McCain aide apologizes to India after YouTube gaffe on Iraqi TV. This is just one of the questions I asked McCain advisor Martin Eisenstadt about during Part 7 of my BBC expose, "The Last Republican." I also confront Marty with the internet rumors that he is some sort of a fraud. Indignant and paranoid, he accuses a particular blogger of being a stalker. The Indian story is interesting in that it has never been reported in the western media. When I was researching, I found that every newspaper in India ran this story that was picked up on the Indian news services:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3216132.cms
It was all based on this YouTube clip where Marty appeared on Iraqi TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L27uHysoQP0

This is my docu series I did for the BBC following Martin Eisenstadt, conservative blogger and McCain insider, as he stumps for McCain in LA. He's the guy who just leaked that Joe "The Plumber" is related to Charles Keating of Keating Five fame.

It being an election year, BBC asked me to do a piece on celebrity and politics and how they intersect here in the States. This was around the time that the McCain campaign was running an ad comparing Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. In pursuing my research, I contacted the pundit/blogger, Martin Eisenstadt, who first broke this story. I followed him for a day of campaigning when he visited Los Angeles. I quickly realized that Eisenstadt was my story. Already something of an internet mystery (he's been called a "fraud" and even worse) it turns out that in addition to being a blogger and a pundit, he's a McCain surrogate, a war profiteer and a bit of a randy bloke all around. Let's see if he gets under your skin as he got under mine.

Here's a link to his blog: http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com