I posted this on the David Icke forum

There was a fairly lengthy story about the group in tonight's Yorkshire Evening Post but, as you would expect, the impartial 'journalist' who they met decided to interject his own opinion into the interview, contrary to established journalistic practices

Here's a few snippets:

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Headline: Is the truth out there?

Hmm, UFO rhetoric, just a coincidence? What have WYTruth got to do with UFO's? Nothing

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They might even insist on first talking in code to establish who I am before agreeing to divulge any further information.

Why might they do that? They're not Russian spies

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"This notion that people in Government would never do this, unfortunately evidence states otherwise," says Richard, perhaps spotting that my eyebrows are somewhere in the vicinity of my hairline ...

He goes on to mention how George W Bush's grandfather belonged to the American Liberty League, which was accused of plotting to overthrow President Franklin D Roosevelt and install a fascist-style government.

But it's a bit of a red herring as the claims were subsequently discounted and no prosecutions followed.

Looking at the language this journalist uses, it's clear he "researched" this by typing American Liberty League into Wikipedia. Had he looked even at the Wikipedia entry for The Business Plot, he'd have seen there was more to this story than his simple-minded research suggests

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"It (Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century (2000)) says one of the things that will hasten this process will be a new Pearl Harbour and that's what Bush referred to 9/11 as in his diary the day after it happened."

Sounds like a bit of a coincidence to me

You're supposed to interviewing other people, not yourself, why is your opinion relevant?

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I ask them what their wives or girlfriends think of their theories.
Both men say they're single

They must be wrong then

Good analysis, showing how a superficially fair article is in fact loaded with just a few little trigger remarks.