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SomethingFishy

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12. That may be true however a "journalist" would not take a story from

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #9)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:02 PM

Dec 2013

and obscure website and report it as fact without verifying the story. Fox does this all the time then they retract on some twitter feed and their audience has no idea they were full of it..

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