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Bird’s Gotta Fly
“It’s not just that it is the chief global distributor of
unfact and untruth but that it distributes unfact and untruth with a bluster,
an arrogance, a gonad-grabbing swagger, that implicitly and intentionally dares you to believe
fact and truth matter.
“Many of us have gotten used to this. We don’t even bother to protest Fox being Fox. Might as well protest a sewer for stinking.”
“Many of us have gotten used to this. We don’t even bother to protest Fox being Fox. Might as well protest a sewer for stinking.”
—Leonard Pitts, syndicated columnist, “Why serious people discount Fox News,” The Miami Herald, 2015.
• Editorial Comment: Be all that you can be.
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you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
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