"Smear Machine"

The Huffington Post has an illuminating piece from Frank Schaeffer, who with his father, far-right "Christian" leader Francis Schaeffer, helped broker the marriage between the talibangelist community and the Rethug Party in the 1970s. Schaeffer has a unique perspective on the controversy surrounding some of the notorious pronouncements of Barack Obama's pastor, and how the far right and Clinton campaign are working the same "smear machine" to discredit Obama by any means necessary. (Exhibit A, for Ass: Here's an analysis of this morning's Wee Willie Kristol NYT poop pile (h/t to Marc Ambinder, via LG&M)).