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I think sources are legit, you can check em if you dont belive them. It's not that hard. Plus some of the more partisan sites do have stuff. If it wasnt for the executive privlege, none of the major sites talked about fast and furious, but it still did exist.
Depends on the 'source'. I dismiss almost all media outlets as 'sources', unless they have links to verify the information.
Great example is the recent plethora of left wingers using a variety of 'sources' to highlight results of surveys undertaken originally by Bloomberg. They linked back to Bloomberg.. but, on investigation of those surveys, it turned out that one survey was 1,002 respondents (with no detail on their political affiliation, likely voter status, age, race, etc)... the other was 734 respondents (again with no parameters). Now, that may be 'legitimate' in the land of the whack-job... but 1,002 respondents is not an academically sound survey. It made the posters promoting those claims look even more ridiculous than they usually do.
Check your sources.