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  • Friday, March 2, 2007 10:01 AM

    Today's enraged rhetorical question

    "When the information conveyed turns out to be not true, it's a little harder to identify the person who was doing the lying."

    Why, goddamit, why is it harder?

    When will the press start acting as if they were accountable to their readers, and burn anonymous sources that lie to them and the country?

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