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Update on Hinchey-foil scandal: bloggers piling on, MSM silent
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 2005-02-21 |
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