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Limbaugh has made openly racist attacks on Obama, calling him a “halfrican American” and a “half minority” and a “little black man-child.” Limbaugh <a href="click here claimed</a> without any evidence that Obama, who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School as president of the Harvard Law Review, received preferential grading because of his race and "probably didn’t get out of Harvard without affirmative action."
#2. John McCain
I used to respect John McCain, and I never imagined that he would end up near the top of a list of liars. But he’s here for his remarkable transformation during this campaign. For a man who likes to talk about honor, it’s astonishing how little of it he’s had in this campaign. McCain was victimized by right-wing smear artists and robocalls in 2000—and then turned around and hired the very same sleazebags to help run his campaign.
In his ads and his own speeches, McCain has repeatedly lied about Obama and his record.
Truthobama.com
He promised to run an “honorable” campaign and instead gave us one of the most dishonest, smear-filled campaigns in the history of American politics. Deliberately distorting Obama’s views and resorting to the worst guilt-by-association smears imaginable, McCain has forever destroyed his reputation in this campaign.
#1. Andy Martin
Martin deserves hall of fame honors for his long career of lunacy. And nobody has been smearing Obama longer than Martin, or with less attachment to reality. The self-appointed Executive Director of The Stop Obama Coalition, Martin is also founder of The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama and author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask.”
Few can match his devotion to not telling the truth. As I revealed in my <a href="http://obamapolitics.com">book</a>, Martin was the original source for the “madrassa” myth about Obama attending an Islamic school in Indonesia.
Martin is an unending source of smears. This week, he <a href="click here “Andy Martin explores the relationship between Barack Obama and anti-Semites.” (Martin was repeating a fantastic, discredited smear that a guy named al-Mansour had financed Obama’s law school education and arranged to get him admitted.) Certainly, no one can doubt Martin’s expertise on the subject of anti-Semitism, since he has a remarkable record of <a href="click here remarks</a> (such as “crooked, slimy Jew”) toward Jews that he explains away by <a href="click here “I was the innocent victim of both a political kidnapping and a burglary by corrupt federal judges in Chicago.”
Today, Martin writes on his website, “Is there a secret Obama, and an ‘Obama Code,’ author Andy Martin asks.” That’s the kind of inexplicable paranoia about Obama that we’ve all learned to love from Martin.
These supreme smear spreaders may seem scary, but what’s really frightening is the fact that they’re not alone. There are swarms of conservative talk shows and websites where the lies about Obama get repeated with the same indifference to the truth, and even in the mainstream media there is little effort to debunk these lies and many times the smears are actually repeated without the truth being told. My list of 1,117 lies and smears is just the tip of the iceberg, and we all need to get the truth out.
<em>Crossposted at <a href="click here
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#2. John McCain
I used to respect John McCain, and I never imagined that he would end up near the top of a list of liars. But he’s here for his remarkable transformation during this campaign. For a man who likes to talk about honor, it’s astonishing how little of it he’s had in this campaign. McCain was victimized by right-wing smear artists and robocalls in 2000—and then turned around and hired the very same sleazebags to help run his campaign.
In his ads and his own speeches, McCain has repeatedly lied about Obama and his record.
Truthobama.com
He promised to run an “honorable” campaign and instead gave us one of the most dishonest, smear-filled campaigns in the history of American politics. Deliberately distorting Obama’s views and resorting to the worst guilt-by-association smears imaginable, McCain has forever destroyed his reputation in this campaign.
#1. Andy Martin
Martin deserves hall of fame honors for his long career of lunacy. And nobody has been smearing Obama longer than Martin, or with less attachment to reality. The self-appointed Executive Director of The Stop Obama Coalition, Martin is also founder of The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama and author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask.”
Few can match his devotion to not telling the truth. As I revealed in my <a href="http://obamapolitics.com">book</a>, Martin was the original source for the “madrassa” myth about Obama attending an Islamic school in Indonesia.
Martin is an unending source of smears. This week, he <a href="click here “Andy Martin explores the relationship between Barack Obama and anti-Semites.” (Martin was repeating a fantastic, discredited smear that a guy named al-Mansour had financed Obama’s law school education and arranged to get him admitted.) Certainly, no one can doubt Martin’s expertise on the subject of anti-Semitism, since he has a remarkable record of <a href="click here remarks</a> (such as “crooked, slimy Jew”) toward Jews that he explains away by <a href="click here “I was the innocent victim of both a political kidnapping and a burglary by corrupt federal judges in Chicago.”
Today, Martin writes on his website, “Is there a secret Obama, and an ‘Obama Code,’ author Andy Martin asks.” That’s the kind of inexplicable paranoia about Obama that we’ve all learned to love from Martin.
These supreme smear spreaders may seem scary, but what’s really frightening is the fact that they’re not alone. There are swarms of conservative talk shows and websites where the lies about Obama get repeated with the same indifference to the truth, and even in the mainstream media there is little effort to debunk these lies and many times the smears are actually repeated without the truth being told. My list of 1,117 lies and smears is just the tip of the iceberg, and we all need to get the truth out.
<em>Crossposted at <a href="click here
www.obamapolitics.com
John K. Wilson is the author of five books, including "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest" (Paradigm Publishers, 2008), www.obamapolitics.com, and "Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies" (Paradigm Publishers, 2008). He is the (more...)
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