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December 28, 2005

Another Lefty Hoax

Via KVM, I caught this piece by James Taranto:

It’s Mao or Never

“The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for ‘The Little Red Book’ by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story,” reports the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Mass.:

The 22-year-old student tearfully admitted he made the story up to his history professor, Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, and his parents, after being confronted with the inconsistencies in his account.

Among those who fell for the story, as we noted Friday, was Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, who cited it in a Boston Globe op-ed piece (though he claimed the book in question was “the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung’s Communist Manifesto”). According to a Globe news story on the hoax, the Globe interviewed the shifty student–whose request for anonymity both papers have respected even though he lied to them–”but decided not to write a story about his assertion, because of doubts about its veracity.”

Ted Kennedy used this story to condemn the administration in a Boston Glob op-ed last week.

Informed that the report was yet another lefty hoax, Kennedy's people responded:

Laura Capps, a Kennedy spokeswoman, said last night that the senator cited ‘’public reports” in his opinion piece. Even if the assertion was a hoax, she said, it did not detract from Kennedy’s broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance.
"Fake but Accurate", as Gary at KVM notes.

Add it to the list of fake hate crimes sweeping liberal campuses nationwide.

Hey - any news on that Paul Mirecki investigation? People are still waiting.

Note to lefties: With the advent of blogs, faking hate crimes is pretty dicey business.

Posted by Mitch at December 28, 2005 07:05 AM | TrackBack
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the college's president said. "Whatever the source, such threats undermine our sense of safety and community." "It was a wonderfully teachable time to talk about what we face," said a college advisor who was not at all deterred by the news that the proof of campus hate had been disproved.

Situational ethics is a truely amazing phenomenon. Fake but accurate indeed.

Posted by: Kermit at December 28, 2005 09:29 AM

"Note to lefties: With the advent of blogs, faking hate crimes is pretty dicey business."

Whew, thanks for the warning! Guess I'll have to ditch my nefarious plan to brand my cheek with a red hot crucifix, carve HUGH HEWITT IS TEH ROXORS on my abdomen with a sharpened spoon, inhale some chloroform and leave my bleeding, almost lifeless body behind the 1280 studios to be found by my equally nefarious brethren of the MSM in an attempt to bring down all that is decent and kind about this country. BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHGS!

Posted by: Tim at December 28, 2005 12:21 PM

"Whew, thanks for the warning! Guess I'll have to ditch my nefarious plan..."

And they say blogs have no impact! Hah!

Posted by: mitch at December 28, 2005 12:32 PM

"Hey - any news on that Paul Mirecki investigation?"

Been wondering the same thing for some time now. I set up a google news alert to inform me about the case, but so far the story has just been re-hashed.

Strange.

Posted by: NoThanks at January 5, 2006 10:26 PM
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