Hillary Supporters' Use of Questionable Sources on MyDD
by gobacktotexas, Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 07:58:12 AM EST
Is it that hard to come up with good arguments in support of Hillary Clinton?
If you are going to make an argument here, you have to back it up with a credible source. If you back it up with a crappy source, or worse, it leads one to conclude you've got nothing to support your argument.
Here's one Hillary supporter diary, which uses the Drudge Report as the basis of its information. As a progressive, and someone who believes in real journalism, I think that it is very poor form to ever cite Drudge as source. Drudge is well known to be a right-wing smear site, which often gets the "scoops" plain wrong (John Edwards Love Child, anyone?), and who biggest journalistic "credit" was over 10 years ago when it "enlightened" the American people about Monica Lewinsky.
But it gets worse. Today I went to a smear diary which suggested that Obama's relatives should play some role in our consideration of his suitability for the presidency (and teaches us that being proud of your family members who happen to be Muslim is a big presidential no-no). One of the particpants in that discussion, to raise an "under-scrutinized" part of Obama's family history, linked a far right wing blog which refers to Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama", and refers to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as Marxist Michael King.
Later, the same commenter linked to a diary by Linda Chavez!!?? on Townhall.com!!???! to support their point. Linda Chavez was Bush's choice for secretary of Labor who couldn't make it through the Senate confirmation process, which is actually a very good thing because her latest book is titledBetrayal : How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics. But to these Hillary supporters, she is apparently a perfectly credible source to use for a new Obama smear.
I never imagined that I would, on MyDD.com, have to explain why Drudge, or TownHall.com, or Linda Chavez are not credible sources, or that linking to a site which refers to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as Marxist Michael King on Martin Luther King day might not be the best thing to do. But that is where we are.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, hillarybots, racist, sources, townhall (all tags)









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