Wow! Money for kids and seniors embezzled into Air America!

[boret]

Correction and Update

I stand corrected. The Bronx Times does have a website:

Bronx Times – Your local paper covering news, crime & arts

However, the original article cited in the OP via the Gotham Gazette does not appear there.

[Hentor_the_Barbarian]

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. 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 for blog discussion on “Evan Cohen.”

Here’s one for Air America, 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.

[boret]

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

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.