Widows and Orphans First... - Eric Alterman

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The beast will not die. In a March 21 profile of Lizz Winstead of Air America Radio, for instance, the Washington Post's conservative media critic, Howard "Conflict of Interest" Kurtz, writes, "Why would people listen to Winstead and company when liberals already populate much of the media?" This nonsense allows conservatives to continue to deploy the phantom charge of a "librul media" to conduct guerrilla operations with a cooperative media against targets on the left.


A textbook example of the dishonest tactics employed by the right-wing smear machine can be found in the recent campaign against September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a 122-member organization of the families of lost loved ones who seek to prevent the exploitation of its legacy for inappropriate (and aggressive) purposes. Group members have participated in antiwar marches and were particularly vocal when the Bush campaign used 9/11 footage in a campaign commercial designed to mask the Administration's lack of preparedness for the attack, its panicky response in the immediate aftermath and its (now obvious) bait-and-switch operation designed to justify its longtime desire to invade Iraq.

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