The Obama campaign has launched a new website called Fight The Smears, where supporters can research and distribute responses or alert the campaign to lies and distortions spread by right wing blogs, viral emails and the media.

Predictably, there are various websites now attempting to spin Wes Clark's recent remarks to Arianna Huffington as evidence of anti-Semitism. However, in my unscientific survey of some of those sites, I find encouraging evidence that most of those commenting on such spin are apparently far too intelligent to fall for such nonsense. So far, I think few but the usual anti-Clark propagandists suggest that they are buying it.

However, Wes has run up against negative propaganda before; and he is well aware that it needs to be answered swiftly (no pun intended). So, he has written a letter to the Jewish Daily Forward which is posted at: