\u201cFOX News has almost entirely jumped the shark,\u201d said Michael Hayden, the CIA director under George W. Bush. \u201cThey have given up any semblance of conservatism and focused on an almost visceral hatred of all things Clinton and Obama.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ouch: \u201cSean Hannity has entered the pantheon of a true propagandist. His behavior reminds me of a conversation I had with a [Soviet] political officer in the mid-1980s when I was an air attach\u00e9 to Bulgaria. I asked this officer what truth was to him. He responded without hesitation, \u2018Truth is what serves the party.\u2019\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-97784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lies-and-the-lying-liars-who-tell-them"],"yoast_head":"\n
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