Don't Discredit the Argument

Discredit the source. Linda Douglass, formerly an ABC News correspondent and now a White House official, says the following about the Breitbart/Drudge tagteam on Obama's past statements:

“So what happens is that because he’s talking to the American people so much, there are people out there with a computer and a lot of free time, and they take a phrase here and there — they simply cherry-pick and put it together, and make it sound like he’s saying something that he didn’t really say.”