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I'm glad you agree--now stop saying it was a consipiracy.

All that was said was that conservative sources had pumped disinformation into the spin-cycle, and the mainstream press took off with it. That's a testament to the conservative media sector's power to disseminate information, truthful or not.

Accusations of any kind of conspiracy were your words, not mine, superbelt's, or HR's.

Media stories don't sprout out of this air--someone reports them. In this case, someone reported false information and it eventually made it into mainstream media, which superbelt, HR, and myself have repeatedly asserted is corporate controlled moreso than "right" or "left" in ideology.

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