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Rick Sanchez V. Michael Goldfarb: McCain Spokesman Wusses Out On CNN
huffingtonpost.com - 10/30/2008
Rick Sanchez V. Michael Goldfarb: McCain Spokesman Wusses Out On CNN
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Oh, dear. Michael Goldfarb, who's clearly better off blogging about ABBA and criticizing people for playing Dungeons and Dragons, just pooped his pants on national television. The McCain campaign is making a last ditch effort to make SCARY MUSLIM NOISES at Barack Obama, and since Goldfarb ...

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Think Progress:  Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’

WTF Is It Now?!?:  An 'idiot wind'

CNN Rick Sanchez Catches McCain Spokesman Mike Goldfarb Lying (video)
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CNN Rick Sanchez Catches McCain Spokesman Mike Goldfarb Lying (video)
— youtube.com — CNN Rick Sanchez while discussing Rashid Khalidi with McCain Spokesman Mike Goldfarb "SHUTS HIM DOWN" (more) CNN Rick Sanchez Catches McCain Spokesman Mike Goldfarb ...

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In Which Michael Goldfarb Has A Bad Day
eschatonblog.com - 10/30/2008
In Which Michael Goldfarb Has A Bad Day
— eschatonblog.com — Though Sanchez shouldn't have internalized the premise of Khalidi being anti-Semitic. Just because the McCain campaign says something doesn't make it so. (more) In Which Michael Goldfarb Has A Bad Day

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hisvorpal.wordpress.com - 10/31/2008
Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?
— hisvorpal.wordpress.com — NOTE: there is a lot of material on Goldfarb, et al, on this blog, with all the links and references you could want. The easiest way to access the library is run a Google search, using these terms (cut and paste the text in RED): ... (more) Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?

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Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’
Think Progress — This afternoon, CNN’s Rick Sanchez confronted the McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb about its hypocritical criticism of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) links to Rashid Khalidi. After Sanchez noted that McCain, as chairman of the board at the International Republican Institute, had also given Khalidi nearly $500,000, Goldfarb brushed him off, saying that Obama had a “long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric”: GOLDFARB: Look you’re missing the point again Rick. ...

An 'idiot wind'
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... Some days I wish Sen Obama would just sucker-punch this douchewipe right between the eyes.

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Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb?
thedemocraticdaily.com 10/29/2008 — Kristol: Nicht! i. prologue, incest among the NeoCons I’ve told you at length about the Rovian Campaign of McCain’s deputy director of communications, Weekly Standard blog writer and editor Michael Goldfarb (on a ‘leave of absence’). And I’ve told you about ...
Profiles In Douchebaggery
balloon-juice.com 10/31/2008 — Michael Goldfarb, lead McCain Report blogger on loan from the Weekly Standard: Joe Klein is not impressed : Here we have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism—a ...
And Lower...
swampland.blogs.time.com 10/30/2008 — Here we have the McCain campaign's execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism--a favorite pastime, as we've seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I've never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and ...
Pure McCarthyism
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/30/2008 — Michael Goldfarb, McCain spokesman, accuses Barack Obama of hanging around with anti-Semites - plural - on CNN. Asked to name one other anti-Semite other than his allegation about Rashid Khalidi, he can't. He won't. But he leaves it hanging, refusing ...
The association that dare not speak its name
politico.com 10/31/2008 — McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb isn't "lying." But his hands are tied by the candidate. Jeremiah Wright remains off-limits.
Video: Michael Goldfarb On The Tightest Leash
perfunction.typepad.com 10/31/2008 — My God --- for those of you holding out hope that McCain would somehow carpetbomb Obama into oblivion with a re-introduction of Rev. Jeremiah Wright in these final days, forget about it : To have a campaign spokesman painfully twist in the ...
Rick Sanchez V. Michael Goldfarb: McCain Spokesman Wusses Out On CNN — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Oh, dear. Michael Goldfarb, who's clearly better off blogging about ABBA and criticizing people for playing Dungeons and Dragons, just pooped his pants on national television. The McCain campaign is making a last ditch effort to make SCARY MUSLIM NOISES at Barack Obama, and since Goldfarb ...
Matt Lewis: Who Does Number Two Work For? — Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb is taking some heat for telling CNN's Rick Sanchez that "we both know who number two is" when asked to name an anti-Semite that Obama hangs around other than Kahlid Rashidi. Maybe...
Smirky McGoldtard — Firedoglake
From the Phillips Foundation : Tomorrows Wingnuts, Today™ : Michael Goldfarb Part-Time Fellowship Project: “The Upside of Global Warming.” Michael is online editor at The Weekly Standard where he has worked since 2003. He also works as a research associate at the Project for the New ...
Lords of Undiscipline — Hit & Run
This gruesome CNN exchange with John McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb (on loan from The Weekly Standard ), highlights something I've long observed but rarely written about: The McCain campaign's stunning lack of discipline. First, take a look at Goldfarb missing an opportunity to paint Rick ...
FLASH! Michael Goldfarb Found! — The Democratic Daily
(See yesterday’s post,” Gee. Where’s Michael Goldfarb? “) Goldfarb located on Google radar (@ 11:28 AM, 30Oct2008) … McCain, Palin demand L.A. Times release Obama video Los Angeles Times, CA - 18 minutes ago Asked to comment on McCain’s ...
CNN’s Sanchez Shuts Down McCain Spokesman — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
My goodness, those CNN anchors are getting feisty in these final days of the election season! Take Rick Sanchez, here, who doesn’t give McCain aide Michael Goldfarb an inch when it comes to his claims about Obama’s alleged anti-Semite acquaintances. READ THE WHOLE ITEM  ...
Sanchez v. Goldfarb — Matthew Yglesias
Rick Sanchez carves a “B” in Michael Goldfarb’s face: Couldn’t have happened to a more loathesome operative. At the same time, I have no idea why we’re conceding the premise that Rashid Khalidi is motivated by anti-Jewish racism. I suppose their might ...
Update — Talking Points Memo
Shorter McCain Spokesman Michael Goldfarb: Palestinian = "Unsavory".
Nod and Wink — Talking Points Memo
Which supposedly anti-semitic alleged pal of Obama's is McCain flack Michael Goldfarb referring to? Come on, Michael. Can't you just say it? Whisper it? Give us the first letter?
Don't say 'Jeremiah Wright' — Ben Smith's Blog
  McCain aide Michael Goldfarb is clearly not allowed to speak the name of Obama's former minister.
McCain Blogger Michael Goldfarb Caught B.S.ing On Video — Oliver Willis
Tucker Bounds, meet your co-pilot in suck.
Is Even Khalidi An Anti-Semite? — The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Joe Klein takes on the McCarthyite McCain spokesman, Michael Goldfarb .
In Which Michael Goldfarb Has A Bad Day — Eschaton
Though Sanchez shouldn't have internalized the premise of Khalidi being anti-Semitic. Just because the McCain campaign says something doesn't make it so.
Confidential Sources — Neptunus Lex
The mass media has finally found a secret worth keeping : “A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and (Palestinian activist) Rashid Khalidi,” said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. ” ...
Goldfarb, unplugged — Jonathan Martin's Blog
Bad poll numbers are not stopping Team McCain from having some good times. First they send over a copy of the Constitution to Chris Matthews. And now campaign aide Michael Goldfarb enjoys a bit of schadenfreude: "Just after the New York Times ended months of intense speculation ...