[section9]

No he isn't .. but then he never claimed to be .. at least he was honest about that.

I can't pin point it .. but my gut tells me there is some more going on that we haven't figured out yet

He wasn't even honest about that.

Doug Thompson claimed to be an impartial reporter. In fact, he was an inveterate Bush basher, as his columns from earlier in the year reveal.

There's a lot more here than meets the eye. Thompson's "story" started to move, and people started to pick it up. Unfortunately for Doug, FR people started looking into the column and highlighted its similarities with earlier works. Once the heat was on about his sourcing and the origins of the mysterious Mr. Wilkenson, Thompson jumped off this bandwagon like a cat on a hot tin roof.

Now comes time to connect the dots. Why did Pitt, managing editor of truthout, lift this story without permission and peddle it to Japan Today? Pitt is, after all, a prominent member of the CHB rant section. Would he have done this without Doug's permission? Color me skeptical.

I was willing to believe Doug's retraction at first. Now, I'm not so sure. Something here doesn't pass the elephant feces test.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[CanisRex]

Once the heat was on about his sourcing and the origins of the mysterious Mr. Wilkenson, Thompson jumped off this bandwagon like a cat on a hot tin roof.

The retraction came waaaaaay too fast for my tastes. Nice analysis, btw, on your posts.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

He is believing a lie, but only to fuel his preconcieved ideas about GW. And it only feeds those on here who already are in agreement with him. Not only does Doug look like an ass, so do those who have been on here trashing the President for the last 30 months. Dang I wish I had saved a ping list of these idiots for a time like this. Will they admit they were wrong about GW? No. Did Doug? No.

[Mo1]

Doug Thompson claimed to be an impartial reporter,

I stand corrected, he did say that

BTW .. good post and I agree .. something isn't passing the smell test