ABC has pulled a job of journalistic malfeasance that may top the unsubstantiated lies that justifiably cost Dan Rather his job. The story accused then Governor Mike Huckabee of pardoning Wayne Dumond who then went on to commit another rape.

The story was completely false. Dumond was not pardoned, he was parolled- a huge difference. The parole board, independent of Huckabee, was appointed by governors Bill Clinton and his democratic successor Jim Guy Tucker. He was up for parole because Jim Guy Tucker reduced his sentence.

“The parole board is an independent entity that used its constitutional power to secure Dumond’s release. In Arkansas, the Governor has no vote or say in this process.” Yet Huckabee did side with his release because of evidence released such as no evidence of his DNA at the scene, no match from the semen on the victim, and the fact that the victim’s account and the evidence were at odds. This was ommitted from the story.

Furthermore Dumond was assaulted in his house, hogtied and castrated, with his testicles displayed in a jar on the desk of Sheriff Conlee. While this is not evidence that would lead to a parole, it is certainly germane to the story that there was some credibility to the action. Not included in the ABC story.

It may have been worth noting that the original victim was a cousin of Bill Clinton. Apparently not to ABC.

I have no opinion of Mike Huckabee. And I understand that people in office who do make decisions will always have some mistakes that could be used against them.

But ABC’s bias and shoddy journalism is a disgrace. They got the original story from Ariana Huffington’s blog which is about as biased as one can get. They obviously failed to do even minimal fact checking. It is conceivable that a bias may have alerted them to the story, but it was just piss poor journalism that allowed them to run such a pack of lies and distortion.

See the whole story at http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/cherry/12072007.htm

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