David Corn writes that in the new epilogue of The Promise, Jonathan Alder dubs the vast network of “conservative media outfits, right-wing bloggers, and GOP partisans”, the Obama Hate Machine (OHM). If you are a frequent reader of Delaware Liberal then you have seen example after example after example about the machinations of the OHM. One of the recent idiocies of the OHM is the notion that President Obama wants to give Manhattan back to Native Americans (read the Delaware Liberal post). The other lunacy is the START is the beginning of Obama wanting to disarm America.
As Obama was pushing for Senate ratification of the new START treaty, which will decrease the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia, Rush Limbaugh, who sits on the throne of the OHM, declared that this was part of “Obama’s effort to disarm the United States.” He also proclaimed that with the START treaty Obama and the Democrats had “finally” succeeded “in harming U.S. national security.”
I’ll give the the right-wing some props as they really stepped up their game from the Clinton years. And it will take some doing on part of the Obama Administration to navigate their way through all the bullshit.
The Obama Hate Machine is never slowed by the absurdities it manufactures. It just keeps spewing crap. The accusations don’t have to be proved. The game plan is obvious: Even if he sidesteps the individual charges, Obama will somehow be dirtied by the ceaseless flow of mud. Meanwhile, the OHM professionals will reap profits, as they feed the irrational paranoia of their believe-anything anti-Obama audience.