Martin Eisenstadt

Martin Eisenstadt

Martin Eisenstadt is the pseudonym of an anonymous writer who hoaxed major media organizations, posing as an adviser to the McCain campaign. He claims to be a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, also a fake... [more]

Martin Eisenstadt is the pseudonym of an anonymous writer who hoaxed major media organizations, posing as an adviser to the McCain campaign. He claims to be a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, also a fake organization. Find more information about Martin Eisenstadt here.

 
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Today the story ripped around the blogosphere and cable news outlets that one of the McCain aides that have until now been anonymously disparaging Sarah Palin has stepped out from behind the curtain: Martin Eisenstadt. At his blog, Eisenstadt reveals that he was "a foreign policy adviser on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden." He goes on to say that Palin "simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. ... Read Full Story
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Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Martin Eisenstadt". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article! Read Full Story
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I AM MARTIN EISENSTADT DISCUSSION & SIGNING The John McCain adviser who let slip during the 2008 campaign that Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country talks about his political adventures. Saturday, November 7 7PM. Free. Atomic Books. Hampden, Baltimore....  
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Josh Green makes his pick. From his review of fake McCain adviser Martin Eisenstadt's new book: What’s consistently funny about the book is that for all that Martin Eisenstadt is an obvious parody, there is a striking similarity between his...  
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy adviser to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign, “remains unemployed — and his COBRA health coverage is running out,” the Washington Post reports. “Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he has one of those [...]  
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Nicolle Wallace, who was a senior adviser in the McCain campaign, says that Sarah Palin's depictions of her and former campaign director Steve Schmidt "took place entirely in her imagination."  
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Globe and Mailmccain adviser: Palin's book is fictionmsnbc.comNEW YORK - Former mccain campaign senior adviser Nicolle Wallace says Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" is "based on fabrications," and that the basis for Palin's depictions of her and former mccain campaign director Steve Schmidt as villains "took ...Fact check: Palin's book goes rogue on some factsSan Jose Mercury NewsAP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact...  
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As the junkies may remember, in the days just after the defeat of the McCain-Palin ticket a man named Martin Eisenstadt turned up and claimed to have been an advisor to the campaign and the anonymous source of Fox’s Carl Cameron’s reporting that Palin did not know the signatories to NAFTA, nor that Africa was a country, and not a...  
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Martin Eisenstadt’s new memoir, One Man’s (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans, is essential reading for political junkies. Some readers of this blog may recall that Eisenstadt worked for the McCain campaign, heads up the Hardy Institute for Freedom and Democracy, and is a noted political pundit who can be seen in YouTube videos discoursing on a range of important topics. In the book, Eisenstadt reveals heretofore...  
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