How long before Fox News uses the N word ...
Looks like Barack Obama isn't going to just sit back and be "swiftboated", ignore smears and think he's above it (like Kerry did).
The Obama campaign recently opened a website dedicated to debunking rightie smears, called "Fight the Smears"...at this site, you can not only find information that thoroughly debunks smears and false rumors, you can take action now and spread the truth to your friends, etc.
It covers lies like Michelle Obama using the word “whitey” from the pulpit of Trinity United, or whether Barack Obama is a Muslim and hiding his birth certificate, etc.
Good idea...but boy howdy the list of rightie smears is gonna be miles long, scrolling could be an issue. Maybe they should break it down into groups:
LimbaughSmears.com
HannitySmears.com
MalkinSmears.com
EDHillSmears.com
OReillySmears.com
Or categories;
1-- Foreign-sounding name
2-- Religious affiliation/soft on Muslims
3-- Speakers at his former church
4-- Campaign appointees
5-- Personal clothing accessories (flag pins, etc.)
6-- Wife's public remarks
7-- Wife's perfect wardrobe
8-- Ivy League elitist
9--Vegetable preferences (arugula, etc.)
10-- Secret love child
What really gets my goat is when Fox News does crap like this:
"June 12, 2008, 5:20 pm
Fox Forced to Address Michelle Obama Headline
Fox Forced to Address Michelle Obama Headline
For the third time in less than three weeks, Fox News Channel has had to acknowledge using poor judgment through inappropriate references to Senator Barack Obama.
The network has released a statement saying it should not have referred to Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle, as “Obama’s Baby Mama,’’ as it did on Wednesday in an on-screen headline commonly called a “chyron.”.....
The chyron ...read in full, “Outraged Liberals: Stop picking on Obama’s baby mama!” ....
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as one “chiefly in African-American usage” that refers to, “The mother of a man’s child, who is not his wife nor (in most cases) his current or exclusive partner.”[..]"
"What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon -- that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first." -- Barack Obama, June 3, 2008
[inhales deeply] Smell that fresh air!
