Posted 3:02 PM by Scoobie Davis

Attack On Daschle Update
Yesterday, I wrote about Rush Limbaugh's grievously unfair attack on Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle for his measured criticism of George W. Bush's use of the term "axis of evil" to describe Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Limbaugh had responded to Daschle's criticism with the McCarthyite accusation that Daschle was "aligning himself" with these three regimes. This is just the latest in a string of coordinated attacks by the right against Daschle. Limbaugh-clone Sean Hannity has echoed the charges made by Limbaugh against Daschle; Today, the media watchdog, the Daily Howler analyzed in detail the way in which Hannity distorted Daschle's statements and motives.