Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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The trolls are out in full force today trying to beat down the Al Gore movement. As shown in this troll thread on Daily Kos and throughly debunked here the neo-cons will use any and all means and measures to lie where needed.
It seems Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News is twisting Al Gore’s standard response of “I have no plans to run” into “I will not seek the office of the Presidency.” Murdoch, for those not in the know, owns Fox News and now the Wall Street Journal, typically not known to be the bastions of truth.
But I will give props to the Murdoch camp. By lying about Gore, it puts puts the meme out there that he is not a contender and forces Gore to denounce the statement. It should be further mentioned that for what ever reason, Rupert Murdoch is backing Hillary Clinton and at this point, Al Gore is the ONLY one who can disrupt her campaign. Notice how Fox News goes after Gore repeatedly and leaves Hillary mostly unscathed? And after Gore’s Current.com video releases on Monday, Murdoch may have felt the time was right to ratchet up the attack on the Goracle.
However, I am tapping my foot and I am not signaling for a Senator Craig reach-around.
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