Patriot Project exposes right wing smears of Jim Webb

[beachmom]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/a-smear-attack-on-james-w_b_30598.html

In the last few days there have been accusations from several sources that Virginia Senator George Allen has a serious race problem. Of course this hit the news when a videotape surfaced showing Allen calling a brown-skinned man “Macaca” and saying to him “Welcome to America” (the man, unlike Allen, was born and raised in Virginia). But more recently there have been accusations of regular use of the “N-word” racial slur as well as a charge by two people that Allen placed a severed deer head in the mailbox of “the nearest black person.”

If you have been reading Patriot Project you know how these kinds of things are handled: Accuse the accuser. A strong attack “provides cover,” deflecting attention from your own problems. And today, the day after new racial charges surfaced against Sen. Allen, we see exactly that. From WUSA TV 9 News Now in Washington, DC, comes: More Racial Accusations in Va. Senate Race,

"A Vietnam vet who interviewed U.S. Senate candidate Jim Webb for a newspaper article in 1983 says the Democrat told him of college pranks he took part in 20 years earlier in which racial epithets were used and guns pointed at African Americans on the streets of Watts.

Dan Cragg, who later worked with Webb at the Pentagon during the Reagan Administration, says Webb's account is missing both from the tape recording and transcript of his interview with the rising star among Vietnam veterans. Cragg says he doesn't remember if he erased that part of the tape or failed to record that part of the interview."



The Patriot Project is working to expose the front groups, their funding, their connections and their tactics. A close friend of John Kerry, Judith Droz Keyes, is President of the organization. I'm heartened that this organization is trying to right the wrongs of 2004 by making sure smears by the Right are exposed for what they are -- blatant lies.

[blm]

1. Great news - Patriot Project is a great organization for vet candidates.

Expose the REAL characters behind the lies.