In 2006, Joe Biden, a powerful U.S. senator and future vice president, smeared Indian Americans as mostly working at the convenience store 7-11. At the time, NBC (and the other networks) completely ignored the story. This week, when obscure Republican Congressman Don Young referred to Hispanic migrant workers as "wetbacks," NBC's Today show devoted a full… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Smear
Lapdogs: HuffPo, other media smear Steven Crowder for pointing out Ashley Judd’s rape remarks
@LDoren Looks like @scrowder is the new target for his comments on Ashley Judd. The lefty media loves to ignore truth.— Clifford H Knight(D) (@Knight1510) March 17, 2013 This is an outright lie. “HuffingtonPost: Steven Crowder makes shocking joke about Ashley Judd at #CPAC"— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) March 17, 2013 Truth smuth! Lapdogs in the… Read more »
Fox News Runs With ‘King Obama’ Royal Food-Taster Smear
On Friday, right-wing blogs ate up the Daily Caller “scoop” that President Obama begged off some lobster salad by allegedly telling Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that his food taster was not around. Although The DC‘s report played coyly straight with the story, wingnut blogs pointed to this as evidence that our uppity ol’ POTUS doesn’t… Read more »
Bill O’Reilly Rages At Columnist Who Called Him A Homophobe: ‘You’re A Ridiculous Person,’ ‘Smear Merchant’
Bill O’Reilly has been very vocal pushing for “Jessica’s Law,” a law designed to grant mandatory minimum sentences to child sex offenders. During a recent discussion of why Colorado has not gotten its own version passed, O’Reilly brought up the fact that the state house speaker, Mark Ferrandino, happens to be openly gay. This led… Read more »