Wait Wait Don't Fall for that Cr*p

norbalish

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Saturday March 31, 2012 · 6:08 PM PDT

2012/03/31 · 18:08

Ok, first time diary, first attempt etc. Sorry, there will be no links/etc.
Just listened to the podcast of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (WWDTM) for 3/31.
It's something I look forward to every week.
This time, however, I was shocked, alarmed, deeply disturbed to hear them play, within the first couple of minutes, a doctored version of Solicitor General Verrelli's opening statement at the Supreme Court. (I went to the SCOTUS website to verify, and you should too!)
I assume it was the RNC's version.
They proceeded to make a slew of jokes about it and at no point in the rest of the show did they issue a correction.
I assume they got taken in by the RNC version and weren't, well, "real" journalists and didn't question the source. So now that bit of disgusting propaganda has been swallowed by the NPR audience and the WWDTM podcast audience (quite sizeable, it's frequently in the top one or two in iTunes).... a little more below the squiqqly thing....

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