So, first the now-infamous photo of Obama wearing tribal garments appeared in a supermarket tabloid called, The National Examiner (Feb 4). Next the photo was seen on the right-wing message board Free Republic where a freeper commented:
"Good Job, it needs to get to Drudge."
Then the photo traveled to right-wing blogs like Sweetness & Light. Next thing you know, the photo arrived at the Drudge Report, replete with screaming headline:
CLINTON STAFFERS CIRCULATE ‘DRESSED’ OBAMA!
Saint Drudge reminded his readers "that politicians commonly dress according to the country they're visiting and provided a handy illustration, including Sen. Clinton, President Bush and former President Bill Clinton."
Drudge says he got the photo in an email from Clinton staffers. So, where exactly is the actual email, Drudge? Did the dog eat it? But who in this lunatic asylum freaking cares about a little thing like evidence? Proof? Innocent until proven guilty? Not the media, not Obamaians, certainly not Obama.
Politico followed the Drudge lead -- without questioning the validity or truth of the accusation -- as did a freaking slew of mainstream media, left-wing and right-wing bloggers!! The rest is history, Obama campaign manger David Plouffe damned the Clinton campaign for smearing Obama with "shameful offensive fear-mongering," and:
"Obama staffers are pushing the "smear" angle hard. . . On comment boards across the blogosphere, Obama supporters are dropping words like "cynical," "disgusting," "despicable," "shameful" and, worst of all, "Rovian." The point, of course, is to suggest that the Clintonistas are slyly pressing for advantage among credulous, bigoted Americans who a) believe (despite reality) that Obama is Muslim, b) consider being Muslim a bad thing and c) would somehow see this innocuous image as "evidence" of Obama's Muslimness. Which, if true, would be pretty damn Rovian."
And this is an attack on Obama??? Are you fucking kidding me?
People have lost their fucking minds. If this sorry nation was a human being, s/he'd be forever locked away in a straight-jacket in a high-security lunatic asylum. That goes quadruple for the pure as the driven snow politics-of-hope we call the Sainted Obama Bandwagon.
There was a time when no sane person on the left would be caught believing anything found on Drudge, let alone a character assassination of one of our own. But this just keeps on happening over and over again. A story sliming the Clintons breaks, I follow the links and they dead-end into a story with not one shred of actual evidence. Meanwhile, the Obamaians shout the character assassinations from the top of their cyber lungs.
What hurts most is that Obama's style is to condemn the Clintons without one shred of evidence. And why not? Portraying the Clintons as rotten-to-the-core racists is working out pretty damn good for Obama.
Karl Rove is laughing his fucking head off.
In my humble opinion, when someone is being character-assassinated, sanity and fairness dictate that we withhold judgment until we see the proof. There is a truckload of honest and fair critiques about both of the flawed candidates. Why are we rushing to damn either one of them as hateful Immoral Evil-Doers?
God, I cannot believe what we have become.
Here are a few soundbites/links to mull over:
"Drudge is a pox on the house of Democrats. It is a rightwing crap site that spews rumors designed to tear democrats down and divide us."
"[I]t's unclear who is circulating the photo, what the photo means, why only Matt Drudge would receive it, why anything would assume that eve "stressed" Clinton staffers would do such a thing, and why, absent any proof that such a photo was circulating, Obama's campaign would formally react."
"Clinton spokesman says campaign knew nothing of Obama photo. Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson says none of the campaign officials have seen the e-mail in question. And he says the campaign would welcome any independent reporting that anyone has done on the matter."
"This is a total win-win for Drudge. Not only does he get to post a photo of Obama dressed like a foreigner (and a Muslim foreigner at that); he gets to attribute the smear to the Clinton people. This, if you'll recall, was the exact same M.O. Insight Magazine used last year to float its B.S. Obama-madrassa story--citing "sources close to [a] background check," which was "conducted by researchers connected to Senator Clinton." .. So, while I don't think Hillary should drop out before Texas and Ohio, her withdrawal would mean that if the GOP wanted to smear Obama, they'd have to do it without hiding behind her."
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