"Dave Drum -> All"  wrote in
news:31346$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 DD> Op-Ed Columnist:  Too Good to Check
 DD> By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

 DD> This tall tale just had to be repeated. And repeated. And repeated.
 DD> The facts had to wait till Anderson Cooper checked them out.

 DD> On Nov. 4, Anderson Cooper did the country a favor. He expertly
 DD> deconstructed on his CNN show the bogus rumor that President Obama’s
 DD> trip to Asia would cost $200 million a day. This was an important
 DD> “story.” It underscored just how far ahead of his time Mark Twain was
 DD> when he said a century before the Internet, “A lie can travel halfway
 DD> around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” But it also
 DD> showed that there is an antidote to malicious journalism — and that’s
 DD> good journalism.

Just about all the right-wing noise machine has dropped this stupid attack,
letting it fade into the memory hole.

Not WingNutDaily...I mean WorldNetDaily.

Don't forget though, this far-right blog is still pushing the "Birther"
crapola.

And you should see all the anti-Muslim and anti-gay smears they publish.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2010/obamatrip.html

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