Amy Chozick was the author of "Is Obama too Fit to be President?" in last weeks Wall Street Journal. Remember the WSJ was bought by Fox a few months ago. Turns out she did her research in a thread she started on Yahoo message boards on July 15th.
She started a thread on Yahoo message boards asking if Obama was too skinny to be president on July 15th. She used responses in her thread for sources in her article:
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/...
And now we get to see what separates the rest of us from Real Professional Journalists. Chozick writes:
"I won't vote for any beanpole guy," [a] Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board.
What Chozick doesn't tell you is that this wasn't a spontaneous online expression of anti-thinness contempt -- a couple of weeks ago, Chozick herself started the thread in which that message appeared. This is called "research." (UPDATE: The thread has been deleted, but, via Sadly, No!, here's the cached version. FURTHER UPDATE: screenshots of cached versions are at the end of this post)
Sadly, No, has the full story.
Here is the Google Cache for the thread she started.
And here's the real kicker, here is a conversation between the author of the smear job on Obama, and a user named onlinebeerbellygirl
Yes I think He is to skinny to be President.Hillary has a potbelly and chuckybutt I'd of Voted for Her.I won't vote for any beanpole guy.
-onlinebeerbellygirl
Love your response and your username (onlinebeerbellygirl). Would you mind shooting me an email so I can ask you a few more quesitons? My email is amy.chozick@gmail.com. Thanks so much!
-Amy
Disgusting.
Update [2008-8-4 11:52:29 by JohnAdams999]:
Turns out the user onlinebeerbellygirl was created the same day Amy Chozick created the article. onlinebeerbellygirl only posted in that thread and has since never logged in. A google search of onlinebeerbellygirl only turns up that thread. Is it possible Amy Chozick is onlinebeerbellygirl as well?