What Happens When the Near Times Has to Run a Correction?

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The volume of lies that george is talking about does not just produce the neilism that anne was describing, it also produces a view among those who are disposed to believe trump. It bounces right off them if one point or another, point seems to be discredited, although they tend not to even acknowledge that. But a, you know, since we're using the horseshi metaphor, there's got to be a pony in there somewhere. And and a. In my latest piece, i spent a lot of time talking to and writing about a new york city fire fighter who was overwhelmed by the quantity of lies in trump land and believed that some of them must be true

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