Why We Fight

Oliver Willis follows the path of Paul Sperry's New York Post editorial about information that John Kerry provided to the FAA about security lapses at Logan International through the right wing echo chamber. (Sperry's premise seems to be that FAA inaction means that Kerry is somehow responsible for 9/11.) It's an instructive post, worth your while.

Briefly, Sperry, whose main gig is with the Richard Scaife funded WorldNet Daily, got his piece into the Rupert Murdoch operated Post, and from thence it landed on Rush Limbaugh's desk and in the pages of another Scaife project, FrontPage. Then a gaggle of right wing bloggers took the bait, and voila! A story without substance spread hither and yon.

Tip o' the green derby to Oliver. It's critical that we support the Kerry rapid response team (so rapid that they're getting dubbed a 'pre-sponse' team) in their efforts to brand lies lies, and liars liars, because the bad guys have a pretty well oiled operation.