Ted Belman and the anti-Obama Smear Machine
Right-wing pro-Israel blogger Ted Belman has recently embarrassed himself by joining the stampede of conservative Republicans so desperate to keep Senator Barack Obama out of the White House that they’ll say just about anything to scare people out of voting for him.
Make no mistake, Belman and his ilk are scared. The smear tactics which worked so well against John Kerry in 2004 just don’t seem to be working on Obama. So, what’s an ideologue to do? The answer, apparently, is to take a gaggle of absurd accusations against Obama, combine them into a hastily written hodgepodge of rumor and innuendo, and throw them out into the blogosphere in the hope that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Here’s what the smear-mongers want you to believe:
September 7th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
[…] just not as right-wing as right-wing American Jews would like him to be. As we wrote in “Ted Belman and the anti-Obama Smear Machine“, one of the favorite tricks of the American Jewish right wing is to brand as […]