Ben Smith Confesses To Coverup

Saving Obama.

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith now concedes that Barack Obama sought the socialist New Party's endorsement in 1996--but continues to give Obama, and the New Party, the benefit of the doubt on whether Obama was in fact a member. While admitting the Obama campaign misled the press and the public about the New Party, Smith continues to let the campaign get away without comment--when, in fact, David Axelrod responded yesterday.


Granted, Axelrod's response was to claim that he had "no idea" about the New Party--but that is almost certainly a lie, given that he controls Obama's image tightly, and given that the campaign targeted the New Party allegation as a "smear" in 2008. It is widely known that Axelrod micromanages his candidates' speeches and biographies, and there is almost no chance he has "no idea" about Obama's New Party ties.


To his credit, Smith allows that "if the Obama campaign falsely denied that detail of his liberal past in Chicago, it wouldn't be the only fishy statement they made in 2008 about that period." But he disagrees with Kurtz that Obama's ties to the New Party "would have been the straw to break the camel's back."

But, since Ben Smith took the lead in the 2008 coverup, we'll never know will we.

Lying sack of shit.