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#182793 02/20/2009 11:51 PM
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I remember listening to Bob Novak on the now defunct CNN Crossfire show. He used the word "canard" quite a few times, and he used it with such vehemence, it was almost comical. I found this quote on the Web. He was talking about his involvement in the Valarie Plame matter. http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/te...issed_40185.asp

MR. HUNT: You also said this wasn't a concerted campaign and yet they did talk to, besides you, a number of other media outlets about Valerie Plame - the White House.

MR. NOVAK: I don't know how many they really did talk to. There was a lot of stories out that they fed this story to six people and they finally came to me, which was really a canard. I know that nobody ever sought me out and said, gee, we've have got a hell of a story of Valerie Plame. This came out in the course with my source, who later, through a third party, said it was inadvertently that he brought her name up. And then the other people that I checked out with, Karl Rove and the then-CIA-spokesman, Bill Harlow, I made the phone calls to.

rs09 #182806 02/21/2009 11:55 AM
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Welcome rs09. As you present your post as a Re:, I suppose you may have meant to post it in the already present canard thread:
canard

Never mind, if someone will have a comment on this one it'll come. It's funny that such an all French word seems to take such a go. Can't see 'canard ' without thinking 'canaille'.
canaille

BranShea #182809 02/21/2009 12:40 PM
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Oh, thanks for the tip. And thanks for a new vocabulary word!


Originally Posted By: BranShea
Welcome rs09. As you present your post as a Re:, I suppose you may have meant to post it in the already present canard thread:
canard

Never mind, if someone will have a comment on this one it'll come. It's funny that such an all French word seems to take such a go. Can't see 'canard ' without thinking 'canaille'.
canaille

BranShea #182813 02/21/2009 4:12 PM
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Originally Posted By: BranShea
Welcome rs09. As you present your post as a Re:, I suppose you may have meant to post it in the already present canard thread:
canard

Never mind, if someone will have a comment on this one it'll come. It's funny that such an all French word seems to take such a go. Can't see 'canard ' without thinking 'canaille'.
canaille


Always on the ball, Bran.
Yes thank you for the new word.


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