Building a Nation of Know-Nothings

New York Times by Timothy Egan | Aug. 26, 2010 (Opinion)

If the lies about the president continue to gain traction, we're all going to pay a price. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Julian Friedland - Aug 25, 2010 - 6:42 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Julian Friedland (review), Bob Herrschaft (review), Glenn LaBauve (review), Preston Watts (review), Fabrice Florin (review)
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Julian Friedland
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 by Julian Friedland - Aug. 28, 2010

Does a good job of showing how the lies get planted into the mainstream, i.e., via innuendo on Fox and Limbaugh.

I am not sure what solution there is to this problem, except for new regulation requiring journalists and commentators to back up their innuendos with facts.

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Glenn LaBauve
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 by Glenn LaBauve - Aug. 28, 2010
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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Aug. 28, 2010
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Bob Herrschaft
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 by Bob Herrschaft - Aug. 27, 2010

This is good editorial journalism. Although Egan is preaching to the choir, his references are well selected and put into succinct language that makes what's at stake clear to the reader.

The score and temperature are not subject to debate. Yet a president’s birthday or whether he was even in the White House on the day TARP was ... More »

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Preston Watts
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 by Preston Watts - Aug. 28, 2010

The similarities in style, and disdain of substance of the accused and the accuser are only invisible to a practitioner of the far left or far right. Some call it the straw-man argument.

If I seldom go to church and my grandmother was a Christian and my father was a Christian and then an atheist and my mother was Muslim. When confronted with issues that require a decision based on my morel code and my choices align more often with Christians than Muslims. Christians would consider me with approval and Muslims would consider me a Christian. It wouldn't matter what I said I was. If you add to that my name is Joe Bob, and I am habitually less than truthful they will ... More »

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