Is that what we've reduced ourselves here?
Currently, Dengre has a diary criticizing Hillary for taking money for her senatorial campaign from the Tan family who were once hit with a $9m fine by the Clinton administration for their egregious labor abuses in the Mariana Islands. According to Dengre, they have now cleaned up their act (in a manner of speaking) and have invested their fortune in tourism, etc. In 2005 and 2006, the rehabilitated Tan family donated a total of $10k to her senatorial campaign and Dengre is critical of this. Fair enough, but, unfortunately, he goes farther.
During the course of this diary, Dengre proposes how a news story would cover the donations, and the opening sentence is:
Clinton Donations tied to Abramoff, Sweatshops and China
Owners of a Chinese Corporation tied to a $9 million dollar fine for operating sweatshops on a US Territory and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, have donated $10,000 to Hillary Clinton's run for the White House.
And here is my response that earned the TR punking:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/7/30/22910/9939/322#c322
Dengre lies to start off with. (5+ / 9-)
They didn't donate money to Hillary's presidential campaign. They donated it to her senatorial re-election effort. So, that's a flat out lie. Hillary may have moved it to her presidential war chest but that doesn't mean they donated to it.
Here's the lede in the hallucinatory press story dredged up for this article
Owners of a Chinese Corporation tied to a $9 million dollar fine for operating sweatshops on a US Territory and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, have donated $10,000 to Hillary Clinton's run for the White House.
That statement is flat out fucking lie. A lie. No if's, ands or buts about it - that's an intentional statement to confuse the issue.
Dengre may be doing some good work but Dengre also lies. That's a problem.
Now, the Tans did not contribute to her presidential campaign - that's a flat out lie. They contributed to her senatorial campaign - but that isn't what the diary says. And for whatever reason, my pointing out the lie resulted in me being immediately TR'd out of TU status. WTF? Dengre claims that he is concerned that the press will use this against her and is frustrated that no one pays attention to him. He apparently remedies this by proposing news stories with blatantly false ledes. Why put that out there unless you'e s
On DK, it's now more offensive to point out that someone is lying about Hillary Clinton than it is to lie about Hillary Clinton. How is that any different from how Bill O'Reilly or the Republicans at Free Republic act?