Every single lie, even the small ones.
Paul Krugman:
Fox News, which is a partisan operation in all but name, plays a crucial role in the Little Lie strategy — which is why there is growing pressure on Democratic politicians not to do anything, like participating in Fox-hosted debates, that helps Fox impersonate a legitimate news organization.
But Fox has had plenty of help. Even Time’s Joe Klein, a media insider if anyone is, wrote of the Pelosi trip that “the media coverage of this on CNN and elsewhere has been abysmal.” For example, CNN ran a segment about Ms. Pelosi’s trip titled “Talking to Terrorists.”
The G.O.P.’s reversion to the Little Lie technique is a symptom of political weakness, of a party reduced to trivial smears because it has nothing else to offer. But the technique will remain effective — and the U.S. political scene will remain ugly — as long as many people in the news media keep playing along.
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The rafts that are aimed at the Bush/Rove compound in Paraguay?
And the gay priest? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_F._Judge
You think he was murdered instead of being the first victim of 9/11?
Link?
Fox has resorted, not once but several times lately, to the simple expedient of labeling Republ[ic]ans caught in bad acts as Democrats in the crawl or the caption. That should work; I mean, who really listens, anyway? As long as Fox continues to do things like that, no self-respecting Democrat should give Fox even a moment of their time.
Well, if you put it that way, yes. He and all the rest of the 3000+ were murdered in cold blood. I thought you were refering specifically to him for a reason, rather than calling into question 9/11 itself.
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