Via Instapundit comes an interesting observation from the National Republican Senatorial Committee:

Yesterday, our friends at the DSCC tweeted this “important message for New Hampshire.” It linked to a hidden “message” page on Jeanne Shaheen’s website providing what seems to be a script with research and high resolution images of the Senator that would be the type that commonly appear in political ads run by outside groups like Harry Reid’s Majority PAC. Remember, coordination between the DSCC and these outside groups is prohibited by law.

Turns out that over the last few months, we’ve picked up on the fact that each time the DSCC sends an “important message” to voters of a battleground state, a liberal outside group quickly adheres to the message by producing an ad to be run on television. In other words, anytime the DSCC sends an “important message,” it is a directive to outside groups to run an “uncoordinated” ad (since, you know coordination would be illegal).

In other words, to avoid the appearance of “coordinating,” it looks like the politicians make a public statement that the outside groups know to be a directive.  That seems very similar to the way Rhode Island’s own U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s anti-Tea Party rhetoric was apparently taken by officials in the IRS and other government agencies as an instruction to target them.