Operation Chaos Redux: Conservative Blogger Hatches Plan To Pad Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) Numbers
Call it Operation Chaos, the sequel. It's the battle for the Keystone State and Rep. Joe Sestak has made up huge ground to catch up with Sen. Arlen Specter with days to go before Tuesday's primary. Some Republicans who sneered at Specter and called him a RINO when he was on their side now think he'd be the easier Democrat to beat come November.Where is Republican honor? If it can be found at all the gutter would be the first place to look.
It's a bit early to game out the general election since Republican candidate Pat Toomey is holding strong, but one conservative blogger is urging GOPers to get involved -- in the Democratic primary -- just in case. Sound familiar? Back during the battle royale between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, radio host Rush Limbaugh asked the GOP to vote for Clinton in state primaries to prolong the fight and (the idea was) to wound the eventual nominee before the general election.
Harvard Law military recruitment not diminished by Kagan's tenure
The New York Post, Glenn Reynolds, Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol, Gateway Pundit, and Erick Erickson lies so often their lapses in integrity could fill an encyclopedia. We all tell a fib once in a while but a political movement that is based primarily on lies is a danger to an enlightened modern democracy.
Right-wing media figures have perpetuated the falsehood that Elena Kagan banned military recruiters from Harvard Law School during her tenure as dean. Not only did students have access to military recruiters throughout Kagan's tenure, Media Matters for America has learned that military recruitment did not drop as a result of Kagan's actions.
Right-wing media push false claim that Kagan "kick[ed] military recruiters" off campus
As Media Matters has noted, right-wing media figures have stubbornly latched on to the falsehood that Kagan "banned military recruiters" from campus while she was dean of Harvard Law School. Examples include the New York Post, Glenn Reynolds, Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol, Gateway Pundit, and Erick Erickson.
