How to become a 'hate monger'

David Freddoso wrote a book about Barack Obama, and has therefore "made a career off dishonest, extreme hate mongering" and is a "card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine . . . a smear merchant," according to the Obama campaign.

Building a reputation as a right-wing smear merchant usually requires decades of hard work, but industrious young Mr. Freddoso seems to have risen to the top of the hate-mongering heap in just five short years.

(Cross-posted at AmSpecBlog.)

UPDATE: Ramesh Ponnuru:

If the Obama campaign wants to stay in the speech-suppression business, it ought to find some better thugs.

Hey, Ramesh, that's an unfair smear! Team Obama has the best thugs money can buy.