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[link to it] 7Nov03 : weird justification of propaganda using libraries
I just finished Al Franken's book so I have been getting a bit more savvy about how to interpret media statements by the right wing, but this one ropes librarians in. Regarding the name of the new bill curtailing abortion -- the Partial Birth Abortion Bill -- conservatives defended it saying "National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine both list online in their dictionaries the term partial birth abortion and define it as it's been defined by the government in this legislation." Of course the link to a dictionary I found on the NLM site just leads us right back to Merriam-Webster....
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