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From Right-Wing Tabloid Press to Righty Blogs to ABC News -- in twelve hours...

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Submitted by tom on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 6:33pm
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Wow. It appears that this aptly-named "fish story" went straight from the tabloid right-wing press in Australia to right-wing blogs to ABC News in about 12 hours.

A google search demonstrates that all of the major righty blogs, including Insty (which was probably Tapper's source really), pushed this story today.

Ah, that liberal media, huh? Stenographers for the righty bloggers now, huh?

Impressive. Very impressive.

You've fallen far indeed now, Mr. Tapper. Far indeed.

UPDATE And someone at the ABC News website continues to delete the vast majority of the comments that are critical of Tapper or ABC News for running this tripe. Yet they leave all of the anti-Gore comments up on the site.

They really are in the bag for righty bloggers now, aren't they?

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Submitted by tom on

It's funny that Tapper cites People as his source. It's so transparently not from People. If you follow the link they say nothing about this.

However, the spin and the entire post's wording comes straight from the righty blogs. What a fraud!

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Submitted by lambert on

This guy really needs a nickname. "Kneepads," however, is already taken...

No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.

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I thought this story in Wednesday's Fluffya InkWire was just a load of silliness as I hadn't heard it reported anywhere...until you posted this, Tom. See any similarities here?:

Air Force Senior Airman Jonathan Schrieken was casually unpacking his car in front of his Willingboro house on the evening of July 4. A moment later, he was fighting for his life.
Out of nowhere, an attacker leveled a handgun at him and fired point blank into his chest, before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life.

What motivated 22-year-old Matthew Marren of Pennsauken to open fire is unclear.

But the Internet furor stirred by the shooting has been unmistakable. The incident quickly became a cause celebre, fanned by a host of conservative and military bloggers across the country as well as national columnist Michelle Malkin, who claimed that Schrieken had been targeted by an antiwar zealot.

"I've watched the blogs," said Willingboro police spokesman Joe Dey. "It picked up fire."

Within days of the incident, cyberspace was burning with criticism of the media for underplaying the story and failing to report the reason for the shooting.

Upshot of this rather long piece is that there is no indication whatsoever that the shooter (a) had any knowledge that the victim was even in the military (b) was anything other than a sorry individual with mental health problems and possibly drug issues (toxicology reports are not back yet.)

The scenario is hauntingly familiar: Malkin starts it out, O'Liely picks it up and runs, and "the media", being controlled by the "antiwar leftists", proves its wickeness by refusing to report....shit that didn't happen.

Why ABC dropped the ball on this one is the only curious thing about it. They could have done an "it would be irresponsible not to speculate and inflame the matter" story just as they did with the Fish Tale.

Possibly the fact that the standards are lower on celebrity gossip than on something subject to actual police reports, scientific findings, etc., might have had something to do with it.

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Submitted by lambert on

We WASPs don't do that intimacy thing at all.

IFF you are a registered user, ie, you have logged in, THEN if you create your list of moonbats by clicking on their posts, THEN a list of your moonbats newest posts will show up on the sidebar.

No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.

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