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FOX Attacks Obama

Posted by ZP Heller, Brave New Films at 1:29 PM on May 7, 2008.


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Watch as FOX's Steve Doocy throws a conniption fit in an attempt to link Obama with Bill Ayers. While it's kind of amusing that FOX can't drop the all-important crawl to get a glimpse of Ayers standing on an American flag, this smear is downright disgraceful.

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ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.


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I warned you, folks.
Posted by: JimmyVaughan on May 7, 2008 4:12 PM   
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"William Ayers, in the age of terrorism, will be Barack Obama's Willie Horton."

--Former counterterrorism official, Larry C. Johnson, The Huffington Post, Feb. 16, 2008.

Obama is wide open to smear attacks from the right wing of the Republican party.

Don't think for one second that the right wingers possess one shred of decency. They will do anything to win the next presidential election.

And don't think for one second that the smear campaign will fail. Smear campaigns work--period. All you need to do is examine the smear campaigns the right initiated against Michael Dukakis, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and John Kerry for proof of my assertion.

Not only will the right smear Obama for his association with William Ayers, they will also attack him for association with Tony Rezko and Nadhmi Auchi.

Obama, like others who have fallen to the right wing smear machine, will not survive this barrage of character assassination.

My advise is that you prepare yourselves for the John McCain presidency and all the lunacy and pain that nightmare will bring upon us all.

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» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: Fishbone Soldier
» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: Lauren
» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: JimmyVaughan
» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: Fishbone Soldier
» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: Fishbone Soldier
» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: JimmyVaughan
» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: JimmyVaughan
» RE: I warned you, folks. Posted by: Lauren
Flaggy
Posted by: Fishbone Soldier on May 7, 2008 5:24 PM   
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The funny thing is that Fox News has been desecrating the flag every day for the last decade!

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» RE: Flaggy Posted by: Lauren
Let's fight Fire with Fire since Facts don't seem to work
Posted by: JSquercia on May 7, 2008 6:19 PM   
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Let's launch our own Smear camapign patterned after the Right's successful smearing John McCain in 2000 .
Sadly it appears that no one cares about issues such as McCain's flip flops on Bush's Tax Cuts or even voting against the Immigration Bill he proposed and his OKing of Torture by the CIA .
There is of course his Health Plan which would effectively END employer Provided Health Insurance and give a $5,000 Credit to purchase Private Insurance . Since most Family plans cost much more than $5,000 , more like $12,000 , you would be a loser . The price breaks that your employer was able to get will of course be unavailable to the INDIVIDUAL Consumer and then there is that pesky point that Elizabeth Edwards brought up many people will not be able to purchase policies due to "preexisting conditions "Maybe a little version of Harry and Louise should be used in which Harry discovers that the $5,000 isn't suuficient for HIS coverage and learns that NO ONE will insure Louise who is a diabetic

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