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Toronto Sun Attacks Canada Free Press



Strange things happen on the Internet when the mainstream media gets involved. Today the mighty Toronto Sun’s website (Canoe.ca) tried to write off a story written by Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Doug Hagmann on May 8.

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“A conservative lawmaker in Tennessee has apologized for reportedly passing along a fringe Canadian media rumour that U.S. President Barack Obama is planning to fake an assassination attempt to keep the November election from happening. (QMI Agency, (French and English Canada’s leading news reference) August 1, 2012).”Kelly Keisling, a Republican in the state legislature, reportedly forwarded the e-mail from his official state legislature account Tuesday morning with the heading, “FW: Unbelievable election rumor.” “The rumour in question--which first appeared on canadafreepress.com--states that Obama and the Department of Homeland Security are planning “a series of events” that may lead to “martial law” being imposed and delay the election.” “While the original article appears to be removed from Canada Free Press, The Constitution Party of Canada quotes it liberally on their website, noting it “has potential” and is “worth spreading”. Wrong on two counts. The May 8 article by Hagmann is archived on the CFP website and had never been removed. There is no Constitution Party of Canada. There is a Constitution Party of Florida, and Bingo--writer Joe Angione, a former columnist for the Villages Daily Sun has an article posted there, headlined ‘Obama election Rumor’, dated July 30th. The headline of Angione’s piece ‘Obama election Rumor’ differs from CFP’s ‘The Planned Re-election of Obama, Revolutionary Style’. And that’s just for starters. Angione uses words in his article that never appeared in the CFP article, or on Hagmann’s own website, where the May 8 article also appeared. “The faked assassination, says the CFP report, would be carried out through the assistance of DHS agents, and other colluders”. The words “faked assassination through the assistance of DHS agents and other colluders” were not written by Hagmann and do not appear in the CFP article. The CFP article, posted on May 8 has been picked by countless other websites where those words also do not exist. Proving it is easy. All readers would have to do would be to google Hagmann’s May 8 piece by its CFP headline. In fact the only person to use the words “faked assassination” was Joe Angione two days ago. The reason why Kelly Keisling first forwarded the CFP article, and then apologized for it, is unknown. Perhaps the conservative lawmaker could give us a call. Nor do we know why Sun Media would attack CFP as “fringe” or untruthfully claim we had taken the story down. Even the Sun’s headline ‘Tennessee pol promotes, then apologizes for Canadian-born Obama conspiracy’, is inaccurate. Doug Hagmann is an American. The Toronto Sun story calling Canada Free Press “fringe” has been picked up this evening by The Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun, Ottawa Sun and the Winnipeg Sun. Meanwhile, this former Toronto Sun columnist would like to think Sun Media would apologize for their errors, but won’t hold her breath while waiting.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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