Here's how, Rig.

The linchpin of this country is the self-determined choice by free men and women based on educated viewpoints and te best information available to make right decisions.

That's the Jeffersonian ideal, IMHO, and that is the only way democratic processes can work.

If you pollute the wellsprings of that porcess by injecting false information --- even in an underhanded pretense of no-responsibility for others' misinformation -- you are essentially betraying the process.

Saying "this is what people are saying" is no cover for your own willingness to forward bum information, polluting the cognosphere of the democracy and thus distorting its operation.

This is why Crossfire and Fox News are treasonous--not because they say things I disagree with, but because they promote untruth, fear, uncertainty, doubt, and distortions of the world. Why would a man of rationality or conscience wish to aid and abet such treason?


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