Somehow, I published my dairy and the only person who could see it was me (because I put a "tips flames" up which showed up in my comment.) So here it is, sort of; anyway, this was my question:
Earlier today, I found a particularly evil piece of paranoid propaganda in a magazine editorial. My first reaction was to write about it here and say something to the effect that the campaign needs to deal with this. The editorial implied it did lots of research and found secret facts. Then I got paranoid. I thought that my bringing it up here could give it legs and some troll would pick it up and try to run with it.
I considered posting it on Obama's site so that "fight the smears" could deal with it but I honestly think they have more trolls than we do.
So, this is my question: if you see a piece of particularly insidious, evil crap that needs to be fought earlier rather than later, what is the policy?
I am not putting a link to this thing because I specifically don't want to give it legs. I want to hear what people think is the best way to deal with this junk. If the majority thinks I should link to it, so it can be dealt with, I will.
Sorry for the short diary.
I realize this sounds cagy, but I am scared that if I addressed the problem more directly I would be accused of promoting the piece and being a troll.
Also, if people tell me to handle this differently I will - or I'll delete this entirely and drop the subject.
Any thoughts on how to handle this or something like this in the future would be appreciated.
This is what I wrote earlier. It is not earth shattering, but I would still like to know what to do.
UPDATE
as suggested in the comments,
here is the piece
This was the first particularly evil tidbit:
The seeds of his far-left ideology were planted in his formative years as a teenager in Hawaii — and they were far more radical than any biography or profile in the media has portrayed.
A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, "Dreams From My Father," reveals that his childhood mentor up to age 18 — a man he cryptically refers to as "Frank" — was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his "subversive," "un-American activities."
This is the next section:
His boss there was Gerald Kellman, whose identity Obama also tries to hide in his book. Turns out Kellman's a disciple of the late Saul "The Red" Alinsky, a hard-boiled Chicago socialist who wrote the "Rules for Radicals" and agitated for social revolution in America.
You get the idea..
The magazine is "Investor's business daily" which does have some readership.
I will put the link on the Obama's site if that is the prevailing wisdom.