Because it is part of a broad and deliberate amnesia, like the misleading assertion by Sarah Palin that the founders were antislavery and the skipping of the "three-fifths" clause during a Republican reading of the Constitution on the House floor.
The jury, deliberating for one day, rejected the assertion by the defendant, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, that he had been entrapped and induced into a terrorist act by F.B.I. agents posing as radical Islamic militants.
Half of the voting public thinks the dossier was deliberately embellished; another quarter declares itself uncertain; and only the remaining 24% believes Mr Campbell's assertions that there was no deliberate embellishment of the case at all.
Immediately after the attack, many Chinese officials and news reports described the strike as deliberate, but Mr. Zhu did not repeat that assertion today.
As with Eleusis, however, this was deliberate exploitation of religion for the purposes of political assertion.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' assertion, on Fox News Sunday, of all deliberate places, that there will be a health-care bill passed this week is a declaration of brute political force and pure fuck you, no-accommodation certainty.
To Republican assertions that there was not enough time to deliberate, he noted that American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq did not take the holidays off.
During the course of their testimony, Diamond and Silk repeated their unfounded assertions that Facebook targeted their content as a deliberate act of political censorship.
Carl Cannon, executive editor and Washington Bureau chief for RealClearPolitics identifies the following categories or reasons for "fake news": partisan animus, deliberate hoaxes; reporters' hoaxes; unwittingly repeating the lies of others; and, not fact-checking assertions.
