Thursday, January 25, 2007

Everytime They Lie, We Need To Refute

I was not going to write a post on this issue, but the rightwing liars keep bringing it up. Everytime they lie, we need to refute their lies. Otherwise, they get away with it like the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth Lies.

Their lies about Kerry's service in Viet Nam helped the worst president in US history win an undeserved second term. That is something we are paying for now and future generations will have to pay for it as well.

Never again.

Never again can we let lies, deceit, and fraud decide an election because we know all too well the consequences. The consequences are in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in our national debt, in our economy, and in our environment.

Now they are spreading lies about Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton, and we need to cut off the lies before they grow any bigger.

CNN Debunks Obama “Madrassa” Smear
Surprise, surprise. Despite the right-wing's irresponsible and baseless rumormongering about Hillary Clinton "exposing" Barack Obama's "covered up" childhood at an Indonesian madrassa (where he was presumably indoctrinated in extremist Muslim teachings), it turns out that none of it is even remotely truthful. After checking out the veracity of the story — you know, a basic tenet of Journalism 101 — CNN blows the lid off of what a spokesman for Senator Clinton called "an obvious right-wing hit job."

The only thing this story "exposes" is the anatomy of a right-wing hit job: Conservative Insight magazine runs an unverified story that the minions at FOX News then cite to smear politicians they don't like. And when it blows up in their faces, they claim they were just citing a source and wipe their hands clean. That's how right-wing "journalism" works.


Go to Crooksandliars.com. Watch or read the CNN story. Educate yourself. The 2008 election may be far into the future, but it is being decided in the present.

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