RIGHTWING SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLINTON AND OBAMA PREDICTED BY BLOGGER [+] serious ballot by cranky ACTIVE Mon Jan 22, 07 - Sat Oct 17, 09 On the January 19 editions of their radio programs, conservative talk show hosts Melanie Morgan, Lee Rodgers and Rush Limbaugh, as well as Fox News' John Gibson on the same day's edition of The Big Story, forwarded the accusation, originally published on the website InsightMag.com, that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) was responsible for spreading information about Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) -- specifically, that Obama "spent at least four years in a so-called Madrassa or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia." The article, bearing the headline "Hillary's team has questions about Obama's Muslim background," asserted that "researchers connected to Senator Clinton" disclosed the "details of Mr. Obama's Muslim past." Despite acknowledging near the end of his show that it "oesn't seem" that "Hillary's fingerprints on the story," Gibson said earlier in that program that "he New York senator has reportedly outed Obama's madrassa past." None of the four radio or television hosts cited any evidence that Clinton was responsible for promoting the madrassa story, beyond the InsightMag.com article, which cited no one by name. On December 13, Jason Zengerle, editor of The Plank, the weblog of The New Republic, predicted that Republicans would "launch a savage and despicable whispering campaign against the guy (Barack Hussein Obama, etc.) and then blame it all on Hillary." Zengerle responded to the InsightMag.com article on January 18: The attribution on all this is broad enough ("political opponents within the Democratic Party"; "researchers connected to Senator Clinton") that I suppose this information about Obama could have originated with people in Clinton's orbit. But let's not forget where this information appeared. And let's be on the lookout for who goes on the cable shows and wonders whether "Barack Hussein Obama" is "The Manchurian Madrassa Candidate." Something tells me it isn't going to be Hillary, or any liberal for that matter. (Media Matters) * * * * * * * * Does it surprise you that a political blogger made a prediction that a specific type of smear campaign would be undertaken by the right against both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and that five days later the exact type of smear campaign that the blogger predicted actually began in the rightwing media? Yes, I'm shocked No, that sort of thing is predictably rightwing Every political party runs smear campaigns, this is nothing new Ballot #111427 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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