The Rove scoop that wasn’t: a mini-retrospective on Truthout’s Jason Leopold

Posted by: ST on June 18, 2006 at 1:48 pm

… as told by Joe Lauria, someone who is quite familiar with Truthout.org’s Jason Leopold and his penchant for using underhanded tactics to get ‘scoops’ that often turn out to be false – like the one from May 13 in which he claimed to have the scoop from anonymous but supposedly reliable sources that Karl Rove had been indicted in le affaire de Plame, which we now know was untrue.

Hat tip: USS Neverdock

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  1. forest hunter says:

    USS Neverdock link is now USS Neverlink, ST. :((

  2. camojack says:

    forest hunter:
    Never is a long time…the link worked for me.

    As for the topic of the post, the Left will always try to make something out of nothing, whenever it suits their agenda… :-?