How Smear Works

So this is how smear works.

The Conservatives decided about a month ago to call in question the impartiality of pollster Frank Graves, who provides polls for the CBC.

The attacks were unquestionably ludicrous, and were rightfully dismissed by the CBC.

But a month later, here's what you get: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/no-more-mr-nice-guys/article1577854/

The same Frank Graves is quoted in the Globe and Mail, but his words are now followed by a disclaimer that paints him as a Liberal supporter.

For the Conservatives, it's mission accomplished. For the Globe, it provides further evidence of the newspaper's descent into crass demagoguery.