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b_b · 3744 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Fox News and right wing media created the lie that Michael Brown smashed police officer Darren Wilson's eye socket.
There isn't a person in the world who was paying close attention who didn't know they were lying. The real question marks were to what extent they were lying and what their actual policy objectives were. The answers seemed obvious to most of us liberal minded folks at the time: A LOT and OIL. Turns out we were right, which was sad given that their policy objective failed so miserably that the reason for us being there became obscured in favor of something like "providing security for Iraq," a self-made problem. The real irony here is that Al Qaeda wasn't there until we invited them in.