But here's the "Man Bites Dog" grabber... the lies are coming from the source. Within the last few days it has been revealed that two sensational stories were actually lies propagated by those who claimed to be involved.
One is of a woman who claimed her husband was a solider in Iraq who died taking a bullet for an Iraqi child. Her husband was not in Iraq. He isn't even in the military. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/10/gi.hoax.ap/
The second, revealed earlier today, involves the woman who supposedly threw her infant from the window of her moving vehicle. LIE. The woman who supposedly did this is the woman who called it in and is actually the boys mother.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/11/newborn.tossed/index.html
Incase you were wondering, yes, both of these incidents happened in morally superior red states (Colorado and Florida respectively).
WTF. Lies, lies, lies, No longer the domain of the powerful elite. We can all lie too and they'll buy it and sell it right back to us because we will buy it too (by "they," let me clarify that CNN is my source for both of these stories, but the AP is most likely the root). A sensational story hits the wire and every editor, producer, and sadly, blogger is on it like (metaphor of choice).
I heard some of my students talking about the baby tossing incident in my class today, like it actally happened. It didn't happen. This is the power. Don't be blinded. Don't have faith, don't believe.
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