Masturgate: The lying never stops

If you've read David Brock's Blinded By the Right, you'll know that the American Spectator has a history of slimeball tactics. As part of a larger effort to confuse the facts of Foleygate, the Spectator quoted an unnamed "DNC operative" about a plot to hold back the Foley emails until just before the vote.

Does this operative actually exist? Scan the words placed into his mouth, and come to your own conclusion.

So how to remedy? "You pull out the bright shiny things that distract the average American voter away from the issues we all know they care about -- national security, anti-terrorism -- and focus on the ugly: Foley and Iraq."

Cah-MON. Nobody talks this way. Republican dunderheads might want Democrats to say such things, but they never would, not even behind the scenes.

This is why conservatives never write decent screenplays (with the exception of John Milius, onlie begettor of the semi-sacred The Wind and the Lion.) Conservatives lack the imagination to write persuasive dialogue. Since they cannot see through the eyes of any perceived enemy, they reduce all of life to cheap, unconvincing melodrama.

CREW has responded to the blatant lies in the Spectator story. The fact is inescapable: As soon as CREW got hold of the emails back in July, they turned them over to the FBI. It was the Bush's FBI, not CREW, which sat on the data.