I expect an all-time record turnout of dead people.
So do I...
Posted on 01/20/2012 9:01:48 AM PST by tcrlaf
Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) - In what appears to be a last ditch attempt to halt Newt Gingrich's late momentum in South Carolina, a fake CNN Breaking News alert was emailed to state Republican activists early Thursday morning claiming that the former House Speaker pressured his ex-wife to have an abortion.
CNN did not send out the email alert.
It's not clear how many people received the fake email, though at least two members of the South Carolina GOP Executive Committee, who did not want to be named, were among those who found the missive in their inboxes this morning.
Two South Carolina Republicans from different parts of the state independently informed CNN about the email on Friday morning.
The email alert was sent from fake account made to look like a CNN breaking news email address: "BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com."
"A source close to Marianne Gingrich tells CNN that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich forced her to abort a pregnancy conceived during the affair that preceeded her marriage to Gingrich," the fake email reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
I doubt it was Romney. My guess is CNN itself used a stalking horse e-mail account and claimed the e-mail didn’t come from them. The media is capable of playing dirty with Republicans while at the same time protecting and shielding Democrats. How ironic that it happened hours after John King got his head handed to him on a silver platter.
I’m blaming the Paulestinians. I believe they were the ones who sent out those mailers saying both Newt and Santorum were pro-abortion based on some misinterpretation of votes on some obscure bills. They’re also more internet-savvy, e.g. good at spamming online polls due to skewing younger.
This has Rove-stink all over it.
bttt
Financial sectors are seeing a possibility of a steady hand at the helm and destruction of all the anti-business regulations and laws that have been passed in the last three years.
If the original sender REALLY knew what they were doing, they could probably have camoflaged where the email originated, but otherwise the header would go a long way toward finding the source. Though, bear in mind, I believe it is possible to spoof another email address - i.e. a good hacker could make it look like it came from the Gingrich campaign, even if it came from CNN.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. The DNC brownshirt hate machine will be out thugging the vote in full force.
Moby (dickless) told reporters and his fans to troll conservative message boards spreading the same sorts of rumors about Bush in 2004 to get some voters to throw their arms up and stay home.
This is going to be a very dirty election. Tire slashing from Democrat goons won’t be the half of it.
Romney.
You would be wrong. CNN is cable, not broadcast.
CNN still requires a federal license because their signal is distributed via satellite to cable providers nationwide (though, technically, that is not a broadcast license).
From the FCC website: "The Communications Act requires a license for any commercial communications transmitted via satellite to, from and within the United States. Satellite transmission involves both a space station and an earth station to complete the transmission link. Thus, the commission licenses both space stations and earth stations."
the crap we call the MSM today need to be looked at more closely and if found to have been working with this white house then they need their license taken away or fined.
Notice how the left like Wasserman egg head and her ilk don’t complain about the bias except for FOX.
The left refuse to admit that virtually all media today, Hollywood etc is all left wing propaganda.
also overturn the overturned don’t ask because it has caused so many problems already.
Then Govt health care
weird you say that because the Dems say the MSM is not biased.
Yea they would seeing as the MSM reports the propaganda for the left.
"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates most forms of electronic transmission in the United States, including radio, airborne TV, cable and wireless. All of these require licensing of some sort come pursuant to criteria determined by the FCC and legislators."
So I think the question is an open one and not as cut and dried as one might assume. Anyway, the filing of a complaint might still be warranted (maybe with the FEC) since by e-mailing rumor and gossip to selected members of a political party (not broadcast as "news") it seems to be an attempt by a news network to covertly sway a State primary election result. That was my only point.
Simplest explanation sometimes is the correct one.
It's an obvious piece of disinformation. Question is, "who dropped it?"
0bama campaign and R0mney campaign are both plausible answers.
Loons at KOS, DU, or some similar cesspool are also plausible answers.
Which is....?
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