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WASHINGTON -- The exposure of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as a hoaxster boasting of a nonexistent record of service in the Vietnam War is a splendid example of what is known as the Taranto Principle. Someday the Taranto Principle will be taught in all the journalism schools, assuming one or two survive the present detumescence of journalism. Formulated by the inimitable Wall Street Journal editorialist James Taranto, the principle posits that when the liberal mainstream press indulges a liberal politician's deceits or fails to hold the politician accountable for his misbehavior, it encourages the politician to ascend to a...
The Taranto Principle Vindicated Again
A person might pick up a rock, a limb from a tree, might spit, yell obscenity, scream, etc.
Pick up dog feces and throw it at a group of VN vets? No way!
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How do you know? Kids have been throwing bags of dog sh1t forever. What makes you think some Viet Cong sympathizers wouldn't have done that?