[Enchante]

Wow, sounds like this might be a web version of Rathergate --- all these (possibly) fictitious quotations attributed to the (possibly) fictitious persons, always used to bash President Bush, sound most suspicious. This guy seems (possibly) like a major league fabricator of anti-Bush "news"...........

[Enchante]

This story may seem too quirky and trivial, but as an example of (possible) leftist fabrications it may fit nicely into the Jason Blair pattern.

Not only do the quotes and persons appear to be fictitious, but in the past 24 hours someone is trying to clean up the web, actually editing past articles to remove this stuff!! George Orwell's "memory hole" re-visited, except that (fortunately) there are cache pages and the fabricator should not be able to cover his tracks so easily. This sounds like a case for freeper research.

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http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2006_07_16_archive.html#115332917446438214

George Harleigh Is Vanishing Before Your Eyes!

Classical Values started this a couple of days ago, asking if anyone could find evidence that "George Harleigh" actually exists. He is described as a retired Southern Illinois University political science professor who had worked in the Nixon and Reagan Administrations--and is frequently quoted by leftists about what an evil crazy man George Bush is. I did a little digging too, and George Harleigh, for a retired professor, had left no mark anywhere.

Well, guess what? One of the leftist journalists who seems to be source of most (all?) the news stories quoting "George Harleigh" is not responding to the email from Classical Values asking about this guy--but news stories that used to quote George Harleigh are being silently edited. I'm sure that somewhere in a virtual reality hell, "George Harleigh" is disappearing, while screaming, "I'm melting, I'm melting!"

This Google search brings up a bunch of places where "George Harleigh" gets quoted. The very first result (at when I just ran it) was this Capitol Hill Blues news story. Guess what? There's no longer any reference to George Harleigh--and no acknowledgement that the story has been updated or changed. Someone can't admit that he is a liar, making people up, can he?

However, other leftists have already copied (rather than linked) to those news stories, such as this one.

It is really amusing that the left feels the need to make people up. I am reminded of the musician Moby's suggestion that leftists should go onto web sites and pretend to be conservative Republicans, disgruntled with George Bush, spreading stories that Moby admitted that Moby admitted that didn't believe. I suppose if you believe that there's no right or wrong, all of this is perfectly acceptable behavior. For decent people, it's another matter.

[piasa]

BREAKING: Conned big time "CIA Witness" to White House Lying about Intel story found to be FRAUD
Capitol Hill Blue ^ | July 9, 2003 Wed| Doug Thompson

[piasa]

Capitol HIll Blue ping

[tcrlaf]

It's plainly clear, to anyone with a brain larger than a peanut, that the Liberal parade of lies, half-truths, obsfuscations, and hatred has peaked and is in decline...

The farther they slide, the loonier they get.....

[singfreedom]

I think you are (possibly) very correct!! ClassicalValues quotes all these references to Freeper threads, some as old as "03, but I have never seen them.

It begs the question, "What rock have I been under?"

Very interesting story, lending even more credence to the old saying "Libs lie". Thanks for posting.

[windchime]

Capital Hill Blue refresher:

BREAKING: Conned big time "CIA Witness" to White House Lying about Intel story found to be FRAUD

The TRUE Capitol Hill Blue story the PRESS IGNORED:'Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush'

Did Capitol Hill Blue Post An Article With Fabrications?

Games People Play  FR  William McKinley  7-10-03

Why is Crapitol Hill Blue whitewashing their forum?

The Uranium Files- Iraq, Mr. Bush... and more-  Backhoe   7-15-03

[maine-iac7]

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[stylin19a]

editing the guy out of any article\post does no good.
especially when everybody & their brother has 'em cached.

He should be deleting the articles & posts.

[piasa]

Ping...Appy Pappy’s update on the status of Doug Thompson, who apparently ran into a cow :

Doug Thompson, founder of Capital Hill Blue, in critical condition
Dan Casey’s Blog ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2958403/posts
Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2012 8:00:35 PM by AppyPappy

Doug Thompson, who many of us old-timers remember from the Clinton years, is in critical condition after hitting a cow while Doug was riding his motorcycle.

Doug was a player in the anti-Clinton campaign with his website Capital Hill Blue. CHB was frequently cited on FreeRepublic during those years. He has since become a big broken-glass Democrat and retired to Floyd County to pursue photography.