[terilyn]

You've done a terrific job with this entire mess. Nice work!

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[Sabertooth]

You're rockin!

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[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

A "GREAT JOB" bump.

[terilyn]

Over here!

[William McKinley]

Blog entry:

I got the following mail back from Japan Today:

We'd like to run the article by Doug Thompson but we don't subscribe to Capitol Hill Blue. We either have to wait until truthout.org prints a correction that we can use or -- if you can give us Mr Thompson's e-mail address -- I will contact him and ask for permission to run the story whose link you provided.

Thanks

My reply:

OK, we are obviously having a few disconnects here.

1) Doug Thompson is dougthompson@capitolhillblue.com

2) Doug Thompson claims that he has been in email contact with you, and that you told him you got the story from truthout.org- so either you already had his email, or he and I are talking to two different people, or he misled me when he said he had been in contact with you.

3) The story you ran did NOT originate with truthout.org. It originated on Capitol Hill Blue at 0129 EDT on July 8. It was at this URL: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_2518.shtml That URL now has a modified version of the story- the changes are he backed off the assertion that Bush admitted lying, and he removed the part of the story about Wilkinson. A copy of the story was posted on Free Republic at 1442 EDT July 8: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/942434/posts This copy is identical to the one Truthout.org sold to you. You published something that Truthout, a leftist propaganda outfit, plagiarized.

4) Not only was it plagiarized, it turns out it was also containing completely false information. There is no Terrance J. Wilkinson. Does your paper have an ombudsman? Maybe he should take a look at this.

5) If you go to the Truthout.org website, you will find that they don't even have the story up. They were using you to publish a false story.

6) If you search on a phrase from the story, their search engine will find it and show a brief excerpt of it. But if you click on the link to go to it, it now takes you to a completely different story. They are trying to hide that they ever had it up, since their plagiarism was discovered. You can find the details of what they did on this Free Republic thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943322/posts.

I appreciate that you want to get a retraction from Truthout.org, but you are acting as if they are an honorable organization. They are not. They stole an article, and as it turns out they got caught because through a twist of fate the article they stole was in the process of being proven to contain fraudulent information.

Regards

[Registered]

Well, let's see, that means that someone on the port side is following this story as closely as us FReepers..lol. What a bunch of lame-brains.

Good job.

[MediaMole]

This thread should have a more descriptive title.

[xJones]

You've got to hand it to the Honorable Henry Waxman. Anybody who looks like Lon Chaney in 1925's "The Phantom of the Opera" without make-up has to have guts.

[Cathryn Crawford]

You have done such a great job. Ping me to any more to do with this, or let me know privately.

[William McKinley]

Latest posts on my blog:

The amazingly talented Registered, graphic artist and parody maker, noticed something in the aftermath of the CHB fiasco.

He decided to go to the CapitolHillBlue forum and see who is online right now.

To: William McKinley

LOL, looky, looky who's on the CHB forum right now...

Capitol Hill Blue's Reader Rant Recent Visitors: 44
cruiser, Doug Thompson, Mike Coons, Seven of Nine, SkyHawk, LanDroid, William Rivers Pitt, The Doctor, eris, DYogman, TLBSHOW, Registered, Jazzhead, and 31 guest(s)

19 posted on 07/09/2003 9:50 PM EDT by Registered (77% of the mentally ill live in poverty, that leaves 23% doing quite well!)

Who is William Rivers Pitt? He is a leftist propagandist. He has also written a book with Scott Ritter (the former weapons inspector who was vocal in opposing the Iraq war, and got busted for trying to meet up with underage girls at Burger King).

What else did Registered find?

"To: William McKinley

LOL, check out the Pitt's Profile on CHB!!!

Profile for William Rivers Pitt

Member Status: New Reader Ranter

Member Number: 2341

Registered: 09-07-2003

Posts: 1

Location: Boston MA

Occupation: Managing Editor, truthout.org

Homepage: http://www.truthout.org

Managing EDITOR, (friend and lover to Ash!)

27 posted on 07/09/2003 10:01 PM EDT by Registered (77% of the mentally ill live in poverty, that leaves 23% doing quite well!) "

You don't say!

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Amazon.com: Books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know

By Scott Ritter and William Rivers Pitt (Managing editor, Truthout.org)

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WorldNetDaily: Reports claim Ritter arrested in sex sting

Scott Ritter. Have it your way.

[Scenic Sounds]

You are a dynamo!!

Great job!

[The Scorpion King]

I saw some of these same articles on "the information clearing house" website ( a Liberal friend told me about it). The information clearing house reads like an issue of Pravda from the early '80s. I don't put much stock in "truthout."

[Chad Fairbanks]

I've got my own 'inside, unnamed sources' looking into this mess too - of course, having been rated an OS in the Navy my motto has always been 'In God We Trust, All Others we Track and report' so any info I find out will be checked, double-checked, and checked again.

I have the rubber gloves and flashlight ready...

Excellent work, Mr. McKinley

[Cathryn Crawford]

Check your FR mail re:this ASAP.

[arasina]

You know, when I first read your Wilkinson expose' thread last night, I immediately posed the question: Does Mr. Wilkinson know Scott Ritter?"

Just patting myself on the back for being somewhat perceptive.

[Ethyl]

I'm not quite getting all this, does this mean that Doug Thomas is a died-in-the-wool lib, wrote a lie and detracted his lie with possibly a made up character that was feeding him bogus information? Now who is the Pitt character? Sorry, I'm a little slow on all the info. Help.

[PhiKapMom]

You should get the supersleauth award of the month on here if we have one!

Great work!

[Mo1]

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[Valin]

Sounds like they have really learned well from their master.(a certain EX impeached president.
Oh how I love that phrase EX-president. It has a certain ring to it. Or maybe I should call him XXX president