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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (520753)10/15/2009 8:15:46 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1578261
 
I'm sure you can listen and hear 10-15 things you don't want to believe ... but that doesn't make them lies. Say, this wouldn't be a matter of accusing him of lying to take attention away from lies spread about him?

What I'm talking about:

Rick Sanchez quoted Rush Limbaugh on CNN and the quote was fabricated. The racially insensitive quote attributed to Limbaugh was made up on the internet and not uttered by Rush.

Sanchez has refused to apologize for using the quote in a hit job on Limbaugh designed to destroy Limbaugh’s bid for the St. Louis Rams.

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MSNBC Peddles: MSNBC couldn't track down the quote, of course, it being made up out of whole cloth.

Did that stop them from running it? No, of course not -- they quoted linebacker James Farrior mentioning it, running the quote on screen, with the "citation" "Cited by James Farrior."

Cited. See, they're not saying Limbaugh said it -- they're saying someone else says he said it.

That's "journalism" now at MSNBC -- quote things you know for a fact aren't quotes at all and dodge your fact-checking by just noting a linebacker "cited" the claim.

That "cited by James Farrior" is evidence of MSNBC's guilty knowledge -- it's plain they attempted to find a citation for the claim. It's also clear that they came up empty.

So rather than debunking the claim, or just not reporting it all, they report that someone else claims it was said. And offer the word "cited" in the supposed attribution to give the quote some kind of superficial authority.

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