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Fox News- Wash. Times witch hunt takes aim at new target: judicial nominee Edward Chen
Fox News and The Washington Times have used a series of comments reportedly made by Edward Chen -- one of President Obama's judicial nominees -- to smear him as a "radical leftist" who "doesn't appear to love America," and as a "biased radical" when, in fact, the quotes in question establish ...
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Fox News- Wash. Times witch hunt takes aim at new target: judicial nominee Edward Chen
The Hollywood Liberal — Fox News- Wash. Times witch hunt takes aim at new target: judicial nominee Edward Chen Fox News and The Washington Times have used a series of comments reportedly made by Edward Chen — one of President Obama’s judicial nominees — to smear him as a “radical leftist” who “doesn’t appear to love America,” and as a “biased radical” when, in fact, the quotes in question establish nothing of the sort. These attacks on Chen follow months of a Fox News-led witch hunt against other Obama advisers and appointees, as well as race-baiting attacks on then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Fox News, Wash. Times smear Chen as “radical” ...

Why Do Conservative Hypocrites Hate Asian-Americans?
DownWithTyranny! — ... Media Matters pointed out that the Republican smear machine has cranked up to slime him. Fox and the Moonie Times, as usual, are leading the way. The Moonies claim he ...

Mounting Challenges to Judicial Nominations
ACS Blog — ... . Similarly, comments by Magistrate Judge Chen are being used by Fox News and The Washington Times -- conservative media outlets -- "to smear him as a 'radical leftist' who 'doesn't appear to love America,' and as a 'biased radical' when, in fact, the quotes in question establish nothing of the sort," reports Media Matters for America . "These attacks on Chen follow months of a Fox News-led witch hunt against other Obama advisers and appointees, as well as race-baiting attacks on then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor." Chen's nomination was also assessed by the ...

Washington Times adds judicial nominee David Hamilton to its witch hunt on Obama nominees
The Hollywood Liberal — ... in the future, so let me take a moment to explain why Inhofe doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” After pointing to Hamilton’s post-judgment motion, Millhiser wrote that “[c]onservatives know that they cannot win the case against Hamilton on the merits, so they make up stories about how Judge Hamilton is a secret Muslim.” Times , Fox News previously smeared judicial appointee Chen as a “radical” Fox News, Wash. Times smear Chen as “radical.” Fox News and The Washington Times also used a series of comments reportedly made by Edward Chen — one of Obama’s judicial ...

Beck, Breitbart witch hunt targets White House official Buffy Wicks
The Hollywood Liberal — ... Right-wing media have repeatedly attacked the targets of their witch hunts with false and baseless charges. In addition to the baseless claims that Wicks is preventing prosecutions of people involved in the alleged assault in Missouri and that the NEA conference call contains evidence of illegality, right-wing media advanced other falsehoods, including: Right-wing media figures have also made baseless charges against Obama judicial nominees David Hamilton and Edward Chen and have smeared White House communications director Anita Dunn for stating ...

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