Thursday, July 22, 2004

Don't believe everything you read, II

Israellycool says he almost opened a champagne bottle this week when he read the AP headline, "Arafat Critic Wounded As Violence Grows," and thought, for a moment, it said "critically wounded."
You can imagine what I thought had happened today when I saw the following teaser on the main page of OpionionJournal: "Good news in the election returns despite McKinney's comeback. Plus Arafat's cancer scare!"
Turns out, he was just regurgitating that old canard about Israel polluting the West Bank with depleted-uranium bullets and causing an increase in cancer rates. Such a blatant lie, hardly even worth debunking on snopes.com.

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