The MSM needs to be kept in check when they lie, mislead, and smear as they often do. Yet, those who present themselves as keeping the MSM honest keep failing miserably at the task. This paragraph (an interior paragraph of a much longer post) is just one illustration of that. The idea that this story will just blow over if it's proved wrong is absurd. The WaPo could retract the whole story tomorrow and there'd still be large numbers of people who'd keep repeating it like it was true and large numbers of people who'd keep believing it. And, the GOP/teaparty/conservative hacks who pretend that they keep the MSM honest have no plan to deal with any of that. They aren't willing or able to take effective steps now to reduce the spread of the story. They aren't willing or able to reduce the spread of future smears. Not only that, but they aren't willing to help those who are able. We need a strong opposition to the MSM lying and misleading, but GOP/teaparty/conservative hacks aren't up to the task.