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more about #callingbullshit more comments → sassenach: I can't imagine 15 minutes about Michael Reagan. Other than "son of Ronald Reagan and talk radio host" what's to say?? more » onebadclam: "So, there is this guy, he really liked this other guy who died..." This could have been a single geriatric heartbeat away from the Presidency. more » City_Dater: "Sarah Palin quoting Newt Gingrich on Ronald Reagan" pretty much sums up everything that is all wrong and sad about the GOP now. more » Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): An article 3.5 years old is "recent"? In this era of practically instant news streams? Hm. more » HiredGoons: 'Toad Speaks Words of Newt.' more » depardoo: The speech was so God-awful that ol' Newt must be seething to be associated with it. more » TittiBarr: The mere fact that she can read is newsworthy. I'm surprised she didn't plagiarize from The Economist. more » flossy: Aren't some things so banal that they can't be plagiarized? I seriously doubt Newt Gingrich was the first person to spout platitudes about St. Raygun ... more » Colonel Mustard: Shouldn't we just be thrilled that she's finally not using her *own* words in public anymore? more » bluebears: It's nice to see that SI writers were a bunch of whiney little hall monitors back in the 60s as well. more » shostakobitch: the revolution will not be advertised. more » Kid Twist: If only Rick Reilly had been with SI in '68 ... more » allyzay: they couldn't at least try for realism and use the old SI logo? more » Mount_Prion: Oh man, this is awesome. Seriously. More calling bullshit and investigating, please. These kinds of posts are rapidly becoming my favorite thing about... more » effthepolice: Even one more crime happening on our streets is a problem, not to mention a 43% increase, especially when that crime is happening to you or before you... more » -
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Sarah Palin Didn't 'Plagiarize'
Grow up, liberals. Sarah Palin gave a 15-minute introduction to Michael Reagan at some event last week, and the HuffPo has discovered that some of the words she used belong to Newt Gingrich! More » -
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Violent Crime Wave Makes Downtown NYC Slightly Less Not-Dangerous!
How bad is it out there? So bad that innocent citizens are being assaulted in fawncy downtown NYC much more than they were last year! Panic! How bad is it really? It's not that bad: More » -
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Swine Flu Panic: Bullshit
Quickly, don your paper masks! Stay indoors! The dirty Mexican pig influenza is here, to sicken you! Wocka wocka. Did you know that America had another swine flu panic, in 1976? Let's reminisce, and laugh: More » -
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New Media Landscape Is Political Hack Wonderland
So the fact that nothing is ever "edited" or "fact-checked" anymore because of "the internet" is so great because of citizen journalism and no gatekeepers etc! But the down side is all the bullshit. More » -
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Fox News Is Not Actually This Stupid
We are pretty sure this is a photoshop. But who knows because it just appeared out of the blue on a Tumblog today, without attribution or sourcing. Maybe crazy Rex is right about this [via] business! It's been tracked back to this demotivational poster, making it already an altered image, though it was presented without that crucial bit of information when it first set down on a the microblogging corner of the internet today, whereupon it was emailed and IM'd to your editors like three times in ten minutes. Now it's been reblogged on god knows how many other Tumbling Logs! So let's play Snopes: find us a clip, guys, because this looks like bullshit. If it's not on MediaMatters it didn't happen. We did crack up last night when the Fox graphics said "ALERT: MRS OBAMA: I LOVE AMERICA" though, among other statements that look hilarious when preceded by "ALERT."
