Except that the "national conversation" was promulgated by Shepard's murder being caused by the killers' hatred of homosexuality, which, apparently, wasn't their reason for killing him. ABC's verbiage here is remarkably similar to Dan Rather's--"The documents may be false but the story is true"--semi-mea culpa.
Exactly. The notion that the "national conversation" concerning Shepard had just been dubbed "fake but accurate" is the first thing I thought when reading that part.
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