# Wow! Money for kids and seniors embezzled into Air America! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 27, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-money-for-kids-and-seniors-embezzled-into-air-america/314369 "2005-07-27T06:31:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![boret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@boret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boret)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-money-for-kids-and-seniors-embezzled-into-air-america/314369/101 "2005-07-30T22:56:31Z")
**Correction and Update** I stand corrected. The Bronx Times _does_ have a website: > **[Bronx Times – Your local paper covering news, crime & arts](https://www.bxtimes.com/)** > > The premier community newspaper covering the Bronx, including local news, politics, crime, sports, arts & entertainment, and events. However, the original article cited in the OP via the Gotham Gazette does not appear there. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-money-for-kids-and-seniors-embezzled-into-air-america/314369/102 "2005-07-31T15:11:59Z")
I know his history fairly well, **boret**. It’s a mixed bag of respectable positions and threads like this one. He’s one, however, I otherwise maintain a modicum of respect for, so these particular threads are all the more disappointing when they happen. I just learned of an interesting tool called [Blog Pulse](http://www.blogpulse.com/). It seems it might help to illuminate one aspect of the anatomy of the smear you are talking about here. Here is a [trend-line](http://www.blogpulse.com/trend?query1=Evan+Cohen&label1=Evan+Cohen&query2=&label2=&query3=&label3=&days=60&x=59&y=4) for blog discussion on “Evan Cohen.” Here’s one for [Air America](http://www.blogpulse.com/trend?query1=Air+America&label1=&query2=&label2=&query3=&label3=&days=180&x=59&y=8), for context. Now, I am not saying that it is a smear just because it spiked dramatically right around the time that **Mr. Moto** posted it here. I assume that any news story would look similar. ---
**Author:** ![boret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@boret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boret)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-money-for-kids-and-seniors-embezzled-into-air-america/314369/103 "2005-07-31T20:36:33Z")
Thanks so much for that site, **Hentor**. Very useful to me. By the way, disregard my “correction” in post #101. My original post was accurate. In one of my searches, I typoed the Bronx _News_ as the Bronx _Times_. The Bronx _News_ (where the story originated) does _not_ have a website, as I correctly noted in my previous post, and is not affiliated in any way with the Bronx _Times_. :smack: The Bronx _News_, where the story originated, is published by Chris Hagendorn. Another one of his community papers, _The Greenwich Post_ was sued for libel by Michael Skakel (the Kennedy cousin) in 2001: [http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious\_murders/famous/moxley/updates.html?sect=13](http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/moxley/updates.html?sect=13) > [@](#): > > In July 2001, Skakel’s legal machinations took on a new form when he filed a libel lawsuit against a The Greenwich Post, which ran a story quoting convicted felon, Sherman “Tad” Baldwin’s accusation that Michael Skakel had taken part in the robbery of a hair salon in 1975. > > Sherman filed the lawsuit in state Superior Court in Stamford, naming the paper, publisher Christopher Hagedorn, reporter Ken Borsuk and Baldwin as defendants and claiming that he had warned the paper in advance that the armed robbery allegation was false and that Baldwin was not a credible source. The lawsuit will contest that the printing of the story could taint the jury pool in Skakel’s trial. It was only after the lawsuit was filed and Sherman had provided the paper with information about the Baldwin’s lack of credibility, that the paper printed a retraction. Relevant or not? I report, you decide. 🆒 Will this new story have legs? The blogger who “owns” it, Brian Maloney, was supposed to appear on Bill O’Reilly on Friday, but was “bumped”. Let’s see if he (or Michelle Malkin) breaks it into MSM in the coming week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-money-for-kids-and-seniors-embezzled-into-air-america/314369.md?page=5)