Das Clintons sind unser Unglueck!

A few days ago, progressive fascists -- no, the term is not too strong, although it may be a tautology -- on Huffington Post scored Sydney Blumenthal for spreading "right-wing" talking points on his email list. The charge is a lie, as documented here by eriposte and Joe Conason -- who has written some rather vile anti-Clinton material himself this campaign season. (Have you finally noticed the stench emanating from your bedmates, Joe?) After quoting Conason, eriposte adds that

...it was the Obama campaign and some prominent Obama supporters, who from day one, have been the biggest, McCarthy-like proponents of guilt-by-association when it comes to Sen. Clinton. In their view, every pathetic or outrageous comment made by anyone who could even remotely be linked to the Clintons was a reflection of the Sen. Clinton's personal views (remember The Clinton Rules and The Obama Rules). They are the ones who made guilt-by-association the reigning standard in this primary (starting with Bill Shaheen). Further, just as they wilfully and happily embraced McCarthyite guilt-by-association as their de-facto political philosophy and weapon against Sen. Clinton, they simultaneously sought to actively decouple Sen. Obama from the unacceptable and outrageous statements made by prominent Obama supporters/surrogates against Sen. Clinton and sometimes demanded no accountability from the Obama campaign for such statements. Then, they professed utterly fake outrage and crocodile tears when their pathetic guilt-by-association "game" was turned against them by the media using Rev. Jeremiah Wright, then falsely smeared Sen. Clinton on the Wright story and outrageously tried to tie the Clintons themselves to Jeremiah Wright. These are the McCarthy-like tactics that Dreier obviously could care less about since they all involve The Precious^TM and some of his prominent and precious supporters.

Second, where was Dreier when the Obama campaign or pro-Obama bloggers did not just pass on but actually endorsed fraudulent posts by right-wing hitmen like Matt Drudge or Robert Novak? Was he outraged that some pro-Obama bloggers propagated and endorsed the latest fabrication?

Turns out the latest fabrication -- the doctored "Kantor says nigger" video -- originated with Drudge. See this D.U. post, by the apporiately nicknamed "unsane":

Shit BREAKING---Drudge has Kantor video up--this thing is blowing up

Hillary has FORFEITED her chances at a nomination with this SHAMEFUL trash. Fucking ATROCIOUS.

How does this sort of propaganda differ from the offerings of Julius Streicher? Answer: It doesn't. And the hell of it is, the quote above is kind compared to many others you can find by Googling the words "Kos" and "Hillary" and "bitch." And yet these people accuse Hillary of negative campaigning!

The disgusting behavior has caught the attention of Vanity Fair writer James Wolcott. Wolcott's piece is undercut by a desire to pretend that both sides are at fault, though he is unable to cite any pro-Hillary blogs displaying the kind of psychopathology on daily display in Cheetoland.

Perhaps no vilifier of Hillary Clinton traipses across the footlights with a bigger satchel of calumnies than Andrew Sullivan, who diagnosed Mrs. Clinton as “the hollowest form of political life,” a “sociopath.” His solo act had and has a symptomatic significance. Published under the aegis of The Atlantic’s stable of notable byliners, Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog is must-reading among the media elite, those sheep. His words extend wider ripples in the ocean of emotion that passes for opinion journalism than did those of his fellow cobblers. In a column for The Times of London entitled “The Clintons, a Horror Film That Never Ends,” Sullivan compared Hillary to Glenn Close’s bunny boiler in Fatal Attraction—“Whoosh! She’s back at your throat!”—and the Clintons as a couple to the fast-running zombies in 28 Days Later. “The Clintons live off psychodrama,” he contended in a classic pot-kettle-black moment.

Moulitsas, Stassinopoulos, Sullivan -- have you noticed something about the creatures who have taken over the Democratic Party? To wit: Where were these people ten years ago -- and what gives them the right to kick lifers like me out of the party?

What chafed Hillary supporters was how many supposed liberal outposts chimed in with this chorus of abuse, from the op-ed pages of The New York Times (where only Paul Krugman seemed to have a kind word as Maureen Dowd kept reminding readers of Monica Lewinsky’s lipstick traces on the Clinton saga, and Gail Collins seemed to be putting on some sort of puppet show) to the studios of Air America (where hosts Randi Rhodes—who was suspended, then resigned, after calling Clinton a “whore” at a public appearance—and Thom Hartmann kept the hostility percolating), to progressive Internet mother ships such as Joshua Micah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo and the Huffington Post, where even a notable progressive such as Barbara Ehrenreich tried to tar Hillary with fascist associations. (The majority of Huffpo’s high-profile contributors were so over the rainbow about Obama that it was as if they had found rapture in the poppy fields and were rolling around on their backs like ladybugs.)

(By the way -- if you want a closer view of the "revamped" Kos, click on the image above. Feel free to reprint it.)