Hugo Chavez was a convenient ally for Hollywood liberals (”useful idiots” as Lenin called such tools) when they wanted a worldwide media platform to broadcast their political views. However Sean Penn, Harry Belafonte and others aren’t looking so good these days and every time an anti-Chavez protester is arrested or killed they look quite a […]

The day after his re-election, there is speculation that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s next race will be for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat in 2010.
Which would be a shame, since it would mean that the Independent Sources - owned domain boxer2016.com will have no value. Because we don’t see America’s Most Annoying Senator (r) winning that race.
There […]

From Pirate Ballerina comes word that if you lied to get your teaching position, plagiarized while on the job, and pretty much have no place on a campus, that with a great deal of effort and legal fees (probably in the millions), you can actually lose your job.
CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano:
I have carefully reviewed […]

CU’s Standing Committee on Research Misconduct has made its recommendations to the provost. SCRM voted 6-3 to recommend Churchill’s dismissal, with the minority voting to recommend suspension. (From Pirate Ballerina).

Excerpts from the report:
The Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted the conclusions of the Investigative Committee that […]

Securities class action firm Milberg Weiss is in the news again (as in, the law firm that might be indicted for conspiracy — that Milberg Weiss). And this Milberg Weiss:
Fraud-Tainted Law Firm Is #1 Source of Law Biz Contributions To Barbara Boxer
Many Democrats Received Funds From Law Firm Targeted By Grand Jury
Milberg Weiss announced […]

The University of Colorado report on Ward Churchill’s research misconduct is out. The investigating committee unanimously found that Churchill committed deliberate falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism in his published work.
A three member majority of the five member panel thought Churchill’s conduct egregious enough to warrant revocation of tenure, and dismissal; of them, two recommended a five […]

The line above is from Stefan Eriksson (the man behind the high profile destruction of the Ferrari Enzo in Malibu) and not Patrick Kennedy, but in trying to deflect responsibility for his drug/alcohol-related accident Rep. Kennedy did everything but blame ‘Dietrich‘ (the phantom Enzo driver that Eriksson fingered while he thought that Malibu Sheriffs […]

California’s most obnoxious elected official, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, announced that she is introducing a bill that would require new federal government cars to achieve a minimum 45 mpg. Her bill would provide incentives for states to follow suit. Expect California to jump on that bandwagon.
Will we see a Hummer-less Governator on the campaign trail […]

The Los Angeles Times has disciplined sock-puppeteer columnist Michael Hiltzik.
For traditional media, his crime was pseudonymous posting. That was the gist of most of the published stories about the controversy, including the initial reports in his own paper. And that got wrapped up in LAT ethics policy (”We do not misrepresent ourselves and we do […]

LA Observed is reporting:

Editors at the Los Angeles Times have stripped Michael Hiltzik of his Golden State column in the Business section and suspended him as punishment for posting anonymous arguments on his blog and those of critics. He also loses the blog and will be reassigned to unspecified duties after his suspension, via a […]

The silence from the LAT camp on the status of Michael Hiltzik is deafening.

But that hasn’t’ stopped Independent Sources from learning the top ten excuses Hiltzik is considering:
1. “NoFAnOfCableCos” is a nickname not a pseudonym.
2. Like any good reporter, I will never divulge my anonymous pseudonyms.
3. “These are not the droids we’re looking for.”
4. Robert […]

In his post last week exposing the Los Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik as a self promoting sock pupeteer, Patterico noted that “Mikekoshi,” one of Hiltzik’s presumed aliases, has commented at Kevin Drum’s blog at the Washington Monthly.
An interesting fact that Patterico missed: if you go to this February 2005 comment, the email address associated with […]

Hugh Hewitt points us to this Online Journalism Review interview of the Los Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik. The piece went up last Monday, prior to Patterico’s outing Hiltzik’s use of pseudonymous users to talk up his LAT blog.
OJR: Does your blog go through an editing process? And, if so, what’s that like?
Hiltzik: No.
OJR: No?
Hiltzik: No, […]

After visitors to Amazon.com view Michael Hiltzik’s recent book “The Plot Against Social Security : How the Bush Plan Is Endangering Our Financial Future,” what do they do?
5% buy “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild”

Appropriate, no? And perhaps there’s a need for a new chapter …
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Fortunately for Hiltzik, none of the customer reviews are from mikekoshi […]

As LA Observed noted, we are not sure what to read into the absence of Michael Hiltzik’s usual business section column but it was not there this morning.

Meanwhile the Hiltzik scandal is spreading with stories in Slate, NYT, and another in Washington Post.
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