Washington Post: Bachmann's politics of slime

 Bachmann's accusations are in the squalid tradition of McCarthyism and other shameful chapters of our history in which politicians have slandered their rivals as un-American
 
 o conspiracy theorists like Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., the Obama administration's approach to the Arab world is the product not of considered diplomacy but of wicked "influence operations," traceable to the Muslim Brotherhood and its agents.
Exhibit A among those agents with murky "ties" to the Muslim Brotherhood, Bachmann warns darkly, is Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bachmann's smear of Abedin, a 37-year-old Muslim American born and educated in this country, was contained in a letter last month to the State Department's inspector general's office.
It would be simple to ignore the baseless and paranoid assertions of  Bachmann were she not a member of Congress and an also-ran in the recent race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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