Such is the power of the right-wing smear forward, a vehicle for the dissemination of character assassination that has escaped the scrutiny directed at the Limbaughs and Coulters and O'Reillys but one that is as potent as it is invisible. In 2004 putative firsthand accounts of Kerry's performance in Vietnam traveled through e-mail in right-wing circles, presaging the Swift Boat attacks. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The subject of this report is probably the most under reported political story of the past 10 years. Sites like Drudge, The Politico and media pages "The Note" and "First Read" provide the oxygen these slug groups need to achieve main stream status. Journalists are perpetual mirror observers, reevaluating everything they do in panels and roundtables, however, this is one area they MUST take a hard look at their complicity in harboring and encouraging the loss of what is a fact.
