Blogpac is fighting against a smear against progressive blogs and John Edwards from the right-wing and front-groups like the antisemitic Catholic League. Over the past two days, Blogpac's campaign has successfully pushed back in the media. More than 2000 emails have gone to reporters to correct errors in their stories. The effect has been substantial, as Glenn Greenwald notes.
A story invented and driven by the right-wing blogosphere resulted in a prominent discussion in The New York Times of the serious ethical lapses and extremist views of John McCain's personal blogger, and even the presence of anti-Semitic slurs against Henry Waxman by that blogger's readers in the right-wing blogosphere. McCain's own blogger was thus forced defensively to contradict the central premise of the right-wing scandal: "I would caution against holding candidates responsible for what their bloggers and blog consultants have said in the past."
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