Huffington has someone claiming Hickey did it...

[Jan Klimkowski]

Two other functions of this operation:

To test the shelf life of broad dismissals of previously proffered False Sponsor gambits.

To determine just how much bullshit is, for the people and their media, too much bullshit.

Indeed.

Sadly, for the people and their media, the answer is that there can never be enough steaming ordure.

Jan, you are undoubtedly correct to point to all of this as planned distraction, but in my view, to ask someone to buy this silly "accident" scenario is even more an insult to one's intelligence than the great Specter fabrication. I mean, what are the odds of making that kind of shot to the head by an accidental discharge? Even Dick Cheney couldn't do it. But I suppose as long as we even pay attention to this bilge, they've accomplished their mission.

Albert - as a journalist I can write copy for a broadsheet or a tabloid.

As a filmmaker, I've directed documentaries for the mass audience of BBC1 and the tiny rarefied audience of BBC4, with some garbage NatGeo and mendacious Discovery in between.

I worked on many episodes of the world's most intellectual and highbrow science documentary programme, BBC2's Horizon. There were some rules which were set in stone, passed down from the mythical "Golden Age of Television":

1) in a fifty-minute documentary, even an intellectual audience can only assimilate three new facts;

2) whenever a new fact is introduced, it should be subject to the Rule of Three Repeats, eg the narrator articulates the new information, a contributor repeats it in their own words, the narrator underlines the point.

There are many who still believe Greer shot JFK, a nonsense promulgated and cast out here at DPF.