Thursday, June 12, 2008

Blowhard News Report for Thursday.


Willie Horton Ad Creator Crawls From The Slime To Smear Obama
Wired:
Community organizing and peer-to-peer communications have worked out well so far in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. So well, in fact, that one group of conservative activists is co-opting one of the Obama campaign’s online communications strategies to use it against him.

This new effort is a viral e-mail campaign that aims to frame Obama as a disastrous-for-the-country left-of-left liberal. It is on view at a website called ExposeObama.com.

A group of long-time Republican operatives run the effort, the most high-profile of whom is Floyd Brown, a communications and organizational consultant who created the infamous “Willie Horton” television advertisement that sank Democrat Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign. Read on…

Washington Times’ Tony Blankley: Obama might be a ‘dictator.’
In the Washington Times today, former Newt Gingrich aide Tony Blankley tries to cast Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as a potential “
dictator” in waiting. Claiming that Obama made a “shockingly dictatorial assertion” last month when he said Americans can’t expect to be considered world leaders while still driving SUVs and eating “as much as we want,” Blankley asks if he is a “dictator or democrat?“:
Dictator or democrat? Radical or liberal? Who in the world is this man? Where in the world is the responsible media? What’s going on?

Fox News calls Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama"

An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the network described the former as "Obama's baby mama."

I checked, and sure enough, as you can see below, our e-mailer was right. In fact, that description was displayed on screen several times during the segment, which featured anchor Megyn Kelly and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, an FNC contributor.

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