[JLS]

Thanks. Within the last couple of hours I freepmailed Howlin looking for a sysnopsis of this. I followed some of it at the beginning and have seen posts from time to time, but before reading this there were too many gaps for me to understant. Thanks again.

[conservative in nyc]

There's a lot more. This thing is long enough, but could be longer. I didn't put a statement in there that the O'Malley rumors weren't just or first spread here. IIRC, they were on DU, a website called dcrtv.com, on USENET, on the Baltimore Sun's own website. Yet the Washington Post singled FR out.