Comments on: Fact-Checking Zakaria http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/fact-checking_zakaria/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:49:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Steve Verdon http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/fact-checking_zakaria/comment-page-1/#comment-515257 Steve Verdon Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:20:07 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=25518#comment-515257 <blockquote>That’s still a heckuva lot of money but, if we’re going to discuss the subject sensibly, we should probably leave the hyperbole and half-truths aside.</blockquote> It is an election year, hyperbole and half-truths are the order of the day, yes even from pundits.

That’s still a heckuva lot of money but, if we’re going to discuss the subject sensibly, we should probably leave the hyperbole and half-truths aside.

It is an election year, hyperbole and half-truths are the order of the day, yes even from pundits.

]]> By: Bithead http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/fact-checking_zakaria/comment-page-1/#comment-515237 Bithead Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:30:39 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=25518#comment-515237 Well, that meme does have the advantage of matching the horror scenario of everything at WalMart, that example of running dog capitalism, being made in China.... (Snicker) Mind, I'm not making light of the relationship with China. But it does seem to me that the stretch of this situation matches almost perfectly the strech of the situation you describe, and I wonder if it wasn't designed so. Well, that meme does have the advantage of matching the horror scenario of everything at WalMart, that example of running dog capitalism, being made in China.... (Snicker)

Mind, I'm not making light of the relationship with China. But it does seem to me that the stretch of this situation matches almost perfectly the strech of the situation you describe, and I wonder if it wasn't designed so.

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