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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 05:28 PM
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Media complicity in action: CNN and Swift Liars
Edited on Wed Aug-13-08 05:33 PM by ProSense

Judgment

08.13.08 -- 4:43PM By Josh Marshall

CNN is currently running a segment promoting Jerome Corsi's new anti-Obama book.


NYT best seller nonfiction? Meet Jerome "Swift Lying Freeper" Corsi

In 2004, the MSM was a free advertising outlet for the Bush campaign when it launched an onslaught in August:



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doublethink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 05:31 PM
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1. Hey Corsi will be pimping his book on Larry King Live tonight too!!
:eyes:
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 05:37 PM
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2. Promoting, yes, but at the same time
They did a fair job of ridiculing the guy. So I thought.
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Heather MC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 05:45 PM
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3. True they did but I have witness CNN tell the truth the first night, then everyday after that repeat
the lie. It's a clever way they cover their asses. huh who us bias no way we reported it was fake 5 months ago!
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 06:03 PM
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4. Exactly,
same as they did in 2004. Facts didn't stop CNN from doing nearly 300 segments on the liars.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 06:37 PM
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5. The Reichwing certainly figured this shit out
Write a book filled with lies. HAve billionairres fund bundled buys of those books filled with lies. Make the book filled with lies a NY Times Besteseller. Send liar who wrote the lies to all MSM outlets to further spread the lies with impunity.

Yep, we can't fight that.

Everybody missed what "swiftboating" was really all about. It's not about telling lies about war heroes. It's just about successfully telling lies.
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