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Rebel post mortem
June 24, 2005 |
The Star covers the Pitch’s made up shit hoax from Wednesday, which was a reaction to Governor Blunt’s order to fly the Confederate flag at a veterans cemetary last month. Sounds like west coast import Tony Ortega was shocked and befuddled to learn that rebel sympathies persist in border states like Missouri.
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Not one mention of Heidi, who was the first to uncover the fake story. Damn, it’s so clear that they used her work as a resource. Sad. Still, blogging rules, readers of local blogs had all this info yesterday.
I’ll be giving Heidi credit, you can be sure.
TKC, thanks, but I don’t see anything in the Star story that they would have gotten from my post that they wouldn’t have been able to think of on their own. It, um…wasn’t that hard. I was getting frustrated when I saw discussion on kcskyscrapers.com that night belaboring something that I thought should have been obvious or if not, very easily discredited in any number of ways. So I’m not exactly losing sleep about getting “credit.”