[Slings and Arrows]

Please understand that the posters on this topic have raised two red flags:

1. You claim to have a smoking-gun story, but not the hard evidence to back it up.

2. We have an influx of newbies first-posting the same story.

Both of the above signs are possible (albeit not conclusive) indicators of a troll attack. That you the original poster haven't been ZOTted means that you are being given the benefit of the doubt.

As far as the first point goes, there's a very easy way to lower that flag: Show us the paper.

On the second point, if this is an organized effort to flood FR, then it's spamming, it's rude, it's a TOS violation, it wastes FR's bandwidth, and it clutters up an already busy forum. In this case, the content is irrelevant - if the Messiah arrived in Jerusalem, we still wouldn't want to be spammed with vanities and teasers about it. In any case, all newbies should read the posting guidelines before posting - especially the parts about not posting an already-posted story.

[Nov3]

This is a new story. Read the link I posted above.

[quidnunc]

Dont get your Daisy Dukes all in a bunch.

There's a companion thread by TheRealNavyChief that says approximately the same thing.

TRNC has worked with Thomas Loipscomb on at least a couple of articles which Lipscomb had poublished in the NY Sun and other places.

If you want more evidence of TRNC's bona fides go to the Beldar Blog.