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CTKA-Probe Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 03:41 PM
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Gerald Posner Done For Plagiarism! Surprise Surprise!!!!
Gerald Posner is a substandard Journalist, yes thats the call from his colleagues at the Daily Beast where he writes.

http://www.slate.com/id/2244430/

It may be news to some but its no big deal to those involved with assassination research. His appalling tome Case Closed was an hilarious attempt at nailing the crime on Oswald the lone gunman.

Now what ever stripe you wear, it is advised you look at these articles before proceeding down the dark road that is the Kennedy assassination.

http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/

Now while it is silly to say anybody with an opposing point of view to the above is government, sadly it is very hard to tell. Take Operation Mockingbird.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm

How about the Obama administration wanting to infiltrate subversive groups. Yes, this is the Dems!

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-staffer-infiltration-911-groups/

What this does of course is make people with no agenda but a simple difference of opinion look suspicious. It causes distrust and drowns out legitimate calls against bad researchers of which the CTKA tries its utmost not to represent. I hope that this post is informative and brings some good discussion to what is an increasingly important issue.






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orwell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 03:50 PM
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1. I went to High School with this clown...
...in San Francisco. He was a twerp then and he is a twerp now.

He was the head of the debating club...no offense to debating clubs.
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CTKA-Probe Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 04:35 PM
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2. Thats hilarious.
So he was disliked then?
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 05:53 PM
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5. Picture, pleeeease!
Do you have your yearbook handy?
I could use a good laugh.
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CTKA-Probe Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 09:25 PM
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6. That would be priceless!
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Don Caballero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 05:02 PM
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3. Troubling news.
Does not diminish his research into the assassination of JFK. I hope this isn't used by the JFK conspiracy theorists as some sort of victory. They are the true losers in all this.
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CTKA-Probe Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 05:32 PM
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4. Oh really Yawn!!!!!!!
Edited on Tue Feb-16-10 05:50 PM by CTKA-Probe
Have a look on the net and see where Gerald wound up in terms of JFK.

Major FAIL that is all bar John McAdams. Even Dave Perry has problems with the guy!

Oh and by the way I heard a dirty rumor that by being caught ripping off other peoples work and not crediting their efforts, has meant that it casts doubt on anything one has done previously! Boy, hows them apples!
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Copepod Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 04:42 PM
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7. altered quotes
Looks like Posner altered/falsified quotes in the material he plagiarized.
I'm relatively uninterested/agnostic on the JFK stuff myself. But Posner's falsification of quotes in his Daily Beast articles calls into question the validity of his reporting in the rest of his work (e.g. Case Closed).
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CTKA-Probe Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-22-10 10:38 PM
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8. Hey I dig that man its agnotics on the case like you that ask the best questions
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