Strandedwind at Daily Kos writes
As the situation becomes more clear the need for accountability becomes equally clear.
Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.
This is another ACORN, another Shirley Sherrod, another NPR ‘sting’. They pick a target, they lie and deceive until they have something a credulous corporate media will swallow, and then another career is ruined or another community resource is destroyed.
On Not getting Distracted by Breitbarts latest smear
Those of you on twitter this weekend can't help but have been drawn into Andrew Breitbart's latest smear festival. The details are sordid and involved, as is usual with anything Breitbart touches.
Given that his latest victim is Rep. Anthony Weiner, it's important to remember what of Weiner's activities might be drawing the right wing fake video impresario's ire. Weiner discussed one of his current concerns with Rachel Maddow last Friday night.
Weiner is pushing hard for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself on any decisions involving The Healthcare Reform Act.
From the link:
Clarence Thomas’ wife earned $700,000 from half the radical right-wing ideologues in Washington. Opposing health care reform was her specialty. For 13 years, Thomas didn’t disclose a penny of that income.
He’s trying to conceal a blatant conflict of interest. His family is getting rich off an issue that’s very likely to come before the Supreme Court.
I don't expect Breitbart is getting paid for this directly. Smearing Weiner is an end in itself, and I doubt it was specifically in order to distract attention from Weiner's efforts to shame Thomas into recusing himself. Weiner is an unapologetic liberal, which draws the hate of Breitbart and his drinking buddies no matter what issues Weiner promotes.
You won't hear this is the LameStream Media
Today we find that Andrew Breitbart’s source for the smear attack against Rep. Anthony Weiner, Dan Wolfe (aka @patriotusa76) has deleted his entire Twitter account. There’s been a bad smell about this story from the beginning, and it just got exponentially worse.
What Rude Pundit said
Send all your idiot minions to make a story where none exists, create another distraction because that's f*cking journalism. It has to be because it says so right there on your title, no? Because the only corrective to the mythical liberal media is to just manufacture scandals that discredit those who would give a sh#t about the poor and disenfranchised, like Shirley Sherrod, like ACORN, like Planned Parenthood, like teachers on a break from school, for f*ck's sake. Aid and comfort, Andrew, aid and comfort. But, hey, you play the slavering mainstream media like a whore bragging about his awesome oral skills.
Let's recap the don't look over there story
Justice Thomas knowingly and willingly falsified information on a federal form
-- This matter happened consistently over the course of five years
-- Failed to recuse himself when the supreme court oversaw cases he and his wife had clear conflict of interests
-- Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly states that a Supreme Court Justice that “lacks good behavior” can be impeached
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-- perjury
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-- Federal ethics rules are very specific regarding conflicts of interest and potentials for influence
I repeat, anyone who is a Voice for the Voiceless, or an unapologetic liberal, or who speaks for the the left out are Fair Game.
For those who say John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Anthony Wiener and Richard Showers have only themselves to blame for their high tech lynching I say Mission Accomplished.
Republicans firmly believe that voting is a privilege, not a right.
And the only people who should qualify to vote are:
White - preferably male.
Over 40.
A FOX viewer.
A Rush listener.
Overall - Low information voters.
And that's how we get low information state politicians, and Congressmen and Senators.
So, now you know.
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