I've been saying it all along. From Eriposte at The Left Coaster.
Desperately Seeking Free Republic
There used to be a time when sites like Daily Kos were the ones debunking this kind of garbage against Democrats - so it is nothing short of disappointing to see Markos himself becoming a proponent of unsubstantiated garbage and badly reducing the credibility of Daily Kos to that of sites like Free Republic. Markos earlier this week:
There was a concerted effort by Clinton's ad people to make Obama look darker, more sinister, and with a wider nose. The evidence is indisputable.. . .
Why read Free Republic and NRO and TNR or watch MSNBC or Fox News...we can get all the "news" that is "fit to . . . blog" in these great "progressive" blogs (like Daily Kos, AmericaBlog and others) now! On the other hand, it is a sad day when FactCheck.org actually debunks the unsubstantiated crap on allegedly "progressive" blogs. Let's start here (bold text is my emphasis):
Some Obama backers cry "racism." We find the accusation to be unsubstantiated. . . .
A March 3 post by an Obama supporter on the liberal blog site Daily Kos framed the question starkly in its headline: "Is the Clinton Campaign Now Engaged in Intentional Race-Baiting?" A March 4 follow-up by another blogger on AMERICAblog.com asked, "Why is Obama's skin blacker than normal in Hillary's new attack ad?." The blogger concluded that the image had been intentionally darkened, going on to charge that Clinton is "using racism to win." Both of these posts have attracted hundreds of comments and have been re-posted on other widely-read Web sites. . . .
(There's a lot more.) (I saw that crap over at AmericaBlog and was not persuaded. These folks appear to be losing touch with reality.)
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