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To: Enchante; Fedora; Howlin; ravingnutter; piasa; Peach; Grampa Dave; pinz-n-needlez; canadianally; ...

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.





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.


2 posted on 07/21/2006 12:06:14 AM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: Trust Nancy Pelosi to Win the War on Terror!! (gag))
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To: Enchante
Were you not here, when CAPITAL HILL BLUE and it's owner ( who once was a FREEPER ) were exposed for the lying piece of scum he was? A vast majority of his columns and his supposed sources, were the guy's own fictions, stated as fact.

But the interesting part of this new stuff, is the deletions. Who caught on and WHO questioned and/or exposed this new stuff?

3 posted on 07/21/2006 12:33:12 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Enchante; cyncooper

To: TnMomofTwo The rest of the story is Doug Thompson was exposed and confronted right here on FR by a freeper who started doing research and called Doug on it. As I note at #213 [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147610/posts?page=213#213](where I've linked to the discovery and ultimate outing----make no mistake, Doug Thompson did not step forward on his own), the Wilkinson smear/lie was set to coordinate with Joe Wilson's Niger saga.
Thompson was easier to expose because he was already regarded by the mainstreams as a crackpot. They'll use his stuff when it is to their benefit, but he is easier to get the truth out over the noise of his propaganda. Wilson is nuts and a liar, too, but has better credentials, hence his story has stuck around despite having holes a mile wide in it.
217 posted on 06/04/2004 2:41:32 PM PDT by cyncooper


5 posted on 07/21/2006 12:46:35 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Enchante

Doug Thompson and his site were banned from FR for Bogus stories. He is a flake.


12 posted on 07/21/2006 1:08:11 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Enchante

Last time CHB spew was "internationalized" by Marc Ash's Truthout ste which sent the CHB article to Japan Today, where it was picked up by other press outlets with more "weight" than the obscure CHB. Then our lib "driveby media" took the story and reprinted it WITHOUT sourcing it and WITHOUT the name of Doug's imaginary friend/source. Once that was done there was no effective means for readers who stick to big-name media of spotting the bogus story since it was now wrapped in MSM camouflage. Thus, a story once fit only for the suparmarket checkout lane tabloids grew legs because it had been printed in the *cough* credible *cough* MSM.


13 posted on 07/21/2006 1:31:52 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Enchante

See tag line


16 posted on 07/21/2006 2:24:47 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength)
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To: Enchante

Thanks for the ping. I am amazed to see that having failed to foist a fake source off on us here at FR, he has tried to do it again. This guy is a real piece of work.


18 posted on 07/21/2006 2:49:13 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Enchante; All
This is surely a weird case- our friends at Little Green Footballs, via Classical Values, are covering it.

As usual, the "comments" sections have more information, links, and snarky remarks:

Fake But Accurate But Nonexistent

Here’s an astounding mainstream media deception uncovered by Eric at Classical Values, who noticed a host of quotes attributed to “George Harleigh,” an SIU political science professor who supposedly worked for the Nixon and Reagan administrations and is now very anti-Bush—a political science professor who appears to be completely nonexistent: Where’s George? And where’s Doug?  | link: 121 comments |

#29 Spiny Norman  7/20/2006 10:55PM PDT
 

#24 Infidel varmint

Stephen Glass, Jason Blair, Burkett/Rather/Mapes, Leopold, sock puppetry by Greenwald and Hitzick, and now this guy.

Guys, If you have to lie to promote your cause, consider the possibility that you cause may not be worth promoting.

As one might expect, the most illuminating (and hilarious) discussion on that subject is at Jeff Goldstein's.
#51 Doss  7/20/2006 11:48PM PDT
 

#39 Powderfinger

I found the guy - Greg Packer.

He's not just another face in the crowd at concerts, book signings, and sporting events. Somehow, over the course of 10 years, one man has managed to become the media's go-to guy, quoted more than 100 times in various publications, including several prominent newspapers. Greg Packer is the "man on the street."

• Lucy Rameriz - Tang Memos, vanished no trace
• Terrance J. Wilkinson - Niger Uranium bogus claim (interestingly this story contained forgeries too), vanished no trace
• George Harleigh - GOPer John Dean type - no trace
hmmm...am I missing any?

posted by: topsecretk9 on 07.20.06 at 08:30 PM [permalink]
22 posted on 07/21/2006 4:56:28 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: Enchante

Thanks for ping.


24 posted on 07/21/2006 7:38:23 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Enchante

Thanks for the ping, and a 'just back from vacation' bump.

Pinz


48 posted on 07/25/2006 1:33:25 AM PDT by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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