No. 5 ought to be
“Reinforce every paranoid, underdog and outsider inclination that they have in order to keep them *divided* paranoid underdog outsiders.”
So, this author says that Kristol made a statement to him and implies that there’s some huge conspiracy. You take that as Truth and some mark against Governor Perry?
Are we supposed to believe the lamestream media - in an on-line junk site pretending to be the Atlantic, a leftist propaganda site - in certain special cases? They can ask “when did you stop beating your wife?” They can imply that a third - or is it fourth? - party is part of a conspiracy that only a few insiders know, but now they’re telling the world? Did the author suddenly get religion or take an honesty pill?
A Tennessee jury took Clarence Darrow and some remark about a monkey. Darrow didn't have surveillance footage of the deed, though.
Someone brought General McClellan a twist of cigars wrapped in a piece of notepaper. He risked several corps on the proposition that what was on the paper was true, and was fired a few days later by President Lincoln because he didn't risk enough.
Sometimes something somebody tells you is true. Evaluate it.
Probably not, but in vino veritas. Happens to the best of them.
Someone said something once about another man's wife. The husband demanded to know if it was true, and, having survived the workout meeting with a pistol-ball in him, went on to become the seventh President of the United States. That was Andrew Jackson. Must not have been true.
In Alexander Hamilton's case, however, the truth apparently caught up to him.
“Are we supposed to believe the lamestream media - in an on-line junk site pretending to be the Atlantic, a leftist propaganda site - in certain special cases?”
Some people have been known to lift material from the Southern Poverty Law Center when it suits their aganda.