WaPo uncritically reported Huckabee's BS that in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS spread

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200712090005?f=h_latest

Wash. Post uncritically reported Huckabee's false claim that "in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS was spread"

Summary: Writing about reports that Mike Huckabee had suggested quarantining people with AIDS in 1992, Washington Post staff writer Perry Bacon Jr. uncritically reported: "As Huckabee's response to a questionnaire on AIDS began to circulate yesterday, his campaign issued a statement from him noting that in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS was spread." But an Associated Press article reported that "{w}hen Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact."

[hvn_nbr_2]

1. 4000-year-old flat earth, AIDS spread on toilet seats, torturing witches...

What else is new from the lunatic fringe?

[madrchsod]

2. in 82 maybe ...so maybe hucka was just off by ten years....

10 years... now that would seem about right for his mental ability

[Arkansas Granny]

3. No, even in Arkansas we knew how AIDS was spread well

before 1992. I had been passing that knowledge on to my kids for several years before 1992. It's very unlikely that Huckabee didn't know the facts before then.

[bemildred]

4. So Huckabee admits he sometimes becomes confused? nt