Newsmax Concludes Smears on "Fight the Smears" Mostly True

Well golly gee. Newsmax concludes that most of the "smears" on the Obama website "fight the smears" are true. I wonder if that goes for Andy Martin's recent assertion that Barack Obama is really the son of left-wing writer Frank Marshall Davis.

Lowell Ponte of Newsmax writes:

>The Obama campaign says its candidate is a victim of “smears” — and has even created a Web site to fight such attacks.

But a Newsmax investigation finds many of the so-called smears are largely based in truth — and the Obama campaign uses half-truths, clever language, and ad hominem attacks to spin the facts.

Obama’s www.FightTheSmears.com focuses mainly on anti-Obama messages being repeated on the Internet and talk radio, the only media where Obama's ideological allies are not dominant.

These "smears" and the Obama rebuttals are often framed in lawyerly language that leaves much wiggle room in the candidate’s answers.

FightTheSmears.com also makes no attempt at objectivity, describing Obama’s critics as “pushing misleading research and distorted claims” because they are “ideologues” busy “spreading a ‘pack of lies’ about Barack.”

Read the whole thing here.