sirius radio, dean abdallah. and so let s go to the president s son who liked the tweets about hogg and does it alarm you when people of prominent parties give credence to the lies. well, it is malicious or igno ignorance and either way, inexcusable. we have to be very diligent about this. we have to be, you know, i think it is incumbent upon all of us now to be skeptical of the things that we see. i would hope that the trump, that the president s son was not intentionally trying to advance this, you know, scurrilous rumor, but we have to be much better consumers of news. because it is so easy now for people to manipulate information and to put it out there and easier than it used to be. yeah, no doubt. and dean, it has been extraordinary to watch how these student survivors have been reacted to being a accused of
facts and fiction, we re joined by ron reagan, the author of my father at 100. ron, we ll start with this piece of misinformation from michele bachmann. it was a gop debate in tampa back in december. you ll remember she criticized rick perry for ordering the vaccination of young schoolgirls in texas to guard against hpv. then the next morning, she was asked about it and repeated what she was told by a woman the night before. here it is. i had a mother last night come up to me, here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. i thought the worst part about it was repeating such a scurrilous rumor. yeah, the irresponsibility of that. there are many children, of course, that get vaccines for all sorts of things. i know that this is a source of contention for some people, but
they have a few ideas. they crowned their lie of the year today. we ll get to that in a moment. but first, let s take a look at some of the other finalist, the lowlights, if you will. and to help us sift through the facts and fiction, we re joined by ron reagan, the author of my father at 100. ron, we ll start with this piece of misinformation from michele bachmann. it was a gop debate in tampa back in september. you ll remember she criticized rick perry for ordering the vaccination of young schoolgirls in texas to guard against hpv. then the next morning, she was asked about it and repeated what she was told by a woman the night before. here it is. i had a mother last night come up to me, here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. i thought the worst part about it was repeating such a scurrilous rumor. yeah, the irresponsibility of that. there
but first, let s take a look at some of the other finalist, the lowlights, if you will. and to help us sift through the facts and fiction, we re joined by ron reagan, the author of my father at 100. ron, we ll start with this piece of misinformation from michele bachmann. it was a gop debate in tampa back in december. you ll remember she criticized rick perry for ordering the vaccination of young schoolgirls in texas to guard against hpv. then the next morning, she was asked about it and repeated what she was told by a woman the night before. here it is. i had a mother last night come up to me, here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. i thought the worst part about it was repeating such a scurrilous rumor. yeah, the irresponsibility of that. there are many children, of course, that get vaccines for all sorts of things. i know that this is a s