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from: Ross Sauer
date: 2009-02-14 19:34:14
subject: Fake mouse story

Once again, conservatives, lie.

A Feb. 13 Washington Examiner "family-friendly news satire" by Scott Ott
(not on the Examiner website as far as we could tell) begins with the claim
that "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the inclusion of $30 million in
stimulus package money to preserved the habitat of the endangered Salt
Marsh Harvest Mouse."

The mouse story is false. There is no money in the stimulus bill dedicated
to protecting the salt marsh mouse. Nevertheless, Matt Drudge and Fox News
promoted the claim, which is likely where Ott picked it up.

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