I don’t think you read 18 U.S.C 1001 or the description of it that I posted. It doesn’t matter whether the person knows they are deceiving the feds; all that matters is whether they knew they were saying something false or covering up part of the truth in order to deceive.
I corrected their factual errors; they refused to correct their content to reflect the truth. They knew they were deceiving, or they “consciously disregarded or averted (their) eyes from the likely falsity.” Because this involved an issue under the jurisdiction of at least one of the 3 branches of federal government, that was a crime.
The media has gotten away with its lies for WAY too long. No more.
Spend a quiet twenty minutes contemplating what things would be like today if government could use coercive power to prosecute any media outlet that made a statement that they determined to be false or incorrect.
How does this differ from arbitrary censorship?
Thanks once again, butterdezillion, for your hard work.
This guy continues to deceive even with his admission that he’s “technically” incorrect.
He’s outright wrong (again) when he says that Obama’s campaign released the birth certificate. NOBODY HAS RELEASED ANY BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!
An unprovenanced, photoshopped, possibly computer-created digital image posted on blogs and campaign websites is NOT a birth certificate.
Nor have Hawaiian officials verified its “legitimacy” Far from it.
As butterdezillion pointed out, they not only did NOT verify that online image, they specifically stated that they cannot tell anyone what it represents AND their laws forbid them commenting upon it, one way or the other.
Technicalities. How interesting. So in this guy’s apparent opinion, whether or not Obama is eligible to be POTUS (which, btw, requires NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP, not mere citizenship) is just a technicality. Technically, I suppose, he considers himself a rational person as well as a “journalist” (more like journOlister).
What kind of reporter invents a story that the Hawaiian Secretary of State released Obama’s birth certificate? Secretary of State? Does he simply make up “facts” as he goes along?
“The facts are the facts,” said that great philosopher B. H. Obama recently.
“Yes,” agreed the People, “but what exactly, sir, ARE THE FACTS?”