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Have you seen this? UPDATE: Partially solved

Bizarre new attack ad on Obama

Attytood reports:

Have any other Philadelphians seen a brand new anti-Obama attack ad that seems to have been literally dropped on Pennsylvania in the very final hours of the campaign? I saw it late last night on ESPN as I was falling asleep (like any true 49-year-old guy!) and it just aired again on the 10 a.m. rerun of "The Daily Show."

It's man-on-the-street type interviews with young voters in an urban, Philly-looking, setting. "Can you tell us your favorite Obama policy?," an off-screen narrator asks a couple of befuddled young voters, while a third young adult babbles something about "hope and vision." Then words are stamped on the screen: "You don't know Bama"...at least that what it looked like, I didn't see an "O" -- weird.

It says the ad is paid for by Morgan Warstler.

This 2000 article from Los Angeles magazine identifies him as a young "junk mail mogul":

This high-school-with-money model became the norm at Web shops like LOADtv, cofounded by a 29-year-old junk-mail mogul named Morgan Warstler. Flush with venture capital, Warstler rented an old bank building on the Sunset Strip and filled it with staff from his native Canton, Ohio. Former and current employees say they logged 75-hour workweeks producing Web programming targeted at what current CEO Jack Kennedy calls "low-hanging fruit" -- Gen Y computer nerds and skate punks.

I can't find any news about this ad, and oddly I couldn't find it on YouTube. Can anyone help with this one?

UPDATE: A March 2007 Vanity Fair article identified Warstler as "a thirtysomething entrepreneur who dabbles as a conservative operative" and says he's a close friend of Andrew Breitbart, longtime contributor to the Drudge Report.

UPDATE II: Hey, crowdsourcing works -- an alert reader helped track the ad down to its source.

You can watch it here.

It's a product of something that the above-mentioned Warstler is involved in called Saysme.tv, and here is a description of the venture: