Dana Milbank starts his piece off with “[Arizona Governor] Jan Brewer has lost her head.” (Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona, Washington Post, 07/11/10) He then goes on to report in a very factual way on how this baseless assertion was actually looked into and found to be without any support, and the head bit is found to be only one in a list of lies told by the likes of Brewer and, yes, John McCain (he who thought Palin would make a good Vice President).

The only problem with Milbank’s story being that it was not on the front page where it belongs but placed in the opeds with the ‘he said, she said’ stuff.

Obviously the Republican lie machine needn’t worry when evidence based stories exposing their outrageous and dangerous to all of us bullshit is simple opinion while their lies are reported in the “factual” section of the papers.

It worked that way with Iraqi WMD … remember? And when the radical right wing in congress made up lies about ACORN all sorts of Democrats – especially our own weasel peter welch – jumped on the liars bandwagon.

It would certainly help if the papers would start a liars section. The claims by Brewer, McCain or weasel peter welch could go right after the opeds, and then all their crap could be relegated to a heading under which that crap belongs.

And stories like Milbank’s could be moved from the opinions section into the factual area where it belongs.

Then maybe the likes of weasel peter welch and McCain and Brewer wouldn’t be able to spread their lies so easily.

PS. Still waiting on weasel peter welch to apologize to all those hard working folks who associated themselves with ACORN. After all the weasel peter welch went out of his way to join his radical right wing buddies in congress and viciously attack ACORN based entirely on lies.