Boviosity!

Anybody besides me utterly unsurprised that the Jessica Lynch movie & book are bringing the old discredited lies about her capture and rescue out of the woodwork? I should have predicted it back then: these stories might have lost some of their luster at the time they were discredited, but that's no reason to believe they wouldn't have been dusted off for future consumption, like now.

I think a game of Long-Discredited Lie Bingo is in order. Especially during the run-up to the Election '04, there's no downside for these folks to bring up things they know to be false, as long as it will hurt the other side. But it might be fun to point and laugh.

Any ideas on how to counter this tactic? And that's exactly what it is: a tactic. They're relying on the fact that, once asserted with just a few words, it takes many, many more words to rebut the lies. And by that time, their target audience has lost interest.