Elizabeth Warren v. the Right Wing Smear Machine - FDL

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Elizabeth Warren v. the Right Wing Smear Machine
By: David Dayen - FDL
Friday September 23, 2011 12:55 pm

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Elizabeth Warren has had a good launch to her Massachusetts Senate campaign. She generated a lot of energy in the state with her announcement tour, a viral video on class warfare admired by liberals throughout the country, and fabulous early polling, showing her slightly ahead of Scott Brown in a head-to-head matchup and crushing the competition in the Democratic primary. Grassroots fundraising appears to be going well, too, with over 25,000 donors on Act Blue.

So of course, being a threat to entrenched power, she will be subject to smears. There was quite an amusing one on Politico’s Morning Money, claiming that OH NOES SHE’S HITTING UP BANKSTERS FOR MONEY! Except the firm in question is a law firm, and the attorney asking for donations is a bankruptcy lawyer.

Striking out with part II, Politico, clearly the main launderer of these smears, tries this one:

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That highlighted portion is contradicted inside the article, where it is revealed that Warren did report a total of $64,289 in compensation from the Congressional Oversight Panel from 2009 to 2010. Chris Bowers continues: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/23/1019585/-Elizabeth-Warren-becomes-a-target-of-right-wing-media

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Precisely. And Bob Kuttner writes basically the same thing: http://blog.prospect.org/robert_kuttner/2011/09/desperately-seeking-dirt-on-wa.html

This is only going to get worse, so at least she’s being exposed to it now.

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Link: http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/09/23/elizabeth-warren-v-the-right-wing-smear-machine/

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[TacticalPeek]

1. This brings on a strange yearning . . .

https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/27666

[CTyankee]

2. These RW idiots are desperate. They'll be lucky to find an unpaid

parking ticket on her. Maybe they'll dig into her divorce and see what muck they can find. Who knows? So far the stuff they are trying is just embarrassing THEM. And Limbaugh is just embarrassing himself even further than usual. this is totally dumb.

And after the Big Boys on MSNBC (e.g. Mark Halperin) tried their desperate best to "get" her in a trick question and failed miserably right on live TV this week on Morning Joe, it looks like they're gonna have a "get a bigger boat." Doubt if they will succeed.