I often complain about we progressives posting crap such as "Sarah Palin's son is not hers" or "Hillary is playing the race card because she said LBJ helped MLK move the civil rights movement forward."
Republicans can easily be taken care of by simply telling the truth and nothing but the truth; I believe the saying that truth has a liberal bias.
Having said this, I would like to draw your attention to this Playboy Magazine story by two bloggers that inspired numerous diaries all over the progressive blogosphere (including this jewel in our Daily Kos) to spread the rumor that Rick Santelli was linked to the powerful Koch family in a conspiracy to start a "tea party" movement against the governmental mortgage relief plan.
Santelli's now-famous rant had thus been (we were told) proven to have been orchestrated.
If you clicked on the link and saw nothing it is because Playboy has removed the article, which was described today by the progressive-leaning Columbia Journalism Review as having "overreached to claim Santelli’s rant was a premeditated part of a conservative PR effort tied to the Koch family," and by Megan McArdle of The Atlantic as "potentially libelous."
The Chicago Tea Party website that allegedly had recently "sprung to life" had actually been created in August of last year.
A post by Zachary Roth at TPM was equally deleted by the website owners.
Let's think before we post, so we can look credible.