Layton slams massage parlour report as 'smears'

This story is from the CBC News        NDP Leader Jack Layton blasted a Sun TV News media report Friday citing an unnamed source that he was interviewed by police in a suspected Toronto bawdyhouse in 1996, calling it a "smear campaign." "It's...

Republican Flyer Touts: Obama "Not Who You Think He Is."

The Nypost.com reports that flyers are being distributed in Missouri and Virginia, with the approval of the McCain-Palin campaign, attempting to again link Senator Obama with acts of terrorism. The article...

Obama Warns Against McCain 'Smear' Tactics

" Sen. Barack Obama said today that, while his rival John McCain seeks to "distract you with smears" and "Swift Boat-style attacks" in the last weeks of the campaign, he would keep focused on economic issues and...

Republican legislators sue to stop Palin investigation

GOP lawmakers step in to quash Troopergate."Republican legislators sue to stop Palin investigationby Channel 2 News staffTuesday, September 16, 2008 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Five Republican legislators filed suit...

Bush smear king joins McCain to handle Palin; same guy who smeared McCain

Sen. John McCain, as he prepares to take the nomination as the GOP candidate for president has hired the man whose smear tactics helped deny McCain that honor eight years ago.McCain's campaign now has brought on...

The Truth Fights Back!

This is John Kerry and Barrack Obama's response to the swiftboating.Thanks so much for signing up for TruthFightsBack.com. We had a great launch, with tens of thousands joining the team and hundreds of new smear reports to enter into our database.Now we have work to do...

New Yorker Magazine – The Audacity Of Smear :: MAXINE

" The New Yorker said the cover by Barry Blitt called "The Politics of Fear" is meant to satirize "the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign,"...

Ron Paul Race Smear Erased?

"Initial post 5.22.07  Internet information claiming that presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) is a racist – and made derogatory comments about African Americans - has been making the rounds within the blogosphere. But sources close to the editorial group that...

More on The Club for Growth’s smear of Mike Huckabee

"UPDATE: "Emmett", a commenter who has joined the discussion, has rightly pointed out that my original post did not make the proper distinctions between Jackson (Jack) Stephens who passed away in 2005, and his son Jackson (Steve) Stephens, Jr. I have edited the original...

Dems try to Hush Rush

It is known that the democrats would want nothing more then to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine so as to quite conservative opinion after the failure of the leftist Air America. It’s probably not that far off...

Google Slammed in Privacy Study

As Google grows ever larger, it falls under ever-greater scrutiny. The search giant has garnered the "lowest possible" score in a recent study by Privacy International, who is additionally accusing Google of starting a smear campaign against them. Google's ultimate goal seems...

The French Watergate

"On June 16, the former President of France will no longer have his Presidential immunity. He is subject to a number of corruption investigations dating back through 12 years of his Presidency, all the way back to...

The Wolfowitz Files

The anatomy of a World Bank smear. Monday, April 16, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT, Opinion Journal  (Excerpt) "The World Bank released its files in the case of President Paul Wolfowitz's ethics on Friday, and what a revealing download it is. On the evidence in these 109 pages,...

I know I'm missing something important here

But the Guardian's article reads to the uniformed as if adopting a child from the U.S. is more or less equivalent to adopting one of those many sons of Adolf Hitler that reportedly were raised in the backblocks of Paraguay in the 1960s."David Miliband's supporters fear he is...

Pelosi undergoes a short trip through neo-con hell....

While I am not a fan of Rep. Pelosi, the swift boating of her character becuase of her trip to Arabia is political smearing at its worst.  Perhaps Pelosi's trip prevented the anticipated U.S. Strike on Iran...

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