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With PMSNBC's serial misreporter David Shuster freshly on ice, this prescient Tom Maguire post now serves as an entertaining and informative lesson on typical leftwing MSM propaganda ops:

So often I find myself asking - is it true, or is that a report from David Shuster? In the brutally competitive world of television news David Shuster of NBC has hit upon a winning formula - make stuff up that appeals to his left wing audience. Below I have highlighted five dubious reports, all related to the Plame case and all slanted against Bush and Cheney. In multiple misadventures with Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews Mr. Shuster has

(1) edited away a key qualifier to make it appear that Cheney authorized the Plame leak;

(2) misrepresented the contents of a the publicly-available portion of a National Intelligence Estimate;

(3) walked out of a courtroom with "news" everyone else missed, attributing to the Libby defense announcements made by the prosecution (and later clarified);

(4) aired an "exclusive" originally broken by Raw Story but confirmed by no one else; and

(5) again walked out of a courtroom with "news" everyone else missed, turning a Fitzgerald metaphor into a literal charge.

Here we go:

The ensuing is the kind of exposé that leftists try to avoid absorbing at any cost. The sudden realization they've been duped by cheap frauds like Shuster, Olbermann and Droolboy causes severe cognitive dissonance, an inevitable result of that horrible moment when they eschew intellectual rigor and just roll over and believe these guys. It's liars like Shuster, Olbermann and Droolboy who make re-educating idiots so difficult, so it's doubly, nay triply important for the efforts of responsible scribes like Maguire to be as widely available as possible.

As usual, I provide this service as an act of compassion to dupes everywhere.