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"This may be a Hoax, but there is a band called Charnal House and you can find discussions about them in "Groups" when you do a Google search there."

I did do that search. I turned up a few messages about a Charnal House music label, but none about any band named Charnal House.

Apparently such band does not exist, since metal bands have active discussions going all the time.

I also could not find any reference to Artaud Productions, purportedly the source link for this article. Clicking on the link takes to you to Pipeline. There was a link to the original story there, but it is now broken.

This is a pure hoax. In the first place, no political candidate would link its campaign to such a musical group. In the second place, I've not seen any "metal" band endorsing anyone, Dem or GOP. It's not in their nature, you see.

My concern is that this story will get wide circulation in email forwarding, all leading back to FR as the source of the story. This harms FR, in my opinion.

Hoaxes, posted without some indication that they are hoaxes, are a poor idea, again in my opinion.

I forgot to mention one thing, the spelling of the bands name in the article is wrong and I did NOT idicate that I checked both spellings before I found all the posts in the newsgroups. I had read a lot of the stuff, before I posted, and forgot to mention the spelling issue. Google indicates the second spelling when one does the search

The Band's name is Charnel House, not Charnal House.

Here is a google group search of the band with the right spelling.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Charnel+House+Band&btnG=Google+Search

The rest of what I wrote, agrees (mostly) with what you said...what I said was ANYONE can come out in support of ANYONE's political campaign -- and -- it means NOTHING unless it is acknowledged and welcome by that campaign. With these people, their endorsement could hurt Dean more than help!

I went back and checked the google web (as opposed to groups)search with the right spelling and there is a lot there too.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Charnel+House+Band&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gw