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Putting food on the table?

Submitted July 13, 2006 - 7:52 pm by Al Giordano
Jules,

A reader just sent me this link...

http://www.myleftwing.com/showComment.do?commentId =131545

So, since six a.m., according to that link, you've been dogging another English-language reporter who is uncovering the electoral fraud in Mexico, Greg Palast, with one set of arguments (calling him racist and doing your Mr. Mexico Know-It-All act against someone who doesn't live here, something that you've had the sense not to attempt here), and then you come over here with a whole different set of silly arguments.

You seem to be on a one-man spin and disinfo campaign to detour the critical international press (those of us who are actually investigating, not just debating) that questions authority.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if this is how you are "putting food on the table." It does seem to be your full-time job these days, and not just here.

(Here comes the "he questioned my integrity!" rant: Yep, I'm doing that now: nobody's integrity is above questioning, no matter how much they huff and puff, and putting out false "voices of the left" to the English-speaking world is a tactic used against democracy in Venezuela, why not here, too? Maybe Mexico now has its very own version of Phil Gunson or Erik Ekvall!).

That you spend all your time - since six a.m.! - doing this instead of actual reporting and investigating - skills that you used to have - speaks volumes about the dishonesty of your claim that you don't rebut facts because you don't have time.

But, lo and behold, your signature is all over the Internet (not just here or on the "My Left Wing" blog, but also on Daily Kos and Alternet - where else have we missed it? - ever since the election), on the same Johnny-One-Note crusade of defending IFE and the current Mexican government and opposing a full recount.

At least Palast and I are also doing real reporting in between indulging your insincere questions. But evidently you're just on a kamikaze disinfo mission. Which brings me back to one of my original points when you started this two weeks ago: you are betrayed, most of all, by your own sloth. I hope stalking authentic journalists, at least, pays well. But shouldn't the work rightfully go to a Mexican?

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