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She is so EMOTIONAL. Every statement she made was about the emotional mess she felt.

That is one thing about left-wingers-Dems, like women, they think emotionally rather than logically/factually.

Reporters need to go back to their old roots of facts and double-confirmed sources.

Emotion notwithstanding, if CBS had promptly retracted the story, with Mary and Dan offering an apology to their viewers (if not to the President), they might both have jobs today. Their reaction to the story became the story; their reflexive defensiveness metathesized to devour them

The simple fact is that because of their institutional biases these supposed exemplars of the skeptical, world-wise, thoroughgoing press were had by a crude and artless hoax, that the average middle school teacher would have seen through.

There's no need to posit a vast conspiracy, Buckhead simply subjected the documents to the same healthy skepticism that an Eighth Grade teacher would have applied to a student's claim of losing a third grandmother.

Mary exhibited a very natural tendency to accept information that conformed to her desires and preconceived notions and reject information at variance. Whole industries are based on this particular human frailty. We are all susceptible to this temptation. Part of the process of maturation is learning to distinguish between wishful thinking and external reality. Healthy institutions learn to do this, to adapt. Those that do not are called, inter alia, CBS.