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Your words "it was being investigated before the media brouhaha erupted."

How could you possibly now say it is press created?

If you want to say it was exaggerated, thats fine. But 'created'
by the media, it was not.

"At this point I hope you realize I did not back you up, man."

By the way, that was sarcasm. Something less funny when you have to explain it as such.
But I assume you already know that.

[cyncooper]

How could you possibly now say it is press created?

If you want to say it was exaggerated, thats fine. But 'created' by the media, it was not.

I hope you can distinguish between the original fact based story and the circus that ensued once the pictures were given to the press.

It was more than "exaggerated". Try outright misrepresented and presented in a false light.

The story was whipped up and stirred up and presented as something it was not.