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April Fools joke now fact. (Jimbo Wales)
Because Global Warming is such a partisan issue, there has been some resistance to buy my assertion that editors essentially set up their editorial boards to launder facts for pundits like George F. Will. So, let me give you another example.
Ann Coulter wrote a column in which she refers to Obama having told GM and Chrysler that their participation in NASCAR was an "unnecessary expenditure."
This is obviously a reference to an article in Car and Driver that said exactly that. Here's the thing, though: it was an April Fool's joke. Because of the brouhaha over it, the magazine has since apologized and said the prank had "gone too far."
The kicker? Coulter has yet to issue a correction.
Why should she? Clearly, her column meets Fred Hiatt's criteria for accuracy; like George F. Will, it may very well be that the source she cites believes the story to be a joke, but that doesn't make Coulter's interpretation any less valid.
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