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   Basqueian said, 4 months ago

   Rerun?
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   Clark Kent said, 4 months ago

   Rerun. And unfortunately the well funded far “right” probably has disinformation services like this. How much is that guy making? Does he have medical and dental benefits? Doubt it.
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   saywhatwhat said, 4 months ago

   rerun but always timely.
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   surfstuff55 said, 4 months ago

   the well funded far “right” probably has disinformation services like this.

   Yes, called FoxNews
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   The Heritage Foundation
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   Pacopuddy said, 4 months ago

   It may be a re-run, but I LOVE this theme, and it’s always worth reading. Go for it, Trudeau!
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   They do, but it isn’t framed as it is here for ironic use.
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   rpmurray said, 4 months ago

   I didn’t know that the loony liberal left farmed out their fact checkers.
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   vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago

   and, the call center is in india. so, people are getting their version of facts from india?
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    beprepn said, 4 months ago

    It seems that I should be able to invoke Godwin’s law if somebody calls me a “denier?” I.e., they are trying to associate me with Holocaust deniers.
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    puddleglum1066 said, 4 months ago

    I think Trudeau’s a bit off-the-mark with this series. Partisans tend not to actually make stuff up, as the “myFACTS” company implies, but cherry-pick bits of information that are individually accurate and then assemble them into a montage, from which the reader then infers an inaccurate conclusion. F’rinstance, somebody in the gun lobby plastered the social media with a graph showing number of murders committed with rifles, axes, knives, baseball bats, etc. Numbers were accurate, straight from the FBI. The bar for rifles was the shortest. If you didn’t notice they left out handguns (whose bar would have been about six times longer than the longest bar on the chart), you might have concluded that guns are not commonly used to commit murder. This was actually a pretty clumsy attempt to lie with facts, so I sorta doubt the NRA, which has access to better consultants, came up with it. But this is what lobbyists and PR flacks on all sides of every debate do. It’s much, much safer than inventing stuff that might actually be checked and found false. Indeed, do it right and even outfits like politifact will be forced to label your lie as technically “true.”
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    Rasslebear said, 4 months ago

    i really really miss the days back at Walden Pond
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    montessoriteacher said, 4 months ago

    I think GT is on the money with this one. Too bad it is a rerun, but still funny…
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    mordalo said, 4 months ago

    I’m just trying to figure out why the new avatar of Doonesbury looks like Larry King.
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    James Lewis said, 4 months ago

    @rpmurray

    rp needs this book bad, and anybody who hasn’t read it would enjoy it greatly. It is a detailed expose of the determined effort to warp reality on the part of the tobacco danger deniers, some of whom (actual scientist/whore hybrids) were the same people. (sorry for the slur on whores and people):

    “Merchants of Doubt” a 2010 book by the American science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.

    “Oreskes and Conway tell an important story about the misuse of science to mislead the public on matters ranging from the risks of smoking to the reality of global warming”
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