Washington Post Traps Itself in a Lie about MD4Bush

[Congressman Billybob]

Just keeping Newsbusters.org folks informed on the subject that Freepers are ahead of the curve on.

John / Billybob

[Bogey78O]

'MD4BUSH coaxed Steffen into revealing his role in spreading rumors about Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley'

Heh, considering from the actual emails NCPAC had no role in spreading rumors it's soooooo nice of them to give him credit.

[Buck W.]

Just keeping my scorecard accurate: Steffen is NCPAC?

[HangnJudge]

May their Beeber be forever Stooned

[Cicero]

You are right. I went through every thread in detail when this story broke, and one thing that was obvious to me is that NCPAC never spread any rumors. Other Freepers, presumably innocent third parties who happened by, mentioned the rumors, which were evidently commonplace in Baltimore and I believe had been mentioned in the media.

The whole accusation against NCPAC was a lie from beginning to end. Their agent provocateur never managed to get him to say anything damaging against the mayor.

[Bogey78O]

Yes, Steffen is the guy who a Democrat tried to coax into spreading rumors but failed. But was still fired for having talked to a guy online who tried to spread rumors.

[festus]

Sure a lot of muckety mucks running around on the freeper board.

I'll be we could ferret them out by looking at how they voted in the sidebar polls..........

[libill]

Sounds to me that the Post had a plant and acted to entrap Steffen and is another example of how low the Post is willing to go to relive it's glory days of Deep Throat.

[NonValueAdded]

And just to be crystal clear, didn't NCPAC / Steffen resign in order to stop the media storm from engulfing the governor? I thought he honorably fell on his sword rather than was fired. Google returns articles that say resigned and others that say fired. Even posts within FR are contradictory. Some even say that the governor asked for the resignation which might explain the controversy.

[woofie]

I used to be a muckety muck but I had to quit

[festus]

;-)

[conservative in nyc]

MD4Bush PING!

(Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list).

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL!

" . . . uh, what's my sign?"

[bad company]

And just to be crystal clear, didn't NCPAC / Steffen resign in order to stop the media storm from engulfing the governor? I thought he honorably fell on his sword rather than was fired. Google returns articles that say resigned and others that say fired. Even posts within FR are contradictory. Some even say that the governor asked for the resignation which might explain the controversy.

That is correct, he resigned. I talked to him on the thread that announced it.

[Fruitbat]

As opposed to all the lies they've been caught in over the years, this is different, ...why? ;)

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks for that info. Too often, even here on FR, the story gets morphed and the facts get muddied. If we can keep the record straight, we should. Steffen got a raw deal and the original threads show pretty clearly that it was MD4BUSH doing the rumor spreading. Isn't it ironic that the rumors were "common knowledge" just as was the employer of Joe Wilson's wife.

Bogey, see #14

[DJ MacWoW]

ping

[nopardons]

The WAPO just doesn't know when to stop "digging", it appears.

Since their lies are so blatant and so easily disproved, you'd think that they'd shut up now. I doubt that they shall and if this ever goes to court, their tacit part in this conspiracy ( and YES, that's exactly what this was !) will become a prominent part of any trial.

[Alia]

I remember that he resigned.

[tutstar]

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