The New Right-Wing Smear Machine »
Posted By bruhaha 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsA web-savvy form of conservative propaganda, written anonymously and forwarded via email, is altering the political landscape.
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bruhaha1 year, 8 months ago
If you've ever wondered where some of the right-wingers get there info, this may be it.
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 8 months ago
I don't recall ever getting a smear type email. I've had some good jokes forwarded from friends. You have to take all emails from unknown sources with a grain of salt. Most of us, liberal and conservative alike are capable of sorting out the BS from the real thing. There are a few who will believe anything if it coincides with their beliefs. How about you? Are you skeptical across the board when you hear/see something that reinforces your beliefs or discredits those who you disagree with?
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NoWayMan1 year, 8 months ago
not amazed that the right would lie and use the web to smear an opponent.
but I am amazed that the right is ready and willing to use a group like the gold star mothers to do it.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 8 months ago
They have no shame! They'll smear war heroes and 9-11 widows, and then turn around and use flag covered caskets as background for political ads.
They have to use these ugly tactics to defeat their opponents because they have no policies or positions that can be rationally argued as in the best interests of those whose votes they are courting.
The repug party is only in power because they figured out that character assassination and wedge issues work and got very good at them. They have hijacked religion and use it to produce anger and fear in the religious right so they will all come out and vote for them.
They claim a higher moral ground (family "values," anti gay etc.), but the actual fact is they are morally bankrupt hypocrites that use religion and fear as a weapon.
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crespi1 year, 8 months ago
Don't be so modest.
Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, L. Brent Bozell, Reverend Pat Robertson, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, (the Late) Reverend Jerry Falwell, Glen Beck, Brit Hume, Michelle Malkin, Jon Gibson, Dinesh D'Souza, Bill Crystal, Newt Gingrich....
The Right has a MUCH BETTER STAFF of lying haters than the Left ever could.
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NoWayMan1 year, 8 months ago
does the left lie? sure.
but I've never seen the left do anything like the smearing of john mccain, or the swift boaters, or how a group like the gold star mothers were used for deceitful purposes.
I've never seen the left be as hateful as ann coulter, sean hannity or bill o'reilly.
I've never seen the left steal a presidency.
I've never seen the left trying to destroy the constitution.
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Klarissa1 year, 8 months ago
At last, a repub group that is equal to moveon.org. Everyone seemed to want balanced news. lolol
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Grrr1 year, 8 months ago
MoveOn is a crock and does nothing for the Liberal movement except for blunt it into ineffectiveness.
How many Dems out there really felt like "Moving On" after the 2000 elections? Or 2004? Or thought after ANY of their ad campaigns "oh yeah, that's what they should have blown that money to say"? BS!!
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obiefrommuskogee1 year, 8 months ago
The problem is that if the "propaganda" (cuz that is what it is) is not from an established news source, how do you hold someone accountable in court? Slander? Libel?
These people DO need to be held accountable for slandering or libeling someone's name, reputation, or character. That is what the laws are there for.
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joeeddie1 year, 8 months ago
Intelligent Republicans do see this. Then they realize that it's bipartisan, political, dirty trick deja vu all over again.
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Spadecaller1 year, 8 months ago
Bill Reilly should have the editor of NewsMax on his show; they can compare lies.
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bruhaha1 year, 8 months ago
It really shows the intelligence of some of the people who forward and send out these anonymous emails when, as the article states, they just change the names in the smears to some other Democratic politician.
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bruhaha1 year, 8 months ago
Scorched earth politics. Play to the lowest common denominator. What they did to McCain was disgusting.
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ETproductions1 year, 8 months ago
Yesterday it emerged that Rumsfeld was so busy writing disinformation memos from his office in the ramp up to the Iraq invasion that he sometimes sent over 60 a day to various staffers and other Bush agency heads. The memos were so numerous and regular that they came to be called snowflakes, since the fell onto desks with the regularity of a snow storm.
Things like Muslims avoid "physical labor," and the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.
From the Houston Chronicle: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/52...
No wonder the post invasion was so poorly planned. Like I have been insisting, New Repugnicans are so focused on propagandizing to get what they want that they have no intelligence left to plan how to actually do anything. The New Repugnicans are TERRIBLE at defense planning. Elect them and die.
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engineer1 year, 8 months ago
The right has done this continuously. How else can they win!!?
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 8 months ago
I get newsmax. It isn't that good. I don't even read the health stuff. They seem to be mostly worthless ads, not neutral - scientific (just my opinion). Townhall.com is good. I only have time to read about 20% of the articles.It is an opinion - editorial site. NumbersUSA (anti illegal immigration) is also good but they only send info when needed, about every 3 days or so. I don't have time for moveon.org or media matters. I know what they're going to say before they write it.
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Commodore11 year, 8 months ago
Smear machine huh? U mean like the Daily Kos and MoveOn.org? I find it very refreshing to hear about a right wing smear machine instead of the usual left wing ones run by the leftist loony tunes. Gee I wonder what George Soros will say and do if Hillary wins and she wants to redistribute his wealth? Will he give up his money? Highly unlikely!
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ETproductions1 year, 8 months ago
Give me a break! There is NO comparison between any political action committee that is open and transparent about what it says and a hidden e-mail attack machine that cowers in the corner so that nobody can check or challenge its sources or hold it responsible for its mistakes. Equating the two is just another example of the wingnut machine in full swing.
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AnteUp1 year, 8 months ago
crghss ~
Really?
Why did I know about Blackwater before the recent killings
in the square? Jeremy Scahill's article in......The Nation!
How did I know that Time-Warner put together a postal rate
policy for the administration that would maintain or LOWER
the big publication's postal rate and RAISE the rate for
smaller publication's......The Nation!
How about news of the high percentage of vets coming home
with emotional problems and severe re-adjustment problems
with our Veteran's Affairs Department unable to provide
timely assistance - or none at all......The Nation!
Have you heard cable news discuss the FCC hearing that
took place on Halloween to loosen the cross-ownership
restrictions on major media corporations? That they will
be allowed to control TV,radio, daily and weekly newspapers
AND internet access to websites in an area......this
week's Editorial in......The Nation!
Now, if YOU don't want to know about those FACTS?
Then, no - The Nation is not for you.
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 8 months ago
It's sad the right wing engages in smear. Why can't they be like the left who never has done that sort of thing? If only the Repubs could be perfect like the Dems. Smear is defined as any negative attribution to a left wing idea or event. The truth is defined as any negative attribution to a right wing idea or event.
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