Kinder Promotes "Worst Kind of Smear Journalism"

Yesterday, #PeterTheTweeter promoted a disgusting article in Forbes, attaching his initials to a message from Newt Gingrich about "Dinesh D'Souza's excellent article."

What is this "excellent article" to which Peter Kinder is attaching his reputation? Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review sums it up pretty well.

So it’s come to this: Forbes cover story on “How Obama Thinks” is a gross piece of innuendo—a fact-twisting, error-laden piece of paranoia. This is the worst kind of smear journalism—a singularly disgusting work.

Forbes for some reason gives Dinesh D’Souza the cover and lots of space to froth about the notion popular in the right-wing fever swamps that Obama is an “other”; that he doesn’t think like “an American,” that his actions benefit foreigners rather than Amurricans. It’s too kind to call this innuendo. It’s far too overt for that...

Forbes has shamed itself with this one.

You can read the Forbes article here.  And responses from the Columbia Journalism Review, Salon's David Weigel, the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, The American Conservative's Daniel Larison and many others (The Atlantic's Max Fisher has a great rundown of reactions). 

But you won't read anything about this latest bit of lunacy from our Lieutenant Governor in the Missouri press.