Tom Flocco Officially Discredited

Do you ever wonder why “conspiracy theorists” and other Internet news services aren’t taken seriously? It’s because of sensationalistic horse’s asses like Tom Flocco, who has yet again put-out completely unsubstantiated information, this time in regard to perjury and obstruction of justice indictments being issued to George Bush, Dick Cheney, Andrew Card, Scooter Libby, John Ashcroft, Mary Matalin, and Alberto Gonzalez. Remarkably, not one other news source in the entire world has come forth with this same information, either in the mainstream or the alternative media - only Tom Flocco. Worse, Flocco has a history of releasing similar news reports, and likewise creating hysterias with absolutely no proof to back them up. The latest example was when he (and others of his ilk) said gay GOP plant Jeff Gannon was actually Johnny Gosch, who was kidnapped when he was nine years old. Of course there hasn’t been a single stitch of actual evidence to support these claims, but from their perspective, why should that bother us? Isn’t conjecture good enough? So, Flocco poisoned the Internet with this crap, appeared on numerous radio talk shows, and essentially duped a wide array of people with this wild goose chase; and he’s been pulling similar stunts for years.

But the problem with this type of “cowboy journalism” extends much deeper than to stooges like Tom Flocco. What really disturbs us at WING TV is how many knee-jerk idiotic trained-monkey fools ran with this obviously absurd 'indictment story' and posted it across the Internet and on message boards. They did this, of course, with no corroborating evidence, no sourcing, and no verification. They simply spread the lies like wildfire; and thus, in effect, discredited the entire alternative media in the process. This, regrettably, is what they call disinformation. So, all I can say to everyone who took part in this nonsense is: you should be ashamed of yourselves. By falling hook-line-and-sinker for this ruse, you made us all look bad --- so STOP IT!

On the other hand, all I can say to Tom Flocco is: what’s wrong with you? Are you so needy and desperate for attention and traffic on your website that you have to periodically spew this garbage across the ‘Net? As far as I’m concerned, you’re now officially discredited, and every word you print in the future should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

Luckily, people like Chris Emery, Peter Meyer, Lisa Guliani’s New World Order Corner, and APFN looked into this matter and discovered that it stunk to high heaven and didn’t add up (hence, they did some legwork). That’s the difference between them (real journalists), and those who shoot from the hip and didn’t check a damn thing. I mean, to all those who disseminated Flocco’s b.s., I shouldn’t have to say this, but start using some discretion before you pass information around the Internet. What if Flocco wrote a story next week saying that the Earth stopped turning? Would you buy that one too without question?

Here’s the bottom line: I hear everyone complaining about not getting enough respect from the mainstream media; but if you want respect, you have to act like you deserve it. You can’t “earn” it by being bamboozled. This entire Tom Flocco debacle was an embarrassment, and we need to do better – much better.