AIM's Kincaid on "Clinton's alleged lesbianism": "[A]s explosive as Senator Barack Obama's mysterious upbringing as a Muslim"

In his May 2007 "Cliff's Notes" report, Cliff Kincaid, editor and writer at right-wing media "watchdog" organization Accuracy in Media, wrote: "The sex scandal the media won't touch involves Senator Hillary Clinton's [D-NY] alleged lesbianism." Kincaid later added: "This matter is as explosive as Senator Barack Obama's [D-IL] mysterious upbringing as a Muslim in Indonesia and his quick conversion to Christianity."

As Media Matters for America has repeatedly documented (here, here, here, here, and here), several right-wing media figures have attempted to advance rumors that Clinton is either bisexual or a lesbian. In suggesting that Clinton is a lesbian, Kincaid cited Edward Klein's widely discredited book, The Truth about Hillary (Sentinel, June 2005), and "[c]onservative writer Jack Wheeler [who] flatly asserted in a Washington Times column, based on his sources, that [Clinton] is bisexual."...[Open in new window]
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You know how certain words just seem to go together?

Some due to constant propaganda-like hypnotic repetition: Arab terrorist.

Some others just because they occur to one so often: Republican dirty tricks. Republican smear campaign.

See?
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