The other day political journalist Rich Miller noted that Illinois Review editor Fran Eaton was violating copyright laws by posting subscriber’s only material he had written for Capitol Fax. Today, she does the same by copying + pasting an entire Illinois Times article.

Even more interesting, Ms. Eaton labels the fact-based article about Illinois conservatives’ efforts to demonize Sen. Barack Obama (and, in particular, infopimp crass distortions about his church and his faith) “amazing” and “entertaining” as if it was somehow inaccurate.

In fact, the article has all the stock conserv-o-partisan players — Ms. Eaton, Dave Smith of the Illinois anti-Family Institute, Jill Stanek of “Debby Does…” fame, and a host more. It connects the dots on the history of Obama opposition from these comrades and also points to the many ways they are willing to twist and distort his words and the words of those with whom they like to tar and feather him as they try to advance their conservative agenda while desperately trying tearing him down any way they can.

Did Ms. Eaton forget that she herself wrote a post decrying Sen. Obama’s abiding faith and how she considers his faith dangerous to the conservative agenda? Other times, she has simply called Sen. Obama “dangerous” not because he actually is but because of her partisan-tinged misunderstandings of his church’s tenets. Yet here, in her post copying an article about her repeated partisan attempts at sliming Sen. Obama, she claims to be “humble”.

Humble? Ms. Eaton has been systematically info-pimping her schlock for well over a year.

As we saw with Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, conserv-o-partisans are avoiding the high negatives of their failed policies by attacking the Democratic candidate’s strongest attributes. In 2000, we got lies from George Bush wherein he falsely claimed Al Gore said he invented the Internet, etc. VP Gore of course never said that, but it didn’t stop then-candidate Bush from info-pimping this and similar lies in an effort to undermine Gore’s credibility and whitewash then-Gov. Bush’s own lacking credibility. Same in 2004 in which veterans who never served with Kerry (and even a few who had, despite the fact they sung a different, completely opposite tune before 2004) bald-faced lying about Sen. Kerry’s time in Vietnam.

Now, circa 2008, we have these myopic, hollow attacks on Sen. Obama’s former pastor, the hard truths to which his pastor has borne witnessed, his fellow church congregants and even Obama’s fundamental Christian faith which guides him each and every day…

But hey, at least we’re not talking about the effect of conservatives’ failed policies on the economy, our international standing, and more.

Update: Ill Review commenter “Marriage Defender” exclaims:

The Illinois Times is a left-wing Christian hating rag!

What a coinky-dink! I’ve repeatedly explained how Fran Eaton and other conserv-o-partisans write their own Christian hating screeds at that “right-wing rag” known as Illinois Review, among others. (Of course, one has to rely on those same partisans’ definition of “anti-Christian” in order to discuss such things….)