The Democrats have learned that silence is not a virtue, and the Obama campaign is quick to repudiate false charges and clarify distortions.
During the same period as the making of the film, Huppenthal actually served as a featured speaker with the notorious state senate president Russell Pearce at an extremist Tea Party rally in 2009, but never repudiated widespread charges of his own President Obama as a "Nazi".
In the document, "Nostra Aetate" ("In Our Time"), the Vatican repudiated the charge that blamed Jews as a people for Jesus' crucifixion.
But it began when several Roman Catholic scholars voiced concern about the project because of Mr. Gibson's affiliation with a splinter Catholic group that rejects the modern papacy and the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which in 1965 repudiated the charge of deicide against the Jews.
When Stevenson did not repudiate the endorsement Johnson charged that he had sold his soul for the labor vote, that he was opposed to Taft-Hartley & had made a "secret" deal that it elected he would vote to repeal it.
In 1966, the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council released its "Declaration of the Jews," a document that repudiated "the ancient charge of collective Jewish guilt in the death of Jesus".
Knox repudiated her accusation.
A rush to repudiate that error is under way.
At the time Mr. Monserrate was charged, Democrats were slow to repudiate him or his alleged behavior.
After Coloman repudiated her on a charge of adultery, Eufemia fled to Kiev, where she gave birth to a son, Boris, who was never regarded as Coloman's son by his Hungarian relatives.
