I posted a few days ago about the "sources" for a lot of stories carried by newspapers being phony. These sources must be looked at whenever something "breaks," particularly against GOP. So join with me as we stroll through the Daisy Chain of sources for this Foley "story." First, it is no accident that they are all "progressive" blogs or News Services. Their function is quoting other "progressives" that publish hit pieces against GOP; they will claim that these "progressives" are news services. When you begin to examine the sources you will see that they are hidden; will lead investigators into a maze that will confuse and obfuscate both sources and groups; and in many cases make that awful Ann Coulter sound like St. Anne curing the sick.

It is claimed that the main "source" for the Foley story is CREW, the acronym for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. This org is now claiming they turned the emails over to the FBI in May and the FBI did nothing---the FBI is saying the group sent them emails that were "redacted"---information in the original deliberately withheld----- meaning that they were altered second hand documents. When the FBI asked CREW for complete emails, CREW refused. CREW claims the FBI is lying (what else is new?) and that the horrible FEDS refused to investigate on the basis of the redacted emails. CREW also refused to reveal when they got them and how they got them---evidence gathered illegally is not admissable in court, and cannot be the basis for an FBI investigation. Another "progressive" org called, Common Dreams, is a source for CREW. Common Dreams is as far left as you can get and from their website I conclude that it is devoted to "hit pieces" against Republicans. They have a "news" org as part and parcel of their existence, it is on their "news" page that you can find an entire daisy chain of so called sources that they quote. They then quote themselves as a source.

Worse, they list as a source---citizens for ethics--- which is actually a link back to Common Dreams. So their "news" link that is actually themselves. Common Dreams lists as sponsors: uber leftist Barbara Ehrenreich, FAIR founder Jeff Cohen, Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, WBAI's Deepa Fernandes, noted author Lewis Lapham (former editor of Harpers now currently working for the impeachment and conviction of Bush) and many more friends of FAIR. Other sources are Progressive News Wire, Democracy Now, Max Speak, then there is the Committee to Protect Journalists and not to forget Working for Change....I could list a hundred of these basically unknown "progressive" sites that spews out hit pieces by the hour which refer to sources that are part of their network.

Exhausted yet? I am.

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