Who was fooled by this one?
 

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."

Kennedy, meanwhile, apologized for slandering America's dedicated law-enforcement agents by portraying them as totalitarian thugs.

Ha ha, we fooled you! Here's the actual Kennedy response as reported by the Globe:

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.

Ted Kennedy relied on faulty intelligence to intentionally slam the president.

Where are the investigations?

Why don't they print his name in the paper if he lied about it? Seems to me it must be some sort of crime to make a false report like that.

You've got it all wrong.

He was using hyperbole to prove his point. The point the student was making is what is important. See, this kind of thing could have happened. It doesn't matter that it didn't actually happen.

Either way, it is Bush's fault.

Hmm, and I was feeling pretty good about the thoroughness of our gov't.

But I was worried that they'd come and take my Red Book.;)

What a shock. Yet again ole Teddy makes an ass out of himself, and he still blames it on Bush. Who the hell votes for this jackass?

Shaun?

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Our local "paper," the Sacramento Bee, used the Red Book story YESTERDAY in its latest Bush-bashing editorial. It was embarrasing, given that the fraud was uncovered several full days ago. They printed a 1/2 inch correction in 6-point type today.

Hey! Where are all the libs who were jumping up and down about this one?? Funny how they don't show up on this thread. They must be too busy telling each other how right they all are again on another thread.

Yeah, our friends on the left sure get all giddy when something like this comes up. In the end, when it's proven false, they would "Rather" not say anything. That their best one-liners like this have consistantly withered under the slightest scrutiny does not seem to deter the faithfull. It's because they so very much WANT this kind of thing to be true. Oh well, in the end they can always fall back the their favorite standard, "Bush lied".

As Dan Rather would say, "fake but accurate".

ROFLMAO!!!!

Randy

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