Lies=truth, propaganda=journalism
They just can’t help themselves, it would seem:
When WGN-AM Radio in Chicago scheduled a two-hour interview last week with David Freddoso, who wrote “The Case Against Barack Obama,” the campaign sent out an alarm to supporters, sparking an avalanche of angry phone calls to the station.
The case against Freddoso, according to the Obama Wire Alert, was that he’s a “card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine.” And by hosting him, WGN was giving a wider audience for Freddoso’s “baseless lies.”
Lies? In a political campaign?! And baseless lies at that!
Within the growing anti-Obama literary school, Freddoso isn’t the most extreme. But he clearly misstates facts. For example, he claims that Obama favors infanticide. False.
He doesn’t favor it – he just voted for it, that’s all. Nice try, liar.
While writing rebuttal after rebuttal online, the campaign and its supporters have been threatening television stations and networks with boycotts of sponsors and legal action for airing a commercial produced by this year’s reincarnation of the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for “Truth.” (The quotation marks are mine, not theirs.)
Then perhaps you could point to one — 1 — example where the SwiftVets were proven wrong on the facts, thereby justifying your misleading sneer quotes? Because to date no other “honest” “journalist”– nor anyone else — has been able to.
Backed by the same Texas billionaire, Harold Simmons, who helped pay for the Swift Boat campaign and is maxing out on contributions to the McCain-Palin campaign, the American Issues Project has produced and is buying air time for a commercial that ties Obama to a 1960s radical who admits to helping bomb the U.S. Capitol in 1971, William Ayers.
Which proud “admission” is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Ayers’ violent, treasonous, and yet-unrepented past, and which assertion of close and longstanding ties with Obama also happens to be, y’know, the simple truth.
Senator John Kerry, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee, couldn’t imagine his Vietnam War service and the medal he won for it could be successfully attacked as he campaigned against a president who used his father’s connections to avoid combat altogether.
Except for that whole pesky volunteering-for-combat-duty thing. Another opinion presented as fact, from just another damnable liar.
So the Swift Boat claims ricocheted around cable networks and radio talk shows for weeks before they got a rise out of the Kerry campaign. By the time fact-checkers debunked the claims, the damage had been done.
Nobody has ever debunked those claims, as stated above. Nobody. Brazen, audacious liar.
(Ann Woolner is a Bloomberg news columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.)
And the opinions presented as “fact” in this hypocritical, self-righteous mess of a column are anything but factual. Despite her laudable discomfort with Obama’s attempted suppression of the truth about him and his unsavory associations, this liberal-media “journalist” has every bit as much integrity and credibility as a whore in a nun’s habit.
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