The question was: Who was behind it? Who benefits from such a video? From the comment section to the post by Maha comes this most sentient statement by former Marine D.R. Marvel:

But if this bloke is a phony, chances are he's a "plant"...As were so many of J. Edgar's COINTELPRO-phylactics back in the day...

It worked pretty well for them back then...One thing you can be sure of about the RW: they never get tired of "Old Tricks"...And their audience never fails to fall for them...

It's an important point to remember, since all propaganda has a goal, and understanding that goal, and what it achieves, one is able to understand who is behind that propaganda.

Think about it. A video is offered on the internet. Right-wing propagandists, all versed in defined tactics of hatred for all things not of their liking, make a pointed (and very predictable) stand that the video is a bonifide example of Liberal hatred for the common soldier, is all the rage amongst the Liberal movement when it is clearly not, nor is the fact that the video is a Liberal creation any clearer than whether MacBeth was an Army Ranger. The selctiveness of the right-wing is amazing in this regard. They entirely dismiss the truthfulness and integrity of MacBeth (and by proxy all his statemnts) yet they entirely accept that this obvious piece of propaganda was created with the intent goal of bashing soldiers, rather than the goal of inciting the hatred of the right-wing and / or the suspicion of the left.

Bear in mind, I'm not saying that there is a conspiracy amongst the right-wing blogsphere. What I am saying is that they are being used, their behavior predictable and reliable, to push the "Liberals hate soldiers" meme out into the greater blogsphere and mainstream media. It's what they do and do very well. The rightie blogsphere promotes hatred. It's a cannon for it.

Now, we'll have to wait and see what happens with the man in the video. He holds all the answers.

OK, I'm really ticked off about the Wikipedia article about "Jesse Macbeth" refered to in Anatomy of an Anti-Liberal Viral Video. I love Wikipedia, but when someone tries to inject hoaxes and misinformation into it, I really get steamed.

I would like for the Macbeth article to be a factual article — or at least as factual as possible considering it's a hoax. With a couple of small exceptions, it looks like it was written by a conservative blogger with an agenda. More frustrating is that my edits are being reverted after only a few minutes. The "sources" this article sites are mostly from right-wing blog sites.