{"id":16994,"date":"2014-04-26T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16994"},"modified":"2014-04-26T08:08:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T12:08:51","slug":"kerry-lies-repeats-debunked-state-department-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/26\/kerry-lies-repeats-debunked-state-department-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Lies, Repeats Debunked State Department Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama<\/em> has the article Kerry Lies, Repeats Debunked State Department Claim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday the New York Times Public Editor criticized<\/a> the paper’s handling of the story:<\/p>\n

It all feels rather familiar \u2013 the rushed publication of something exciting, often based on an executive branch leak. And then, afterward, with a kind of \u201cmorning after\u201d feeling, here comes a more sober, less prominently displayed followup story, to deal with objections while not clarifying much of anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The pictures from the coup government in Ukraine distributed through the U.S. State Department are obviously fakery and purely anti-Russian propaganda. The story of Russian “special operations personnel” in east-Ukraine is a lie. It has been debunked as such in several U.S. publications. Despite that Kerry yesterday repeated it proving himself to be exactly what Putin had claimed, a liar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have read and viewed many of the sources mentioned in this blog post by Moon of Alabama<\/em>. Moon of Alabama<\/em> has assembled these pieces in a well constructed way that is worth featuring on my blog.<\/p>\n

For those who think they know what Russia is up to because they have bought into the lies that the US is telling, I refer back to my Mark Twain quote<\/a>, \u201cIt ain\u2019t what you don\u2019t know that gets you into trouble. It\u2019s what you know for sure that just ain\u2019t so.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I also find it gratifying that The New York Times Public Editor is as skeptical as I am about the (mis)information that the newspaper so often publishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama has the article Kerry Lies, Repeats Debunked State Department Claim. Yesterday the New York Times Public Editor criticized the paper’s handling of the story: It all feels rather familiar \u2013 the rushed publication of something exciting, often based on an executive branch leak. And then, afterward, with a kind of \u201cmorning after\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16998,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994\/revisions\/16998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}