Reply #4: Make them come to you with their "proof" [View All]

Did the guy show you the magazine? or the paper?

The Saudi flight thing has been beat to death...

The US did give Afghanistan $43 m in "aid" prior to 2001...

How is TIME a liberal magazine? Owned by AOL-Time Warner (yeah, a real bunch of lefties there). Even in the old days, I don't think one can describe the Luce family as liberals.

The first response I give to most of these "accusations" is "what is your source?" "Prove it", etc.

Going after the writer's credibility is one approach, although TIME has tradtionally been an "editor's" mag as opposed to Sports Illustrated, which was more of a "writer's" mag (but the writing has become so insipid I cancelled by sub after 20 years)