{"id":2347,"date":"2010-07-23T04:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2010-07-23T04:18:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:18:42","slug":"rachel-maddow-dealing-with-right-ring-smears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/23\/rachel-maddow-dealing-with-right-ring-smears\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Maddow: Dealing with Right Ring Smears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel discusses how the Obama administration should deal with right wing smears, and journalist, Jonathan Alter, disagrees.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Rachel\u2019s most important line in this was \u201cBe proactive, and fight back!<\/strong>\u201d  I agree.  I would suggest that he could best accomplish this by bringing back some of the progressive advisors, who helped him win the election.  He was mistaken not to have kept them, instead of the more establishment advisors that he did choose.  The latter have served him poorly on several fronts, including this one.<\/font><\/p>\n

I disagree with Jonathan Alter.  He argued that fighting back is not worth consuming three or four news cycles.  It has consumed three or four news cycles anyway.  The difference is that, if he had fought back, he would have come out of this smelling like a rose, instead of just smelling.  Alter also suggests that fighting back might alienate people in Congress.  He must be referring to Republicans.  Alienating Republicans is like encouraging nuns to be Catholic.  They could not be more alienated than they already are.  Alter is giving the same advise as those advisors who are failing him.  He is wrong!<\/font><\/p>\n

I was pleased to learn that Obama and Vilsack did apologize to Shirley Sherrod, who is considering a new job offer.<\/font><\/p>\n

I\u2019m probably done covering this, unless further developments prove newsworthy, like Obama tearing Breitbart, Beck and the GOP Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>, a new one. {{{PLEASE!!}}}<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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