Smear Creator Given Platform to Spread More on FOX

Politico's Michael Calderone reports on lasts Tuesdays debate on FOX where Sean Hannity and and Robert Gibbs battled over Obama's associations to 'radicals.' Gibbs fired back at Hannity for having Andy Martin on the show to slander the Dem on his anti-Obama special, "Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism."

Well after appearing on the show NYT reporter Jim Rutenburg did some digging and his findings about Andy Martin were revealed on the front page of the paper in article entitled "The Man Behind the Whispers":

An examination of legal documents and election filings, along with interviews with his acquaintances, revealed Mr. Martin, 62, to be a man with a history of scintillating if not always factual claims. He has left a trail of animosity — some of it provoked by anti-Jewish comments — among political leaders, lawyers and judges in three states over more than 30 years.

Well as it happens to be, he is also the man who has been one of the leaders in spreading smears and lies about Obama.

Politico ran an update yesterday that Fox's VP Bill Shine spoke to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, and is no longer defending the usage of "journalist" Andy Martin on the Hannity Special:

Shine told Kurtz. "We obviously didn't do enough research on who the guest was.

This is stunning, FOX news is apologizing and admitting they were wrong for having a fear mongering guest on....imagine if they did that more often..they would have no more guests.