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December 10, 2008

Right Wing Hackery Watch

by AltHippo @ 3:17 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

I was doing my daily truth squad prowl when I saw this at the Conflux:

According to Peter Flaherty, President of an ethics group, the National Legal and Policy Center, Obama cannot distance himself from Blagojevich. Flaherty is a former Attorney General of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, former Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh, and served as Deputy Attorney General in the Carter Administration.

Note the expression President of an ethics group. By this do the PUMAs mean a neutral watchdog group, like Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington? Of course not. This has nothing to do with Obama actually being caught up in the Blogojevich scandal. It’s about making the effort to smear him. Neutrality could get in way of rapid hyperbole.

Here’s the wikipedia entry for NLPC: (wikipedia)

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group that monitors and reports on the ethics of public officials, supporters of liberal causes, and labor unions in the United States. Among the NLPC’s more high-profile targets have been hip hop mogul Sean Combs,[1] Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (while she was first lady), and Senator Lisa Murkowski. The Center files complaints with government agencies, legally challenges what they view as abuse and corruption, and publishes reports. For its efforts, the NPLC has been praised by such media personalities as Rush Limbaugh.[2] The current president is Peter Flaherty. The NLPC is viewed by many as a partisan group, not as a bona fide government watchdog organization.

For even further truth-squading amusement you may want to check out this post at Rumproast. I don’t actually think it’s a coincidence that one of the PUMAs is appropriating Malkin’s work. The Conflux style is based on the same form of right-wing agitprop that Malkin has excelled at: make your readers good and mad, the facts be damned.

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