Huh?

Fox “News” accidentally reveals a secret from J .D. Hayworth’s past.

Fox “News” is inspired by the journalism of Wooddward and Bernnstein.

See also:

• 193%
• Geographically Challenged
• Fox “News” Shenanigans
• I sense a pattern here…

Mooninites attack Boston!

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2. CIA: HOW MANY SPIES HAS THE POLYGRAPH EXPOSED?

According to a CBS News account of the suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan, “The double agent was brought onto the base without first being given a polygraph test, one of the basic tools in establishing a spy’s trustworthiness.” Really? Aldrich Ames, the master Soviet spy who was a high-ranking CIA analyst, routinely passed polygraph exams, even as he passed information to the Soviets. Nor did the polygraph expose Larry Wu- Tai Chin a Chinese language translator working for the CIA who sold information to China, or Robert Hanssen of the FBI. In fact, not a single spy has been caught by a polygraph screening exam. In 2003 the National Academy of Science issued a report, “The Polygraph and Lie Detection,” that found the majority of polygraph research to be unreliable, unscientific and biased. The high rate of false positives was considered unacceptable. I have argued, however, that the small number of true positives is the real problem. I propose replacing the polygraph with a coin toss. That would identify 50 percent of the double agents compared to zero with the polygraph. The unfortunate increase in false positives constitutes collateral damage, which is inevitable in war.

3. BABY GABRIEL: THE REALITY OF LIE DETECTION IN POPULAR CULTURE.

A prospective adoptive-couple have been named as “persons of interest” in the disappearance of an eight-month old baby in Arizona (Gabriel). The couple appeared on television early this week demanding a polygraph test to “determine absolutely whether we are telling the truth.” The next day the polygraph examiners announced the result: “inconclusive.” The public perception is that the polygraph is a scientific device that distinctively signals a lie. This is abetted by the media which rarely mentions the strong scientific objections to the polygraph. Devices claimed to be lie detectors are even used in television game shows (Fox of course). In fact, the polygraph looks for spikes in blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and perspiration. In other words, you can’t tell a lie from the sex act.

More:

• DOE Polygraph Program: Counter Intelligence Taken Literally
• Polygraph: Science Moved On
• Are polygraphs worthless?
• Polygraphs: but they scare the Hell out of people
• Polygraph: Green River Killer Passed a 1984 Lie Detector Test
• Polygraph Testing Less than Worthless

PAT ROBERTSON: And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.” True story. And so, the devil said, “OK, it’s a deal.”

And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It’s cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti; on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God. And out of this tragedy, I’m optimistic something good may come. But right now, we’re helping the suffering people, and the suffering is unimaginable.

KRISTI WATTS (co-host): Absolutely, Pat.

Radical cleric Pat Robertson weighs in on yet another tragedy giving it his own “special” spin. He must be truly a shit of human being to be able to put such a spin on the deaths of thousands of people.

The Haitian ambassador knows history better than radical cleric Pat Robertson.

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We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.
— Dana Perino

Post 9-11 terrorist attacks (attempted and otherwise) during the Bush administration:

• 2001 anthrax attacks
• Richard Reid’s bombing attempt on American Airlines 63 (shoe bomber)
• 2002 attack against the El Al Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport
• 2002 Beltway sniper attacks
• Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar SUV attack

I’ll leave up to the reader to decide whether those who claim there were no post 9-11 terrorist attacks in the United States during the Bush Administration are deliberately lying or simply ignorant of the facts.

For those of you keeping score at home, “Joe” the “Plumber” is not:

• really named “Joe”
• really a plumber
• a Constitutional scholar

“What [Obama] should be doing is following the right things Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” Giuliani said.

Even if Giuliani misspoke and meant since 9/11/2001, he is still lying. Let’s not forget the anthrax attacks and Richard Reid.