Andy Martin on Hannity
Roland Martin calls Sean Hannity a "ball of hate"
Roland Martin calls Sean Hannity a "ball of hate"
During this long election season, one of the things that the candidates have had to confront are smear merchants, peddling the most vicious and hateful of innuendos. By any measure, it would appear that Barack Obama has had the worst of it this election season, but John McCain is no stranger to those sorts of attacks, either. Nor is he a stranger to those sorts of attackers, having hired them to work on his campaign. Along the way, the media has had a difficult time confronting these smears and debunking the debunkable. After all, isn"t simply restating the smear just, on one level ... one vastly stupid level ... just confirming the smear? Plus, don"t time-honored press traditions require reporters to treat crackpots who shout drooling epithets from America"s finest bus stations as the equivalent of experts with advanced degrees from leading universities?
Well, Jim Rutenberg has hit upon a novel way of confronting the smear-traffickers: write a story and call them liars! It"s so crazy that it just might work!
Of course, one still mourns how, in life, timing is everything:
Until this month, the man who is widely credited with starting the cyberwhisper campaign that still dogs Mr. Obama was a secondary character in news reports, with deep explorations of his background largely confined to liberal blogs.
But an appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground. The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.
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Well, Jim Rutenberg has hit upon a novel way of confronting the smear-traffickers: write a story and call them liars! It"s so crazy that it just might work!
Of course, one still mourns how, in life, timing is everything:
Until this month, the man who is widely credited with starting the cyberwhisper campaign that still dogs Mr. Obama was a secondary character in news reports, with deep explorations of his background largely confined to liberal blogs.
But an appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground. The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.
LinkHere
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