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How do you know a Republican is lying? Ask one: If the Republicans can lower gas prices for 60 days before an election, why won't they do it all the time?
by ca democrat on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:14:01 AM PDT
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This was an excellent piece. Factual analysis that slices through the rumors like a knife - the true virtue of reason.
P.S. It also shows how far critics try to go to find dirt when there isnt any there.
by phillyprogressive08 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:02:09 AM PDT
I am really amazed the editor did not bust it about the Snopes piece. Snopes is a go to site for debunking urban myths and viral emails. I have used it to break the news for my wingnut step dad and for friends on the left (who cited the bogus bit about W from Reagan's bio). The frame in the article is not to use SNopes in this way at all but rather as a site which posted one of the rumors, and as someone else noted IMMEDIATELY BLEW IT AWAY.
The whole piece was just awful, awful, awful, and I have lots of appreciation for Atrios' way of spanking young Mr. Bacon (who as the above link shows was just six years ago a Yale junior interning at the WaPo). This of course makes one wonder how valuable a Yale education is-I mean how can someone amenable to such obviously weak intellectual effort make it so high..., er, oh yea there is W isn't there....
Incidentally, Young Bacon has shown his journamalism skills off previously in a notably bad and poorly examined piece on the netroots eviscerated by Stirling Newberry here.
``...Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.'' from `Lost' by David Wagoner
by dlcox1958 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 12:25:09 PM PDT
as journalists. Six years experience huh? it really shows BTW, not that a 20 something can't be very good, but the lack of scope and range and historical amnesia is all over this guy.
John McCain: a survivor, not a hero. Just ask his first wife. He had his chance to be a hero and blew it.
by Pete Rock on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 12:46:54 PM PDT
I am thinking Perry Bacon jr wanted to "be a journalist" but the 2007 edition of the washington Post wants journamalists! I didn't know the links were for various rumor tripe, but not for the "snopes.com" comment which in spite of its popularity is probably unrecognized by 90% or more of the voting public.
by Pete Rock on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 01:09:18 PM PDT
Obviously young-ones can do well at this game and that is not the issue per se. I just wanted to tweak Bacon a bit here.
by dlcox1958 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:55:13 PM PDT
This link in conjunction with Snopes is all you need.
by Shem on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 01:28:40 PM PDT
Shame the Washington Post.
Talk to Action
by Troutfishing on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:24:35 PM PDT
...that a Yale education is no guarantee of intelligence or integrity...
"There is nothing false about hope." -- Barack Obama
by DC Pol Sci on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:13:37 PM PDT
(I think it's Gerald Ford I'm paraphrasing) ...she'd be rolling over in her grave. I didn't read the WaPo back in the early 70s, I don't know if I would ever have recognized it as being on my side; but the past few years have been atrocious.
I'm not asking you to take the country back, I'm asking you to take it forward-Van Jones.
by Judge Moonbox on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:21:46 PM PDT
We're retiring Steve LaTourette (R-Family Values for You But Not for Me) and sending Judge Bill O'Neill to Congress from Ohio-14: http://www.oneill08.com/
by anastasia p on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:12:35 PM PDT
do you have a link to the threat with her comment? Or is it a diary?
by Heart of the Rockies on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 04:37:14 PM PDT
wow--that's a great sig line...
Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.Give to Populista's Obamathon 2.0!
by TrueBlueMajority on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:03:29 PM PDT
wide narrow
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