Reply #63: Two things: [View All]

[Kelly Rupert]

1. My initial post was satirical. I made up an attention-getting headline without factual basis, and then employed exactly the same journalistic integrity that Truthout did in defending it.

2. Personally, I believe that Leopold made it up, and that his editors were covering for him, partially because they believed he would be vindicated anyway, and partially to protect their reputation. I have absolutely no factual basis for this belief. There is also no factual basis for the belief that their source lied. Nor is their any factual basis for any belief in a conspiracy. Nor is their any factual basis for the belief that it was an honest mistake. The only people who know a goddamn thing are Truthout and the supposed "source", and they don't feel like telling us the whole story.