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| Update on Hinchey-foil scandal: bloggers piling on, MSM silent |
| 2005-02-21 |
| Yesterday, Little Green Footballs broke the story of Congressman Maurice Hinchey's (D-Havana) statement to a Cornell University audience that the CBS TANG memoes were most likely planted by Karl Rove. One of LGF's operatives recorded the statement and challenged Hinchey on it, only to be told essentially that facts were not as important in determining the truth as Hinchey's own beliefs. The initial LGF story included a full transcript of Hinchey's conspiracist remarks. Since then, LGF has run 3 more strings on the story, #2 #3 #4 and a number of other other blogs have picked it up. Several legacy media outlets, mostly local idiotarian rags in the Ithaca area, have reported on Hinchey's speech but not one mentioned his lengthy descent into tin-foil hattery or the exchange with the audience member/LGF operative. National legacy media have not mentioned Hinchey at all in recent days. BTW, Google News Index excludes LGF on the grounds that it is a news "aggregator" rather than an originator of content. Yet, LGF routinely publishes original and significant news stories from various operatives and has broken several important stories. Besides the CBS-Word matchup and Hinchey-foil, they were also first with the interception of Air France flight 68 on the last day of 2003, reporting the story before the plane landed (thanks to some amateur elint work by an operative). |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #7 It's starting to break now. Brit Hume featured it on his Fox show this evening and Charles of LGF was interviewed on MSNBC. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-02-21 7:38:03 PM |
| #6 The ShipLord coininth another one. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-02-21 3:55:07 PM |
| #5 Frisco! I am going to Frisco! Faggy Froco Frisco! The bay area needs to be excised from California just like LA. As a news aggragator it's self Google is useless. I expect all Bay area based companys and internet sites to have obvious left or left fringe bias. If anyone doesn't you should not be surprised. It is after all where many of our least liked Democrats come from in this state and even in the nation. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-21 3:30:08 PM |
| #4 You are correct Mrs Davis -- Frisco Frisco Frisco Nyahh Nyahh Nyahh-Nyahh-Nyahh |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-21 3:21:36 PM |
| #3 If you think they don't like S. F. try Frisco. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-02-21 3:12:08 PM |
| #2 Buy Blue - Google Hat Tip Al Rantel - Last week Mr Rantel had the organizer of this website on his show and played him like a fiddle getting a lot of info out of him. The webmaster is a Lefty Dem from S.F. (They hate to be called S.F.) He runs the site to aid Dems in thier purchases, but careful screening can make the site useful in the other way. As to my link: Google is a 100% BLUE (EXTREME DEM) Organization. They don't want to give Charles Johnson, LGF any due they don't have to. Remember, LGF started the sinking of Danny Boy and the CBS gang!... Don't tell me they can't manipulate the database to their own ends... We all know different... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-02-21 3:09:40 PM |
| #1 Another congressional conspiracy theorist, former Rep Cynthia McKinney, is an honorary professor at Cornell, along with the arch-druid of the Hate-America cult, Australian goebbelist *spit* John Pilger *spit*. I believe this is an important story, as much for the calculated stonewalling of the legacy media as for the sheer lunacy of Hinchey's remarks to a friendly audience in LLL territory. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-02-21 3:02:50 PM |