The Most Desperate Sleaze Bags of the Week - The Drudge Report Attempt to Discredit Cain Accuser With Lame Obama Administration Link
In continuing to defend Herman Cain, the right-wing media have tried to connect one of Cain's accusers to the Obama administration. The Drudge Report said that the woman in question, Karen Kraushaar, "works in the Obama administration," while The Blaze said she "works for the Obama administration." However, Kraushaar also held positions in the federal government during both the Bush and Clinton administrations.
The Drudge Report:
The Blaze:
According to the story from The Daily that first named her publicly, Kraushaar has served in several government agencies:
Karen Kraushaar currently serves as a communications director at the Inspector General's Office of the Treasury Department, a position she has held since last year.
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After the settlement, Kraushaar served as a spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the predecessor of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She was a chief spokeswoman during one of the agency's most controversial immigration cases -- the custody battle over Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban boy rescued at sea who was then held by Florida relatives against the will of his father in Cuba. The boy was eventually returned to his dad.
In 2003, Kraushaar was a communications specialist for the Tax Advocate Service, an independent arm within the Internal Revenue Service that helps impoverished taxpayers.
In addition, the head of the agency Kraushaar reportedly works for now, the Treasury Department inspector general's office, is a Bush appointee.
In other words the worse one can say about her is that she is a career bureaucrat. Republicans say they are for small government try not to laugh too hard at that long held myth, but they stamped like mad cows when it comes to trying to get appointed to a government job, as many will remember - Bush Makes More Last-Minute Appointments. Drudge continues the right-wing conservative tradition of utter contempt for integrity in reporting.
