FOX Frantically Spinning Michael Wilson E-Mail

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Thursday June 16, 2005 · 12:17 PM PDT

2005/06/16 · 12:17

This afternoon, I was treated to seeing FOX News trying to revive the the Texas Oil-fo-Food Scandal and turn it back into the "UN Oil-for-Food Scandal" without mentioning the fact that the biggest beneficiaries were not Frenchies or Russkies or UN officials, but Texas oilmen and their employees.

FOX was spinning a certain e-mail from a now-former-VP of a company as Proof Positive that United Nations Secretary General and Known Black Man, Kofi Annan, had somehow discussed a contract Annan's son had received with that company, which somehow meant... something. FOX didn't quite say what, but they implied great evils concocted by dark-skinned furriners.

But of course, the truth is, ahem, a good deal different. (More after the jump.)

In today's issue of the daily paper The Scotsman, Michael Wilson, the guy who wrote the e-mail FOX is now clutching to its bosom, says categorically that he never met with Kofi Annan to discuss the contract that Annan's son got.

In other words, there's no real proof as yet that Annan or his son did anything wrong, but there's gobs of evidence -- and indictments -- against David Bay Chalmers and Bayoil of Houston, Texas.

Yet you'll see nothing but Kofi on FOX today, and nary a mention of Chalmers or Bayoil.

Gee, I wonder why?

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