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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
We’re drowning in crocodile tears
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Over at the conservative Redstate.com, prominent right-wing blogger Erick Erickson claims that the Obama campaign was secretly peddling ugly rumors that Sarah Palin is not the mother of four-month Trig.
What facts does Erickson offer for that allegation, which if true would be quite damning? Why, none whatsoever. Zero. To the contrary, his pathetic “case” is built on exactly the kind of pure speculation and fantasy that he is allegedly trying to condemn when others indulge in it. Go take a look and judge for yourself.
Among his “evidence:” “Barack Obama himself admits he reads Daily Kos.” Noooooo!!!
You’re also seeing claims that the existence of such nasty rumors somehow typifies liberals.
This, from the same people who for years gleefully trafficked in rumors that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian, that she killed Vince Foster, that Bill Clinton raped somebody and had an illegitimate love child with a black woman, that he helped run a cocaine-smuggling ring, that he had an affair with Eleanor Mondale, etc.
And then there was the time in the 2000 GOP primaries when someone in the Republican machine smeared John McCain — that was back in his maverick days — with allegations that his adopted daughter was actually the product of his interracial affair with a woman not his wife. A proud moment, that one.
We also shouldn’t forget the time that a prominent Republican senator cracked a joke — in public, no less — about the Clintons’ only child. “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?” the senator asked. “Because Janet Reno is her father.”
That man was of course John McCain.
So please, spare me the sanctimony.
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