In Jonathan Weisman's page one, well-disguised hit piece on Barack Obama in today's Washington Post (GOP Doubts, Fears 'Post-Partisan' Obama), Weisman makes numerous references to Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.
Writes Weisman: " ... In contrast, the American Conservative Union ranked (Obama) at 8 percent, the same figure awarded to Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), two unapologetic liberals. (italics mine)"
Why the suggestion that Feingold (and Boxer) have something for which they need be apologetic?
Was it Feingold's vote against the Iraq War? The discredited Patriot Act? The Bush tax cuts for the super-rich? Feingold's authorship of ethics reform? Feingold's fight for the Fourth Amendment?
Of the eight Republican rightwingers quoted in the piece, none of the names are accompanied by "unapologetic" adjectives, though an objective observer would conclude that in domestic and foreign policy, rightwing politics have been disastrous to the United States and the world.
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