Yesterday I was reading an article on InfoWars that accusses the government of not telling the first responders the air at Ground Zero was unsafe to breath.......
The first thing that came into my head was "well that's another couple thousand people involved in 9/11".
The second thing was "wait.... it's InfoWars, who wrote this article". I scrolled up to the top of the page to find a familiar holocaust denying, non- fact checking publication was responsible. That's right folks the American Free Press!
The author was a man named Pat Shannan, who also brought you "proof" that the OKC bombing was an inside job run by the FBI. I thought it was particularly interesting that in the article about the OKC bombings, there was not a single source citation (If you don't believe me, read it yourself at: http://www.rense.com/general63/infor.htm). Shannan keeps referring to "unnamed sources" and "main stream media reports", but never give so much as an article title for you to Google. I wouldn't doubt that his source for the garbage he's putting out is non other than Alex Jones himself. This "conspiracy" makes sense to me because I know of no other news publication that AJ cites as a source that is completely in agreement with him. Usually InfoWars has to engage in quote-mining and interpretive perversions of context to scare their readers, but not with the AFP. Being seperated from a REAL news source (AP) by only one initial, seems to me to be a direct attempt to instill a false sense of credibility about its articles....and that seems dishonest.
That all being said, it is obvious that the AFP or "All False Publication" only exists now to provide sources of reference for CT wack jobs who require absolutely no evidence in their stories as long as the make the government look bad (which they do good enough themselves).
Monday, May 19, 2008
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