Tuesday, December 22, 2015

ONLY A  YO-YO  WOULD  ACCUSE  CFACT OF FACT-CHECKING

Marc Morano  recently upstaged Donald Trump on Fox News by re-spinning the ISIS climate connection:
In 1933 the government of Syria banned the  yo-yo, because they  thought  yo-yos  cause  draught, and  now they want to ban  coal plants  and  SUV's.
The source? The Damascus Daily? The Beirut Star? The Jerusalem Post ?  The National Enquirer?  How about that great Broken Hill, New South Wales newspaper of record:

Here's the sadly duller Times of London lede on which the tale was based: