Is James Webb an anti-semetic bigot, or is he just very bad at choosing people with artistic talent for his campaign? If you listen to Harris Miller, you would think that Webb was trying out to be the next Senator Byrd. It all started over this flier that was published by the Webb campaign to attack Harris during the Democratic primary.
From what I can tell, Harris is mostly upset over the fact that he does have a mildly crooked nose and that feature was carried over into a cartoon. The part about him stuffing his pockets full of money? How about his employment as a lobbyist for a group (Information Technology Association of America) that has traditionally worked hard to not only export white collar jobs, but import cheap labor? He has "done his part" to ensure that fewer Americans are employed in these industries with good compensation, the benefits of which naturally go back to their corporate employers and the rich. He has no more claim to be "for the little guy" than Bill Gates can claim to be "just plain folks."
So, how is that little propaganda piece inaccurate? He's a heavy-set, hook-nosed middle age man who in real life has stuffed his pockets with corporate money at the expense of the common man, Jew and gentile alike.
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That picture hit a little too close to home because it resembles the man physically and intellectually. Read up on him a little. He's an elitist in the purest sense, and he's running in a state where even many liberals are squeemish about the kind of elitism that he represents. I don't think that he could carry even Northern Virginia.
It seems like the real problem is that the picture looks a lot like Miller.
"Um..."
The above statement would probably be considered slander by Mr. Miller.
He would be correct.
Why do they always have to acts like 4-yr-olds?
Reminds me of my son at the dinner table.
(He's 4) :)
Where's the slander, Roland? I said that the picture looks like him, which while subjective, is considered true by the average major blogger I linked to. Then, I called him an intellectual elitist. He may consider that slander, but I doubt that a man who is such a policy wonk is dumb enough to try to take a small-fry blogger like me to court over a mere opinion that obviously doesn't come even close to the legal standard of slander ;)
I said he was an elitist, not stupid. I too am an elitist, just not in a political sense.
I think it would be libel, not slander, since it's written, rather than verbal. Proving malice might be a problem though. We're still allowed personal opinions regardless of libel/slander laws, at least until the Constitutional right to free speech is finally killed off.
I didn't say YOU slandered him, Mike.
I'm just saying that no matter what comes his way, that's what he'd call it.
I feel sorry for the deluded fellow.
I was trying to say that the statement
"Um..."
is slanderous.
Sorry, if my humor was poorly aimed. ;)
Ok, gotcha.
"Anti-semetic"?