CNN’s URL for Pentagon video: “wagmydog” (update: hoax)
posted at 4:13 pm on May 16, 2006 by Allahpundit
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I love it when they’re caught red-handed. Rob Port at Say Anything is the man to thank.
Update: Ian Schwartz of Expose the Left points out that you can enter any text you like in the URL after the question mark and it’ll still point to that page. Sounds like Rob might have been hoaxed. Standby for details…
Update: Rob e-mails to say he got the link off Fark. Surely a hoax, then. Apologies to CNN — although, in our defense, it’s not like that sort of thing hasn’t happened before.
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Shock! CNN?
Brian on May 16, 2006 at 4:25 PM
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Grouper on May 16, 2006 at 4:31 PM
Anyone know what the ‘C’ in CNN stands for? It must be ‘COLORFUL!’ Yes, that’s it, it stands for colorful.
As in PINKo for broadcasting left wing propaganda, WHITE for waving flags of surrender, YELLOW for cowardice, BLACK for humor, RED for CNN executives’ face color after (now two) ‘accidental broadcast mistakes’ invloving Bush [remember the big, black 'X?'], and GREEN for my face color after watching a CNN broadcast. . .
The only credibility aired on the network is Lou Dobbs — who brings a refreshing breath of frank truth to an otherwise stagnant, boring, biased media environment.
ForYourEdification on May 16, 2006 at 4:34 PM
It’s. A. HOAX.
Allahpundit on May 16, 2006 at 4:35 PM
Posted and retracted in 20 minutes. Nicely done, Allah. Meanwhile, over at TruthOut, Rove has still been indicted.
If anyone sees Leopold’s coke dealer, would they have him tell Jason to call in with an update. Or, maybe the names of those sources he was going to expose…
Pablo on May 16, 2006 at 4:38 PM
CNN ought to be careful. All the “mistakes” they have made, I can see TONY SNOW pulling their credentials for not being a responsible and legitimate news organization.
Wait to see!!!
dallas94 on May 16, 2006 at 5:55 PM
CNN: The C stands for
birdman on May 16, 2006 at 7:37 PM
woops sorry, CNN: The C stands for CRAP…
birdman on May 16, 2006 at 7:38 PM
It is not a hoax. Whoever submitted it to FARK added ?wagmydog to defeat the bad kitty.
Rob Port, without knowing how URLs work or much about Fark, takes this link from Fark, and doesn’t look at the Fark comments where like in 7 minutes people are laughing at “?wagmydog”
_Monk_ on May 16, 2006 at 7:43 PM
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