No, I'm sure Doug didn't know.
No I didn't know. If she is an anti-Semite, then I'm sorry I posted the article and will view articles from Salon with skepticism in the future. Salon is defending her here:
http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2004/03/15/smear/
"Kwiatkowski's right-wing critics could not challenge her facts, not a single one, so they immediately reached for the tar brush. The Wall Street Journal smeared her as "something of a right-wing crank." Max Boot, a conservative columnist for the Los Angeles Times, trashed her as "flaky." Then Clifford May, a hit man for the Republican National Committee, was given free reign by John Gibson, host of Fox News' "The Big Show," to drag the 20-year Air Force veteran through the mud after Fox turned off her microphone -- one more bold display of the network's commitment to fairness and balance. Once she was silenced, Gibson and May smeared Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski as an "anarchist" with "radical associations" to political weirdoes like Lyndon LaRouche.
The truth -- never an interest of these right-wing hatchet men -- is that the former Air Force intelligence officer comes from a politically conservative family and subscribes to a libertarian philosophy. She once gave an interview to a LaRouche publication -- the full extent of her "association" with this political fringe. By the RNC man's strained logic, the fact that she also spoke to Fox News should make her a Rupert Murdoch acolyte."
I would also say, by the way - could you find a quote from Bush or Cheney saying such things about their opponents? You most certainly could not. Anyone who has the gall to claim that Bush is questioning people's patriotism or running a mean-spirited campaign damn well better be able to explain that.
You most certainly can. Bush's first campaign ad (last fall) said: "people are attacking the president for attacking the terrorists." directly calling into question the patriotism of people that oppose the invasion of Iraq. And how about the new ad that says Kerry "wanted to delay defending America until the United Nations approved." Sounds like questioning his patriotism to me. And now Bush will be targeting Kerry's anti-Viet Nam war record in 1970. I'm thinking that that one's going to backfire as there aren't too many people who were around back then that were pro Viet Nam.
As far as a mean spirited campaign, Bush has hired the likes of Alex Castellanos. Are you familiar with the smear tactics this guy is famous for (hint: bureaucRATS).
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