Desperation meets dirty politics. Only this hit piece, by coincidence published in the middle of October, blew up in the slime merchants' faces.

"For about 37 minutes on Wednesday night, many in the press and virtually every Democrat were certain that Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner’s Senate campaign was doomed.

On the sports-themed Gawker affiliated website Deadspin, an ostensibly thorough investigation seemed to have revealed that Gardner lied about his high school football career. In fact, it appeared that, according to this bit of investigatory journalism, Gardner never played high school football at all.

“Everybody around Yuma (pop. 3,524) knows everybody around Yuma,” Deadspin’s Dave McKenna, a former Washington Post sports reporter, wrote. He noted that 77-year-old Chuck Pfalmer, one of Gardner’s former High School teachers, would know if Gardner played for the school’s football team. Pfalmer insisted that Gardner never took the field in a Yuma uniform.

“Gardner, who graduated in 1993, never played in any of the Yuma games Pfalmer saw under the Friday night lights,” McKenna wrote. “Not at ‘fullback’ or ‘middle linebacker’ or anywhere else.”

What follows is a number of tweets by the usual suspects excoriating the liar Gardner, and, as one asshat put it, "@deadspin might have just saved the Senate for Democrats".

Only one small problem: it was all a lie. Gardner posted a picture of himself in uniform, but even more,

It would not be long, though, before Deadspin would have to issue clearer “update.” The Denver Post soon got ahold of the septuagenarian former high school teacher who served as Deadspin’s single most important source, Chuck Pfalmer. It turns out, the former teacher believed he was misquoted by McKenna.

“He was not a starter, but he played in those years,” Pfalmer told The Denver Post. “That’s a low blow about (Gardner).”

“I’ll tell you this: I’m proud to know him,” he continued. “He’s a very intelligent man. I don’t have nothing against him. He’s one of my best students.”

Oh, dear. Poor Deadspin, poor Dave McKenna, poor Leftist smear machines, caught with their panties down. Obviously they shouldn't have released this hit piece until October 31 so it would be too late to refute it.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/16/th...mpaign=haupdate

They are dangerous when cornered.