How do you stop a lie?
| By halperindavid - Jul 21st, 2005 at 6:05 am EDT |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
Hello right-wing blogosemisphere! To paraphrase Bob Dole, Stop lying about Paul Begala's record!
Like any responsible citizen, I receive Google Alerts . In my case, I want Google to tell me whenever a web page that Google deems "news" uses the phrase "Campus Progress." A steady stream of Google Alerts, continuing into this morning, are letting me know that Paul Begala, a one-time co-worker of mine, told our Campus Progress National Student Conference last week that he believes Republicans want to kill him and his family. Glad to know it; I do monitor politics, and, more importantly, I don't want Paul (or anyone else) killed. Only thing is, Paul didn't say what they claim he said. CampusProgress.org amply demonstrated this on Tuesday morning. Once Paul returned from a family fishing trip (out of touch but, fortunately, intact), he gave his emphatic assurance on this site that he didn't say what the right-wing blogosemisphere claimed. Yet the lie continues to spread like a mega-virus. Google it yourself. The original source of this "news," the conceptually challenged or just plain lying CNSNEWS.com still posts the lie. So does the Washington Times, from which we demanded a correction two days ago. Town Hall, FreeRepublic, GOPUSA, Rush Limbaugh -- don't expect me to add all the hyperlinks, there are just too many. (Meanwhile, the National Review's story on our conference , which CampusProgress.org already had debunked and deflated, is proudly reprinted on that left-wing website CBSNews.com --I guess part of their penance for Rathergate.) Is there anti-virus software that can help stop a lie from spreading? Not censorship, of course, but just an email to the website proprietor -- wake up; you're printing a lie; take it down.
Like any responsible citizen, I receive Google Alerts . In my case, I want Google to tell me whenever a web page that Google deems "news" uses the phrase "Campus Progress." A steady stream of Google Alerts, continuing into this morning, are letting me know that Paul Begala, a one-time co-worker of mine, told our Campus Progress National Student Conference last week that he believes Republicans want to kill him and his family. Glad to know it; I do monitor politics, and, more importantly, I don't want Paul (or anyone else) killed. Only thing is, Paul didn't say what they claim he said. CampusProgress.org amply demonstrated this on Tuesday morning. Once Paul returned from a family fishing trip (out of touch but, fortunately, intact), he gave his emphatic assurance on this site that he didn't say what the right-wing blogosemisphere claimed. Yet the lie continues to spread like a mega-virus. Google it yourself. The original source of this "news," the conceptually challenged or just plain lying CNSNEWS.com still posts the lie. So does the Washington Times, from which we demanded a correction two days ago. Town Hall, FreeRepublic, GOPUSA, Rush Limbaugh -- don't expect me to add all the hyperlinks, there are just too many. (Meanwhile, the National Review's story on our conference , which CampusProgress.org already had debunked and deflated, is proudly reprinted on that left-wing website CBSNews.com --I guess part of their penance for Rathergate.) Is there anti-virus software that can help stop a lie from spreading? Not censorship, of course, but just an email to the website proprietor -- wake up; you're printing a lie; take it down.
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Begala stunned the audience when he said ".."
I'm like, wait he stunned the audience? Was I missing something? I asked the question at the conference about Fox News, and I genuinelybelieve this is our most pressing issue and that is media reform. We cannot begin to win the battle of ideas when we have a press that says whatever it pleases, has footsoldiers to convey its message, and then nobody gives a damn to call them on it.. I think it is a very ironic moment but indeed one that calls us to action. A few posts back i have CNS news's phone number posted. CALL:)!
battle of ideas, it would be extremely helpful
if
they had a couple of original ideas to throw
out
there. Sadly, obstructionism and the threat of
a
filibuster do nothing to help this country or
your
party win any sort of credibility...let alone an
election.
Poor Paul Begala misspeaks and then blames the
media? How childish. Isn't it time the Dems
stopped the petty squabbling, got on the same
page
and realized the Republicans are NOT the
enemy?
Helloooo? In case you haven't noticed, we're
at
war with real people who want to kill us...not
some figment of Begala's overblown imagination.
The GOP wants to kill blacks, you say? Am I reading you right?
Justify that statement. I don't think you can.