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Karl Rove denied that there was any political attempt to use the war in the campaign and President Bush made a similar statement. Bush may or may not have known the truth but Rove was lying baldly. Politicizing the war was the basis of his entire campaign strategy and he had presented it earlier to the Republican National Committee. See {35759}. However, the public who may or may not have believed McAulliffe's accusation in the face of Rove's denial, voted to re-elect the President. However, there was another dirty trick that the Republicans used very successfully–the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. So it is hard to tell which was more effective, but the Democrats were totally outclassed in this election. Ironically, Bush's popularity sunk to record lows in this second term with even many in his own party turning on him. The issue that made people most unhappy with Bush was the essence of Rove's original strategy�the ability to handle the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq properly.

Coughlin was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the Fascists. He was one of the American “heroes” in Nazi Germany, receiving assistance from the Nazi government. Between his anti-Semitism and support for Hitler, Fascism and radical socialism, the Vatican ordered him off the air and shut down his political demagoguery.

of allegiance to the U.S. There were a number of “Copperheads” –Southern sympathizers—in the North, especially those areas that were near borders with Southern States. Some patriots proposed requiring everyone to take an oath—a solution that tends often to be suggested in times of war and strife, but really doesn’t do any good. The real traitors just falsely take the other; others who refuse, do so on principle and are rarely dangerous. Few public men had had the courage to call the process of requiring loyalty oaths absurd as Sherman did in the Civil War. In almost every era of war—cold or hot—there are some people who call for requiring more loyalty oaths and relatively few like Sherman who will publicly admit its futility.

Freud, in addition to being a leading communications expert himself and also worked for Ruppert Murdoch's News Corporation, the owners of Fox News which Ailes headed. Freund was also married to Murdoche's daughter, Elizabeth, and thus often spoke for the family. Ailes had incredivle talent in using media--especially television--to pursuade and entertain people. However in the process he trampled over the norms of honest and fair journalism,

Accusing her of being a fellow traveler with Communist sympathies, Nixon called her "the Pink Lady" and said she was "pink right down to her underwear." See {627826} and {619498}. Douglas and her campaign thought the accusations were so absurd that at first they did not even bother to respond. Nixon repeated the them and stayed “on message” and by the time that Douglas, who had opposed communism all her life, was believed to be one or at least a “fellow traveler” by most Californians—and finally she responded with statements like this, but it was way too late to turn public perception around. She awarded Nixon the derogatory nickname “Tricky Dick” which the majority of the public used for him throughout his career--{600036}.

In the beginning of the Cold War, the Communists of the world frequently attacked the United States for its Racial Segregation and Discrimination before the Civil Rights Bill was passed. It was one of the great shames and weaknesses of America as slavery had been earlier. Southern racists then conflated the civil rights issue and Communism. Since all communists seemed opposed to segregation, then it followed, they erroneously reasoned, that all opponents of segregation were communists. See {622175} for another of Helms vicious smears using this twisted logic.

The claims made by some Republicans were so absurd and extreme that the whole Party was tarred. Some even claimed that the legislation required “Death Panels” which would decide on which elderly people would be treated and which should be abandoned to no die with no treatment when there was no such thing even proposed by anyone, much less passed in the legislation.

Even as late as the 1970s most media organizations did not feel any inhibition about having a spokesperson for a political movement or candidate comment about statements that were clearly untrue. The constant political criticism of the media produced this change and no matter how absurd or false a political statement is, most media will have a spokesperson for the lie appear on the program to repeat the lie. Both political parties are thereby encouraged to exaggerate or even lie as they will never by exposed by trusted journalists and can reduce all falsehoods to a “he says, she says.”

Even leading Soviet officials were critical of the Stalin era and Stalin’s brutal, dictatorial methods.

The papacy and the Lombards were in a dispute over control of various land holdings. The Pope assumed that leprosy was wrought by God to evil people and in his view the Lombards were that so they would definitely have leprosy.