Drudge, FreeRepublic, MSNBC, Fox and Rush smear innocent woman

Antbody catch this?

Close enough for government work

Shortly after she became the 16th woman to say Arnold Schwarzenegger had groped, fondled or otherwise sexually harried her, Rhonda Miller was gang raped by politics.

Lawyer Gloria Allred tells the story this way. She got a call from Miller, a 53-year-old stunt double who worked on two of Schwarzenegger's films. Miller told Allred that Schwarzenegger had pulled up her shirt and snapped a photo of her breasts and had groped her during the filming of two of his movies. Last Monday, Allred parked Miller before a bank of television cameras. Miller read a statement, refused all questions and fled the room. Then came the payback.

Schwarzenegger's campaign, frantic to deflect the latest sexual harassment allegation on the eve of last week's recall election, issued a memorandum to select California media outlets. Signed by Schwarzenegger spokesman Sean Walsh, the memo read: "It has come to our attention from the media that you can access court documents from the following web site: www.lasuperiorcourt.org/Criminal. You will have to pay a $4.75 online charge to access/search the site. Once you have accessed, the site, type 'Rhonda' in the 'first name' field, and 'Miller' in 'last name' field." In went Miller's name and out came the record: prostitution, narcotics, forgery. John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, two LA radio talkers whose commitment to fair play has extended to hosting a Schwarzenegger rally, read from the Miller "record."

Matt Drudge, the nation's slanderer general, posted a headline: "ARNOLD ACCUSER'S STORY FALLS APART . . . " It linked to a discussion thread on the FreeRepublic.com Web site. There, correspondents described Miller as "the ape woman" and "crack ho." Anonymous correspondents thrilled to the ethical postulate that by smearing his accuser, they were somehow acquitting Arnold.

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http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20031012edroddy102col2p2.asp

Anonymous correspondents thrilled to the ethical postulate that by smearing his accuser, they were somehow acquitting Arnold.

Republican MO ~ Smear Smear and Smear some more and then say that clears their guy.

These tactics are old hat form the Republicans. In "The Clinton Wars" author Sidney Blumenthal describes an incident which occurred when he first joined the White House staff where Matt Drudge accuses him on his website of being a wife beater. Blumenthal did sue. The retraction was a lot smaller than the allegation, however.