live in El Paso, TX).
Even more devastating, if the President had a hand in the cold blooded murder of innocent people including US Law Enforcement Officers, it could easily turn into a 50 state sweep.
Or a direct wire from Benghazi Consulate to the State Dep. or White House prior (days prior) to the attack noting terrorism or urgent security needs.
Even if this isn’t a hoax, it isn’t about obastard. Anybody with anything on obastard would just hold it and shut up until the most opportune time, like a grownup. If somebody has something on someone, it’s lefty hacker-punks with something on Romney. Most likely it doesn’t add up to a hill of beans, if it actually exists. But I think it’s a hoax to draw traffic/get info. It’s bait.
The blurred image looks more like a tax return than a memo, so it’s probably something on Romney, but I don’t know if something like that will hurt him. After all, the press will withhold judgement until the document can be properly vetted – right? Oh, wait…
As far as the October Surprise site is concerned – not going near it. Sounds malicious to me.
Interesting. The teaser image that they posted in their twitter feed (http://t.co/cxtql58Y) looks different than the document they link to at Buzzfeed (http://www.buzzfeed.com/wiowsa/one-of-your-presidential-candidates-isnt-being-ho-4afz).
All the WHOIS info on the octsurprise website is private because they appear to have used a third party to register the domain (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/octsurprise.com), but I wanted to follow what trail there was, if any, with the Buzzfeed poster.
The buzzfeed image appears to have been posted by a person with the handle WIOPSA which appears to stand for “What Is Occupy Wall Street About” (http://www.buzzfeed.com/wiowsa). Their profile links to whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com. WHOIS info doesn’t reveal the name of the individual that registered the (now expired) domain, but it does have an email address (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com). This same email address is associated with another domain name registration (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/scatterfamily.com) that does list the account owner who appears to live in the Chicago area. A Google search did turn up a result for a person by that name who worked in that area (http://media.illinois.edu/images/_docs/alumni/alumninews_W08.pdf) who is or was an IT creative director for a TV channel, but I don’t know that they’re the same person. You can do a Google search yourself to see what other results come up – there were plenty of others.
Now, Just because the twitter account linked to the Buzzfeed image doesn’t mean the two are associated. And just because the person that posted the image at buzzfeed linked to the occupy website doesn’t mean they are related either. So the connections are tenuous and may not mean anything, but that’s all there was to go on.
The Buzzfeed image is absolutely a tax return (1040 p. 1). No clue what the Twitter image is.
Maybe. It might be a 1065 or a 706. See above.
The Twitter photo looks very much like the standard format for forms published by Commonwealth of Massachusetts administrative agencies – with the Massachusetts shield occupying the upper left corner. For example: Mitt Romney’s initial Office of Campaign Finance filing http://ocpf.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/filers/13896/13896-cpf101-1-032002.pdf. Or a Public Charities filing for Bain Childrens Fund http://tinyurl.com/cnygf2g.
*wiowsa
WhatIsOccupyWallStreetAbout
WIOWSA has a reddit account http://www.reddit.com/user/wiowsa
Only two posts, one about this ‘oct surprise’ and another one about Obama and his relationship with Rev. Wright.
The ewhois entry for Octsurprise under the DNS tab shows that the SOA is scatter.scatterfamily.secureserver.net.
http://www.ewhois.com/scatterfamily.com/ -
Octsuprise tweeted yesterday that WIOWSA belongs to one of his “Devs” (Developers?)
Cached Buzzfeed of WIOWSA referring to tweetemback and partisilator:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Cuh7IkU7l8J:www.buzzfeed.com/wiowsa+whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com+politican+tweets&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Cached webpage for whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i1JKoKN1H7oJ:www.whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com/+whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com+politican+tweets&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Same registrant (Deftone) owns whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com, tweetemback.com and probably partislator.com because both pages have the same web content. At Dailykos – there is a Partislator pushing these sites: http://www.dailykos.com/blog/partislator
If you look at Partislator’s posts at Dailykos, most recent one is about Octobersurprise! http://www.dailykos.com/user/partislator/comments
Cached FB page also refers to Deftones, IL and a cable TV related website.
Based on the other comments and the update, it looks like the Jeff Hopwood that’s mentioned in the last two links was connected after all. I’m glad folks were able to figure it out before any of us wasted any more time on it.
Whatever it is — even if it is some monumental revelation about Romney — Obama won’t get the “biggest electoral landslide since 1984″ out of it.
That year Ronald Reagan absolutely destroyed Walter Mondale carrying 49 of the 50 states in his RE-election. That is an impossible feat for Barack Obama to accomplish already in this election.
Oh well — for all we know this thing will be greatly blown out of proportion and the whole country will be sitting around their computers anticipating the reveal like the whole country sat around their TV’s when Geraldo Rivera took a giant steaming dump on the boob-toob over Al Capone’s ‘vault’ — and it could just as easily be the same result.
I — for one — won’t be waiting with bated breath to find out, either. I’m not a puppet on a string. Besides — if it is so colossally mind bending — it will be in the news everywhere.
Oops. I have to correct myself…
…UNLESS — these are documents proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that Mitt Romney is somehow INELIGIBLE to run for and become POTUS. And that will be the one and only way that Ronald Reagan’s 1984 can be outdone by Obama — by technicality.
Well, removing his opponent through ineligibility is hallmark obastard style. I’m not saying I think that’s what it is or that there’s even something “there”, just pointing out o’s methods.
Can’t remember where I saw it (maybe Breitbart) but supposedly it came from someone who “recently left the administration”. I also think it’s linkbait but it’s supposedly about Obama.
[…] A reader points this out to Professor Jacobson […]
It’s phony-baloney. There’s no app for it, ergo it doesn’t exist.
I think we all know that it’s going to be something about Romney. Anything on Obama would just have been released by who found it – registering a website and hyping things isn’t really the right’s style.
Coupling that with the fact that one of the documents is tax-related, I’m thinking something to do with Bain. Romney still officially works with them, maybe?
Either way, I can’t see it causing a landslide either way. Something that proves Romney has been dishonest and/or hypocritical MIGHT be enough to turn undecideds back to Obama, but speaking for myself there is nothing that could be revealed that would make me (or most of the commenters here, I reckon) vote for O.
The big surprise will happen in November when Obama becomes a “Lame Duck” and starts to issue all kinds of Executive Orders on all of his most favorite Socialist agenda items. Plus Obama will also pardon a whole slew of people, including I suspect the Gitmo prisoners just to show his Islamic friends that he’s really a great fellow; won’t that be a kick. So, good friends, wait for Obama’s November, December, and January 19th surprises.
Realize that a president’s pardon power is absolute and cannot be overturned and I suspect SCOTUS would absolutely apply it to the Gitmo prisoners. There was great discussion way back then regarding the pardon power and its supporters overcame its detractors.
How about a poll, Professor Jacobson?
Who’s behind the surprise?
( ) The Dems
( ) The GOP
( ) Breitbart
( ) Ann Barnhardt
( ) The North Koreans
( ) Other
Hey, I’d be for one, except I tried to select “Other” and it didn’t work.
Other
I’m about worn and nothing much would surprise me. Obama is a cross-dresser? Nope. Michelle has a fetish for chocolate? Nope. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi (oh, I cringe at the thought) have been having an affair for years? Nope.
Obama and Biden resign. Hillary assumes the presidency, takes Obama’s place on the ballot, and wins. According to prior agreement, she appoints Obama as ambassador to the U.N. (hey, why try to transform one country when you get the opportunity to work on the world) and Biden gets assigned to the International Space Station (heck, he almost lives in space anyway). Surprise me? Nope. Might raise an eyebrow, even both. Yet, little that could surprise me. Perhaps I’ve become sated with cynicism.
Unless Barry is irrevocably and publicly disgraced, I’ve predicted he’ll reappear as Secretsry-General of the UN.
Which would be another example offering some validity to the Peter Principle.
Possible October Surprise revelations:
Chick-fil-A uses gay poultry.
Bears actually shit in meadows.
Jimmy Hoffa last seen in 1975 with notorious 27 yr old Detroit street tough Willard ‘Mitt’ Romney.
Candy Crowley not a Republican.
First Family Obama receives food stamps and free cell phones.
US states 51-57 revealed.
MSNBC on-air personnel have USB ports in back of necks for quicker downloading of Democrat talking points.
This scares the heck out of me.
Remember the Bush 2000 DWI?
This could dwarf it.
I do SO wish these hateful, vicious people would just go away. Move to some Socialist Paradise, instead of trying to turn the USA into one.
That’s been my fear…
I’m still curious about what that crazy Vegas odds maker, Wayne Allen Root, had to say. He said, “I received a call from Charles Johnson of Breitbart telling me that he was looking at proof that Barack Obama had become an Indonesian citizen. That was a couple months ago.
I don’t like to be the grammar police, but I did notice that the “source” isn’t too sharp when it comes to correct word usage. According to that tweet, the unknown information has the preference or inclination (i.e., propensity) to turn a nail-biter into a landslide. That doesn’t make sense.