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Partisan Organizations Use Sound Bites to Discredit Public Figures

Mike Huckabee's remarks about Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy weren't incendiary—until Eric Hananoki got his hands on them and found just the right snippet to get the media fired up. Howard Kurtz on how partisan groups are deploying sound bites to discredit public figures.

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Mike Huckabee complains that news outlets "take at face value a breathless blog post from a highly partisan and distorted source like Media Matters and treat it as a 'source.' Then it's electronically photocopied by what used to be legitimate jour

Mike Huckabee, whose nonstop book-flacking is keeping him on the political radar, was doing a routine radio interview when the talk briefly turned to Natalie

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