Stephen Spruiell over at National Review has an interesting article involving the Washington Post and Free Republic.com :Posted on 11/08/2005 2:54:01 PM PST by Quaker
Stephen Spruiell over at National Review has an interesting article involving the Washington Post and Free Republic.com :
Earlier this year a mysterious source turned over some e-mails to a Washington Post reporter. The e-mails seemed to indicate that a man with ties to the Republican governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich, was spreading rumors about the governor's chief political rival on Free Republic.com. The Post wrote a series of articles about the e-mails and the man — a state employee named Joseph Steffen — resigned and apologized to the governor.
The Post didn't do any reporting on the source of the e-mails — someone only identified by the Free Republic screen name "MD4Bush" — but it was apparent from the nature of the e-mails that MD4Bush had entered FreeRepublic.com with the intention of engaging Steffen in a conversation about the rumors, leading him into making damaging statements in private e-mails or "Freepmails," and then turning those e-mails over to the Post.....
Free Republic is great conservative website. I check the site at least twice a day for news. I have been a "Freeper" 7 years.
Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for the info.
The one thing I haven't yet been able to wrap my head around - how did MD4Bush know that Steffen was a freeper to start with? Was Steffen's freeper nic public knowledge?
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