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malaise

(269,054 posts) Sat Feb 13, 2016, 08:30 PM Feb 2016

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Grassley lied

Kennedy was appointed during an election year - February 1988.

Heard that on GEM$NBComcast and checked

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Grassley lied (Original Post) malaise Feb 2016 OP

They don't fact check Kittycat Feb 2016 #1

Also Powell and Rehnquist in 1972 GeoWilliam750 Feb 2016 #2

They make stuff up malaise Feb 2016 #3

One sometimes wonders whether GeoWilliam750 Feb 2016 #4

Kittycat

(10,493 posts)

1. They don't fact check

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 08:49 PM

Feb 2016

They just wait for the news to cycle, then someone will mention it like everyone knows it, and move on.

GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)

2. Also Powell and Rehnquist in 1972

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 09:18 PM

Feb 2016

Brennan in 1956
Cardozo in 1932
Clarke in 1916
Brandeis in 1916
Pitney in 1912

And quite a few before that.

malaise

(269,054 posts)

3. They make stuff up

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 09:26 PM

Feb 2016

all the time

GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)

4. One sometimes wonders whether

Reply to malaise (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 09:29 PM

Feb 2016

They have ever heard of Wikipedia.

Or the intertubes.

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