<![CDATA[Wagging the Dog With Fannie Mae: Republicans Explain the Financial Crisis With Racist Mythology]]>

1.0 link 133388 <![CDATA[Wagging the Dog With Fannie Mae: Republicans Explain the Financial Crisis With Racist Mythology]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/wagging-the-dog-with-fann_b_133388.html "Is this video a lie?" wrote someone in response to my last piece on HuffPost. No, "lie" is an inadequate description. I uploaded the video link, seen by two million people before me, and gasped at the artful perversion of history. It was like a post-millennium version of The Birth of a Nation. In that silent film classic, a pivotal scene is prefaced by the title card:

"AN HISTORICAL FACSIMILE of the State House of Representatives of South...

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