Another political attack found to be hoax

If this isn't another sign that the right-wing media is full of fucking liars, what is?

A few days ago, Rupert Murdoch's right-wing New York Post reported that a man who was asking tough questions of Laura and Jenna Bush at a book promotion punched a wheelchair-bound teenager because the teen's parents told him to pipe down. This version of the story was repeated endlessly by the wingnutosphere and Faux News.

I knew it didn't happen this way. I just flat-out knew it. I was 100% certain of it, because stuff like this always turns out to be made up. Always. Whenever someone claims to be a victim of a politically motivated assault by someone who dissents from the Bush order, it's a fake. We all remember the Parlock incidents, the teen in Texas who faked an attack over the poster about immigration, Katherine Harris playing in the street so she could claim she got run over, and so on.

My belief has now been confirmed: The assault didn't happen. The New York Post lied. I'd be surprised if the New York Post was ever used as a source for any of my entries on this blog (because it's such a biased rag), but if it wasn't blackballed already, it is now.

The alleged assault was in essence a hoax. According to witnesses, the man who interrogated the Bushes was actually punched by the teen's dad. So the questioner is actually an assault victim, not a perp.

The long and short of it is, the man who questioned the Bushes didn't attack the teenager who had cerebral palsy (despite what the New York Post claimed). People who know the man say he would never do anything violent. The person who is at fault here is the teen's father, who used the wheelchair as a weapon. It's a shame there was a confrontation at all, but the disabled teen was drawn into it by her own father, and there's no excuse for it.

The wingnuts who inhabit the blogosphere lapped up the New York Post's version of the incident, even though they knew it was full of shit. Although they certainly knew that the activist who interrogated the Bushes was innocent of the alleged assault, they urged violent retribution against him.

Is it any surprise that in a 2004 survey, the Post was ranked as the least credible major news organization in the entire New York City area?

(Source: http://www.infowars.com/?p=1704;
http://www.infowars.com/?p=1718)