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Good Morning, Hannah Baldock

Submitted August 16, 2004 - 8:47 am by Al Giordano
Now, the mopping up begins... as our first mop, we use the fifty-dollar haircut on the five-dollar head that is Independent of London correspondent Hannah Baldock.

Of course, after publishing a knowingly false, unsourced, uncited claim last night that Chávez had lost the referendum according to so-called "exit polls" that she did not have the journalistic fortitude to identify, she might not be the Independent's correspondent any more...

After Narco Newsman Ron Smith led the charge, and readers flooded the Independent with letters of complaint, the Independent did something unprecedented: It removed an article from its website!

Message to Hannah: There is a way out of hell! You must come clean right now - that means today! - and tell the world who your unnamed sources were for such false (and also illegal, under Venezuelan election law) claims.

By any chance were his initials Eric Ekvall, the disgraced former political consultant to disgraced former president Carlos Andres Peres, who lost his consulting sinecure at the state oil company when Chávez came to power?

Just a hunch!

Come clean Hannah!

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