New Obama Smears: Clooney and Plane

Here's one about Clooney advising Obama on foreign policy. People call Obama supporters gullible. I like George Clooney but even I know better than to think he's an expert on foreign policy. Anyone who'd think this is plainly ignorant.

Politico: Anyone looking for a good reason why the mainstream media took so long to get onboard with the tabloid-sourced news about John Edwards’ affair need only look to a story that ran this week about Barack Obama and actor George Clooney.

According to the story that ran Tuesday in the Daily Mail, a notorious British tabloid, Obama has exchanged e-mails, phone calls and text messages with Clooney, who was supposedly advising the candidate on everything from body language to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Obama-Clooney story was concocted from anonymous sources. Yet it spread throughout the world within hours. It was quickly picked up by The Drudge Report and television networks ranging from Fox News to NBC. The overall result served to bolster Republican candidate John McCain’s dubious contention that his rival Obama is a vapid “celebrity” rather than presidential material.

Clooney responded to the article with humor: “"I have never texted or e-mailed Sen. Obama,” he said in a statement. “And I'll offer a million dollars to anyone who could prove otherwise.

Here's another smear that's been going around about Obama's plane -- that Obama removed the flag from the tail. He removed it from the tail but there is a flag on the side. McCain's plane has no flag on the tail either. Can these folks get any more desperate? 

The people who believe these kinds of things are the people who are buying the anti-Obama book, just looking for something to hold on to, something that will validate their hate. 

Here's a factcheck and some photos. John McCain's plane doesn't look any more patriotic to me.