- Excerpt: Conclusion: Neither of the two brief stories
from KHQA were important at the time they were filed. Both were just brief
notices that what would normally be happening after Obama's win was happening.
If you're going to be President, you have to resign the Senate and the
Gov. gets to appoint your replacement. As President-elect you are going
to want to have a say in that. And you will, to a point, get it.
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- Both stories are just commenting on Obama's calendar
at the time. As such the source was most probably the campaign itself,
or a person in the campaign close to local Chicago reporters. Just a couple
of dull factoids that stated there was to be a meeting and yes there had
been a meeting.
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- But yesterday, when the official Obama party line, issued
by the campaign and spoken Obama himself, was that there was no meeting
and discussion between Obama and the Blago., then these two unfortunate
-- preciously harmless -- factoids became explosive. Explosive because
they exposed the lie. And so they had to die.
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- I've written to both Sower and Hunt asking for comment.
I'll report on any response. I doubt any response has been forthcoming.
Both "reporters" have doubtless already gotten the word to be
quiet "if you know what's good for you." ==========
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- December 10, 2008
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- UPDATED: Missing Pages of History Restored: The Obama-Blago
Story That Disappeared is Here
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- "I did not have interpersonal relations with that
man, Governor Blagojevich." - Bloodthirsty Liberal
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- The story that put the lie to the No-O & Blogo Meeting
was discovered yesterday. Once discovered it promptly disappeared down
the memory hole at News : KHQA. Seeing that it had vanished I searched
for it in Google Cache and, sure enough, there it was. For about an hour
and then cached page vanished as well. A second story from the same source
confirming the meeting also met the same fate.
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- But, fearing something like the erasure of the cached
page, I made a screen shot. Here it is:
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- UPDATE VIA: Little Green Footballs Found "at the
Illinois Government News Network, an announcement that the meeting took
place and the Senate seat was discussed, with the headline: Governor Blagojevich
Congratulates President-elect Obama and Discusses U.S. Senate Seat
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- UPDATE VIA THE COMMENTS: Another screengrab from another
"disappeared" story from KHQA states Obama and the Governor meeting
took place. This one is by KHQA's Alexis Hunt (Left).
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- UPDATE: In a vaguely worded "clarification"
just issued, KHQA states:
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- KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story
that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com.? The story,
which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama
in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio
and on blog sites Wednesday.
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- The story housed in our website archive was on the morning
of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that
day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA
has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich
did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date. -KHQA Clarification
: News : KHQA[Emphasis added]
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- The pulled story, as you can see, was filed by one "Carol
Sowers." [Left] Ms. Sowers position at the station is given, elsewhere,
as "Executive News Director." She also covers other stories on
the political beat for the station.
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- Why this "clarification" has been issued is
not cleared up by the item. The original item does not, as you can see,
"suggest" that the meeting might/maybe happen. It says that "He's
meeting" (He is meeting).... The only question that the clarification
raises is about Ms. Sowers' professional ethics: Was she making it up then
or is she making it up now?
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- Let's review what Ms. Sowers original story on November
5 tells us:
- Who: Obama and the Governor
- What: A meeting is is to be held.
- Where: In Chicago.
- When: The afternoon of November 5.
- Why: To discuss the Senate replacement for President-Elect
Obama.
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- Let's review what Ms. Hunt's original story on November
8 tells us:
- Who: President-Elect Obama and the Governor
- What: Had a meeting
- Where: In Illinois.
- When: "Earlier in the week"
- Why: To discuss filling Obama's seat in the Senate.
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- Let's review what today's "clairification"
tells us:
- Who: No person, just an amorphous thing called "KHQA"
which "wishes to offer."
- What: A story "which discussed the appointment of
a replacement for..."
- Where: Somewhere "on our website."
- When: Sometime "last month."
- Why: "KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever
took place." But perhaps this KHQA could ask Ms. Sowers who does (or
did)...
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- Now recall the statement in today's "Clarification"
that says, "KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place."
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- Well, if it KHQA had read itself on the 8th it would
have that knowledge. But since the KHQA story from the 8th has now been
erased from the KHQA story database I guess you cold say "KHQA has
no knowledge that any meeting ever took place." But it would be more
correct to say "KHQA no longer has any knowledge that any meeting
ever took place. We did have that knowledge in our knowledge base but we
dumped it."
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- Mark this as incident #56,967 of "It's not the crime,
it's the coverup."
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- My own experience tells me that:
- 1) When a story containing inconvenient facts is suddenly
erased from a news site with no warning, that story probably contains the
truth.
- 2) When the removal is followed up quickly by a purging
of the Google cache of the story, that story contained a very sensitive
truth.
- 3) When, finally, a lawyeresque non-disclaimer disclaimer
appears on the news site to explain the erasures, the original story is
a stick of dynamite with a short fuse and the reporter is either posting
her resume on Monster, or hiring security, or both.
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- Conclusion: Neither of the two brief stories from KHQA
were important at the time they were filed. Both were just brief notices
that what would normally be happening after Obama's win was happening.
If you're going to be President, you have to resign the Senate and the
Gov. gets to appoint your replacement. As President-elect you are going
to want to have a say in that. And you will, to a point, get it.
-
- Both stories are just commenting on Obama's calendar
at the time. As such the source was most probably the campaign itself,
or a person in the campaign close to local Chicago reporters. Just a couple
of dull factoids that stated there was to be a meeting and yes there had
been a meeting.
-
- But yesterday, when the official Obama party line, issued
by the campaign and spoken Obama himself, was that there was no meeting
and discussion between Obama and the Blago., then these two unfortunate
-- preciously harmless -- factoids became explosive. Explosive because
they exposed the lie. And so they had to die.
-
- I've written to both Sower and Hunt asking for comment.
I'll report on any response. I doubt any response has been forthcoming.
Both "reporters" have doubtless already gotten the word to be
quiet "if you know what's good for you."
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- Posted by Vanderleun at December 10, 2008 5:16 PM
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- LINK: http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/bad_americans/missing_pages_o.php
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