Smearing the Victim

In order to see how much contempt Arnold has for the victims he did/didn't apologize to, and how uncritical our liberal media was towards his campaign, one needs only to look at the case of Rhonda Miller. Miller was a stunt woman who claimed to be one of the victims of Der Gropenfuhrer. A couple of days letter, egged on by the Free Republic, AM hate radio, and the Schawrzenegger campaign itself, the liberal media dutifully parroted claims that Ms. Miller had a very long rap sheet, because if you typed her name into a criminal database, a long list of prostitution and other charges came up.

Last night on ABC (no link yet to the story...if anyone can find it), Jake Tapper reported that Rhonda Miller the criminal and Rhonda Miller the stunt woman were actually two different people. Shocker.

I'll post a link or transcript as soon as I can hunt it down... but, here is the New York Post giving the unconfirmed version:

His campaign also accused Miller of prostitution - a charge strongly denied by Miller's lawyer, Gloria Allred.

"This is beyond sleazy," said Allred. "She has no criminal record whatsoever."

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Schwarzenegger's campaign said L.A. County records showed Rhonda Miller was charged seven times with prostitution, and convicted six.

But Allred said the records referred to a different Rhonda Miller.

Sounds like the first candidate for a character defamation lawsuit.