The New Right-Wing Smear Machine

The Nation by Christopher Hayes | Nov. 6, 2007 (Special Report)

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 »

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Roland F. Hirsch
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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece is so one-sided it threatens to fall off the edge of even the far-left magazine in which it is printed. More smears have been directed at President Bush than all the "victims" in this piece combined. Perhaps it is a parody of the incessant angry left attacks on the President. No journalistic merit.

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