Bloomberg weighs in on smearmail as well

Ben Smith reports on Mayor Bloomberg's speech to a Jewish audience in Boca today:

One thing Judaism always welcomes is a debate. It's one of the great tenets of our faith: to not accept things as told - but to question; to seek answers; to explore. But as we do that, let's make sure that we, as Jews and as voters, keep the conversation focused on the facts and not let it descend into false rumor and innuendo.

Unfortunately, we've already seen that happen. As I'm sure many of you know, there are plenty of emails floating around the Internet targeting Jewish voters and saying that Senator Obama is secretly a Muslim, and a radical one at that. Let's call those rumors what they are: lies.

There's more. He really got into the topic.