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How Low Can You Go?

Its a week before the elections and the mass media is trying to out do each other while digging up dirt on both candidates. Of course, they are so desperate that some of the stuff they come up with is off the wall.

Yesterday the New York Times ran a front page story (use BugMeNot to bypass registration) about how 380 tons of explosives went missing in Iraq and seemingly blamed the Bush administration for not safeguarding. This of course was picked up by the Kerry campaign. Now the story is falling apart at the seams - Drudge reported that NBC News had a team with the troops in Iraq and had seen that the weapons bunker in question was empty of explosives when the Americas got there. Of course, the Kerry Campaign refused to back down calling it a “coverup”. Now comes word from the LA Times (via Drudge, use BugMeNot to bypass registration) that CBS of “faked memos” fame planned to run this story on 60 Minutes two days before the elections. And to add fuel to the fire, Cliff May from the National Review is reporting (via LGF) that the story was a deliberate fraud leaked by the IAEA to make sure that Mohammed El Baradei gets reappointed. So what we have is a two major news organizations running or resurrecting an ancient story which itself was fradulent and leaked by a foreign organization. Don’t these people have any shame?

Of course the conservative media is harrasing the Democratic candidate as well. Also yesterday, the Washington Times ran a front page “bombshell” story about John Kerry lieing about his meeting with the UN Security Counsel before the big resolution on Iraq was passed. After interviewing five out of 15 ambassadors, the paper concludes that it never happened. I personally want to see more proof than that and in any case, since when do we trust UN ambassadors to tell the truth?

Now comes word from the blogsphere that “new documents” have been uncovered linking John Kerry to the communist regime of North Vietnam during the Vietnam war. And of course they have been discovered “by accident” a week before the election:

But why were they unearthed now, just one week before the Nov. 2 election? Corsi insisted the timing was unintentional. “It’s truly one of those accidents of how things develop in research,” he said. “We did not spring any surprise, we just found these documents, and even the archivist didn’t know they were there.”

Aha, accident, right… And the documents are authentic too, right? Haven’t anyone learned anything from Rathergate?

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