Dog Bites Man *yawn*–Mass Media Podpeople Lie *BIG yawn*

Just following yet another example of typical slander “reporting” by Mass Media Podpeople…

A huge tip o’ the tam to Washington Post columnists Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger for underlining the lies, damned lies and deliberately twisted quotes that are the staple of Mass Media Podpeople “reporting”–in their column this week that “reported”

“The conservative shock-pundit, who sniped on ‘Good Morning America’ Monday that she hoped the Democratic candidate would be ‘killed in a terrorist assassination plot,’ was a guest on MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ Tuesday night, prompting a live call-in by Elizabeth, who demanded that Coulter ‘stop the personal attacks.’”

Note: the so-called “reporters” said specifically that Coulter hoped the Democratic candidate would be ‘killed in a terrorist assassination plot.’ An outright, bald-faced lie made with obvious malicious intent. Slander, in the ordinary (and legal) understanding of the term. What Coulter actually said was,

“…Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I’ve learned my lesson. If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

This just unserscores the fact that Mass Media Podpeople will let no lie go untold in order to slander those whose views they disagree with, and they will let any tasteless remark (ex: the Bill Maher comment) slide if made by someone like Maher about those they dislike, while prominently “reporting” any lie that falsely portrays a simliar “attack” by someone like Coulter about someone on “their side” of trhe Great Divide.

Lies, damned lies and Mass Media Podpeople “reporting”.

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