Friday, June 12, 2009

After Big Propaganda Splash, Museum Shooter Info Is Scrubbed

Man Accused Of Shooting Museum Guard Vanishes From Internet

"James von Brunn, the man accused of the Wednesday shooting of a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has vanished -- in a way.
"The Washington Post" has discovered nearly every sign of the man has disappeared from the Internet.
A Web site he'd hosted for years spewing hatred for all things Jewish can't be found today though it was easy to Google right after the shooting.
An online piece reportedly written by the alleged shooter titled "Obama Is Missing" and that questioned the citizenship of the President on FreeRepublic isn't there anymore.
Even a Wikipedia user page that the man had edited has been electronically scrubbed.
Some sites, like Wikipedia, say the racist or anti-Semitic remarks that had been posted violated user agreements.
Wikipedia spokesman Jay Walsh is quoted as saying that sort of content is a common reason for a user page or article to be edited or deleted.
He admits the offensive language might never have been discovered if not for the shooting.
It's been said nothing ever truly disappears from the Internet and for the most part that may be true.
Many references to von Brunn can still be found on archival sites like Wayback Machine."

Propagandists understand that splashy yanking-that-emotional-chain type stories have their desired effect even if, days later, facts come out that repudiate the original tale. Retractions will wind up on page 27, meanwhile the impact of the chain pulling story will linger, like how this trigger happy antisemite is conveniently an government hating 9/11 truther.

Maybe too many inconsistancies with this guy, like the website that wasn't his, forced them to cover their tracks. Meanwhile, we await the next antisemitic outrage with bated breath.

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