Rosenblatt on Huffington Post

Alan Rosenblatt has an informative piece up on the Huffington Post, Facts and Lies About Lowering Oil Prices.

I was going to say something smart about Rosenblatt’s cogent analysis of the roots of the lies that are “informing” American’s perceptions on how to resolve the oil crisis, but then I got distracted by Andy Borowitz’s hilarious “report,” McCain Makes Historic First Visit to Internet.

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But with his Democratic rival Barack Obama making headlines with his tour of the Middle East and Europe, the McCain campaign felt that they needed to “come up with something equally bold for John to do,” according to one advisor.

McCain aides said that the senator’s journey to the Internet will span five days and will take him to such far-flung sites as Amazon.com, eBay and Facebook.

With a press retinue watching, Sen. McCain logged onto the Internet at 9:00 AM Sunday, paying his first-ever visit ever to Mapquest.com.

“I can’t get this [expletive] thing to work,” Sen. McCain said as he struggled with his computer’s mouse, causing his wife Cindy to prompt him to add that he was “just kidding.”

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[read the whole thing]

Quite seriously, I found Rosenblatt’s link to the analysis of the lies around hurricane-induced spills in the Gulf at Think Progress particularly useful, because I just couldn’t believe it when I saw how widely that was suddenly being repeated, and repeated with such conviction.