Yes, that story has been appearing on Blogs for some time now and most
bloggers have been very good about either expressing skepticism about it
from the beginning or certainly updating their blogs with further
information as it becomes available (both of which Eugene has done.)

I find it interesting that you equate a blogger who pointed to a news story,
expressing skepticism and then updating with an apology, to a professional
news anchor who fabricated a story out of thin air for the sole purpose of
trying to influence a presidential election, created false documents to
support his story and then never apologized for or retracted the story when
it was proven false along with the documents.

You need to get with Herr Baier.


Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Collins [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The Congressional FBI Raid

Denys Beauchemin wrote:

> The way to the Volokh conspiracy is fraught with dangers and misdirection.

(As is the Volokh conspiracy blog itself.)

> And are you actually saying some of the news stories were not completely
> accurate?  I find that hard to believe.   ROTFL.

Here's Eugene apologizing for posting a news item from a Canadian 
conservative newspaper without checking the facts, perhaps because like Dan 
Rather, he wanted the article to be true:

National Post Apologizes for the 
Iranian-Jews-Required-to-Wear-Identifying-Markers Story:
See http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/24/canada.iran.reut/index.html

"It is now clear the story is not true .... We apologize for the mistake and

for the consternation it has caused not just National Post readers, but the 
broader public who read the story."

I also regret having passed along what proved to be an incorrect claim. I 
flagged my uncertainty in the original post, but I'd much prefer to have not

quoted what proves to be a false story, than to have quoted it even with a 
not-sure-whether-this-is-right disclaimer.

=====

So far there have been no calls for Eugene to resign from his post as 
conspiracy blog anchorman.

Bruce

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