Simulacra vs. Reality; Palin on Africa
MSNBC has "withdrawn" its charges that Governor Palin did not know that Africa was a continent. The reality is that of course Governor Palin knew that Africa was not a country. The simulacra, or false reality that becomes accepted as unquestioned truth, is that she was ignorant, as are most Americans, of geography. Now that MSNBC has recanted the story, how long will it take for the notion of Palin's geographical ignorance to dissipate in the minds of Americans?
Better read that article again because it says nothing like what you say it does. Here is a paragraph from the article you seem to have skipped:
"The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin _ not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony."
Even today Fox is maintaining their sources were clear about the original story. This MSNBC retraction is not what you think it is.
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