Questions first raised in a blog-based investigation of the Abotech affair involving Liberal MP David Smith are continuing to find traction in the main stream media.
In this case, the Ottawa Citizen is running a lengthy article reporting on questions being raised by the NDP candidate in David Smith’s riding of Pontiac, Quebec. The questions are about the legitimacy of David Smith’s claim to aboriginal status. Céline Brault gives credit to the report by Julie Murray and Steve Janke (aka Angry in the Great White North) appearing in the November 25 edition of the West Quebec Post for raising this issue.
Read the whole thing.
Congratulations, Angry, for showing the MSM how it’s done. This is a story without a quick punchline; it required a lot of inference and intelligence to get to the bottom of it. Diligence, too. This result — MSM traction, as you put it — couldn’t come at a better time.
There is a downside, though — you can forget about your Senate seat.
I agree. Congrats to Angry. Now let’s see if it makes it onto the evening news.
Wanna bet, it doesn’t?
Angry:
Good work. BZ.