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To: tejek who wrote (630036)	10/2/2011 9:27:10 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577183

Earlier this week, I published a post pointing out that the Daily Caller's claim that the EPA plans to hire 230,000 employees to enforce new climate regulations is false. Since then the Daily Caller has quadrupled-down on the claim, despite a number of other outlets—first Politico, then Greg Sargent's Washington Post blog—also pointing out that it was flat-out wrong. Now the Caller has published an editor's note that, rather than reasserting the claim, attempts to reframe their entire argument. *Unfortunately a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth* has a chance to put its pants on.** Al