More Leopold Insanity?

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

After Criticizing Jason Leopold, Blogger Seixon Claims Death Threat and Forged Emails.--

1. Background.

Jason Leopold, who used to be a reporter for the L.A. Times and the Dow Jones News Service, has had a bad last few years. His story on former Enron official Thomas White included several plagiarized paragraphs, and its main revelation was an email that Salon editors were unable to verify (the email was suspected to have been fabricated). Salon then retracted Leopold’s article.

When in 2005 Leopold’s book was withdrawn on the eve of release, Howard Kurtz profiled Leopold in the Washington Post:

Salon executive said the source cited by Leopold as providing the e-mail insisted he had never spoken with Leopold. . . .

The release fleshes out a troubled career. Leopold says his grand larceny conviction in 1996 was for stealing compact discs from his employer, a New York music company, and reselling them to record stores. He says he was fired by the Los Angeles Times "for threatening to rip a reporter's head off." Leopold says he quit Dow Jones Newswires in a dispute over his beat but later learned the news service was planning to fire him because of a correction to one of his Enron stories: "Seems I got all of the facts wrong."

Kurtz also suggested an explanation for some of Leopold’s more bizarre actions:

Leopold says he engaged in "lying, cheating and backstabbing," is a former cocaine addict, served time for grand larceny, repeatedly tried to kill himself and has battled mental illness his whole life.

Keep reading here:

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_07_23-2006_07_29.shtml#1153965155

[MadMaddie]

1. Love your name...

Welcome to DU!
:hi:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

2. Thanks!

And if you can believe it, I came up with the name BEFORE Cheney shot an 81 year old man in the face!

[LeftCoast]

3. What? There aren't enough flame-fest in GD tonight? This again?

Please...think of the children.

:)

[Mandate My Ass]

4. Mkayyy

and who are you?? :eyes:

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

6. I'm Cheney Killed Bambi

Or CKB for short ;)

[RB TexLa]

5. I thought all the truthout and/or Leopold threads automatically

went to the Lounge.

[KittyWampus]

7. Actually, It's Scooter Libby Fucked Bambi

[MADem]

10. I thought he poked Bambi with a stick, to excite the beast....

Oh, wait...that was a Japanese bear....

I'm confused!
:rofl:

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Why is this here? This ain't nothing but....

[Dora]

9. Feeling saucy, eh?

:rofl:

[Solo_in_MD]

11. Leopold certainly looks to be in some sort of death spiral

and is taking a few others down with him. Damn shame, as he was once a very credible.