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NY Times' Bumiller uncritically quoted McCain's distortion of Obama's remarks on subprime lending

Summary: The New York Times uncritically quoted Sen. John McCain saying of Sen. Barack Obama: "[A]s recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, a good idea." The article did not mention that McCain was distorting Obama's comments from a September 2007 speech, as several media outlets -- including the Times -- noted when McCain previously made the same accusation against Obama.
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Posted by eweston8542983

I think there's an unfilled market here. Images of some of our dancing, singing, all action packed media figures having painful (but not physcally destructive)contact with reality.

Could be very popular.

Posted Thursday October 9, 2008 2:21:18 PM EDT / Flag this comment

Posted by wzwriter in reply to eweston8542983

They could have Tom Bergeron host it, and call it "Dancing Around the Truth".

:-)

Posted Thursday October 9, 2008 2:24:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment