Dave Johnson exposes Republicans’ attempt to smear Democrats with a false story about them suggesting immunizations prior to visiting NASCAR events.
Johnson reveals:
In fact the aides were visiting “health care centers, detention facilities and other operations where they could be exposed to communicable diseases” and the immunizations are routine.
The Drudge Report has been headlining the smear [...]
Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s [...]
In a remarkably weak post on Huffington Post entitled: Scrubbed: Edwards Filmmakers Deleted Website Raises Questions author Sam Stein (de)posits on the controversy he apparently invented specifically for himself regarding a “mystery website” that *gasp* disappeared from the internet, inferring some vaguely nefarious but entirely unspecified conspiracy about presidential candidate John Edwards and the non-political, [...]
Law.com - Judge: Bloggers Entitled to Immunity Under Communications Act
Bloggers cannot be hit with libel suits on the basis of anonymous postings on their Web sites because federal law grants them immunity by explicitly stating that they cannot be treated as the “publisher” of such comments, a federal judge has ruled.
In his 22-page opinion in [...]
Why do people fall for obvious FUD and manipulation so easily? What is it that causes us to suspend rational and intellectual honesty in favor of the emotional “charge” we get out of propaganda?
The quote below summarizes things quite well:
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it [...]