A Swift kick: phony news hits home

As a sucker who once fell for an Internet hoax --in retrospect, the fluttering North Korean flag in the corner of the ''Stalinist" website I wrote about in 2002 should have tipped me off -- I ought to sympathize with Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, MSNBC, and others who have reported on phony news emanating from the Swift Report website ... (Full article: 641 words)

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