Although I'm sure they'll claim again it was just a very enthusiastic "wedding party," in which the bride and groom exchange the ceremonial improvised explosive devices.

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Is this something? I don't know. I'm not sure it's anything.

Now that I think about it, it seems to be nothing. Forget I said anything. Read the Star Spangled Banner post below.

Thanks to Brich.

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..in tearjerkers.

Just a story about a picnic, really.

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And a college newspaper has been publishing these phoney tearjerkers for two years.

Without actually verifying these letters were legit, or that the little girl actually existed. A woman posing as the "girl's" "aunt" delivered the letters to the paper... but no one asked to see the girl.

They were also pondering how it was that the girl and the woman [posing as the "girl's" aunt] became so close to newspaper staff members that no one thought to check out their story - even after the woman once showed up in the newsroom claiming to be not herself, but a twin sister.

"Looking back on it now, it makes so much sense. I don't know how I could have been such an idiot," said Michael Brenner, the former Daily Egyptian reporter who first wrote about Kodee, and then spent two years staying in contact as a close friend of her and her purported aunt and guardian, who said her name was Colleen Hastings.

I know how it happened. As usual, it was a story you wanted to believe.

Sign them up for the MSM, post-haste. They've got the chops. Run with an emotional anti-Republican, anti-war story without checking facts -- even when the woman posing as the "aunt" shows up pretending to be a "twin sister" -- and then just confess to a vague breakdown in the process of multiple layers of painstaking editorial fact-checking.

And then make sure you say, "Well, we get 90% of these right."

Via Tim Blair.

Thanks to Matt.

Posted by: Ace at 03:18 PM | Comments (50)
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Pretty cool.

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What a shock.

I talk about media bias so much it makes me bored. But here we go again.

The media never believes that a protest against liberals is "authentic." Take the Swift Boaters, for example-- they were determined to prove that the Swift Vets were essentially bought and paid for by the Republican Party.

They never seem to question where the left's protestors and malcontents are getting their money from.

Although this piece is a nice step in that direction.

It's ABCNews, but it's a local affiliate doing the actual reportage. I don't know if the actual ABCNews national team would lower themselves to cover such an obvious non-story.

Kind of similar with Robert Torricelli -- it was the local NY affiliate of NBC News (I believe) that broke the story, while the Times and the other national media studiously ignored it.

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I haven't thought he was this cool since he donned an all-leather suit and crooned Judas Priest:

Music legend Pat Boone is blasting the peace message of Cindy Sheehan and other anti-war activists, claiming their rhetoric is making the U.S. more vulnerable to future terrorist attacks.

"This lady and the groups that have been demonstrating in front of the president's ranch in Crawford and following him around are the very same people that were the dropout, turn-on, anti-war peace activists back [in the Vietnam War era]," Boone said. "They still have this crazy notion that by just being peaceful and maybe toking up or something like that – it's like an ostrich with its head in the sand – maybe the danger and the bad guys will go away and leave you alone, which is not gonna happen."

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Not really.

Thanks to Dave.

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Crazy loves company.

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Remember all those media stories about the armed forces missing their recruitment goals? A true objective neutral balance would suggest that they be required to follow-up and note that recruitment goals are now being exceeded.

Oddly enough, only conservative leaning papers like the Boston Herald seem to be giving the story any attention.

Go figure.

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