Much like his father who developed a reputation for mercilessly smearing opponents, Blumenthal is known as a character assassin who accuses prominent conservatives of racism.[...]
[...] In 2010, after years of attending conservative conferences, rallies and demonstrations, Blumenthal met with strong resistance to his smear tactics. Early in the year, he alleged that James O’Keefe, the young reporter who had exposed ACORN with incriminating videotape, was a racist. Then, at the 2010 CPAC conference, Andrew Breitbart and Larry O’Connor confronted Blumenthal about trying to destroy a young man’s reputation with unfounded claims.
In May 2010, Blumenthal continued to target conservatives as racists in the IFC documentary “Fear.” Billed as “an expose of the behind-the-scenes fear and hate-mongering carried out by the GOP and Fox News for political purposes,” the film alleges that the Tea Party movement was not a spontaneous grassroots phenomenon, but a conspiracy by conservatives to provoke “a fearful rebellion, hoping it might topple a President and swing the 2010 midterm elections.”
Even more disturbing than Blumenthal‘s background is that the conspiracy rhetoric doesn’t merely appear on his own blog but is being promoted across the leftist media including CBS News, Mother Jones, The Nation, Huffington Post, Common Dreams, Tom Dispatch, Democratic Underground, and anywhere else that spastic leftists love to rejoice in ludicrous fantasies about an “Islamophobic crusade” conspiracy. If we needed any further proof that reason is dead in the leftist media, it’s certainly clear now.
Read more about Max Blumenthal at Discover the Networks if you have the stomach for it.
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