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August 01, 2005

Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?

I've been a bit out of the loop, so I hadn't heard about this until this morning.

Bloggers scavenging the Internet in July for scandals about Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. thought they had red meat. On July 20, Secrecy News, a Web publication of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, reported that Judge Roberts was involved in the Iran-Contra affair.

New Media had bested Old Media again. Secrecy News uncovered chinks in Mr. Roberts's armor that NBC, ABC, CBS, the New York Times and The Washington Post had missed.

It was a sensational scoop and bloggers quickly circulated it. The Daily Kos.com reprinted portions of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's final report about Mr. Roberts's role in the Iran-Contra affair. Democrats were salivating.

One small problem. It was the wrong John Roberts.

I don't care who you are, that's funny.

The correct John Roberts has all the details here.

Posted by Rita at August 1, 2005 05:11 AM

Comments

He may also have been implicated in the Lincoln assassination. I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at August 1, 2005 06:41 PM

I tell you, if they're having this hard of a time finding anything on Roberts, he must be a pretty good feller. Or a rilly careful one.

The whole thing has been just cracking me up.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 3, 2005 04:32 AM