Fact-checking Zell Miller *

By Kevin Roderick | September 2, 2004 11:32 AM

Joseph Mailander writes that his anti-Bush blog Martini Republic is getting lots of links and traffic today for reporting that Zell Miller's speech at the Republic convention drew heavily on an anti-Kerry chain email debunked by the urban legends site Snopes.com.

* In turn: Xrlq debunks the debunkers, or is it the debunkees. Heads up from Patterico.


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