The AP's Nedra Pickler is facing criticism for her story about the fact that Barack Obama "may face grilling on patriotism." And it's true! Some of Barack Obama's political opponents may indeed question his patriotism.
And why shouldn't they? As Ms. Pickler reports, there are the internet hoaxes attacking Obama's patriotism that have been circulating through fever-swampy right-wing email chains for several months now. And, Obama doesn't wear an American flag lapel pin, unlike these upstanding American gentlemen. And, Obama's wife said something that, if you're determined to be willfully obtuse, you could misinterpret as indicating that she is covertly ashamed of her country. QED, what more proof could you need?
What, still not convinced? Okay then doubting Thomas, Pickler's got a real whopper of an expert witness: Roger Stone, professional rat-fucker and unindicted Watergate crook, who's spent his entire adult life organizing cheap and borderline illegal plumbing operations against Democrats. He's obviously got a disinterested take on the election, let's see whether he thinks Obama's patriotism comes up short:
Barack Obama is out of the McGovern wing of the party, and he is part of the blame America first crowd.
There you go, Roger Stone, professional rat-fucker and unindicted Watergate crook, believes Barack Obama isn't a sufficiently loyal American. Who would've guessed? Certainly not Nedra Pickler's readers, who are told only that Stone is "a Republican consultant," which is a bit like calling the Grand Inquisitor a Catholic priest.
Until recently, Stone's last foray into electoral politics was to make a threatening phone call to Elliot Spitzer's 83 year old Parkinson's-afflicted father, promising that the elder Spitzer would "be subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Committee on Investigations on your shady campaign loans," and referred to "your
phony, psycho, piece of shit son."
After a brief respite, Stone is back in the saddle, with a new anti-Hillary Clinton 527 called, charmingly, Citizens United Not Timid, which apparently exists for no other reason than to sell t-shirts with the graphic at the right. Hilariously enough, C.U.N.T. is being forced to divert resources that could have been put to calling Hillary Clinton a C.U.N.T., by legal challenges from an earnest right-wing lunatic outfit, David Bossie's Citizens United, which is perhaps justifiably aggrieved over the trademark infringement.
In the spirit of journalistic integrity with which Pickler wrote her story, and the spirit of fairness and propriety with which Stone conducts himself, here's a link to a (true!) National Enquirer piece on Roger Stone's experiences of wife-swapping, swinging, and the orgy circuit. Sources tell Jewcy that Stone "may face anonymous Googling of 'Roger Stone AND swinger.'"
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