Paul has an excellent piece up today on the insidious raced-based campaign conservatives are already running against Barack Obama. There seems to be no bottom to the conservative smear barrel. Yesterday, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt gave us a preview of yet another: he's used naughty words before! And they were recorded! He even won a Grammy for it!
The minions are already running with it, and Hewitt got Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.) to concur that it is profoundly upsetting to have a high-ranking political leader who uses bad words on occasion (unfortunately, the audio isn't up online yet). Of course this smear is also racially loaded, attempting to paint Obama as foul-mouthed and uncivilized. And we all know Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Dick Cheney have never used that kind of language.
--Kate Sheppard
