Iran's Supreme Leader dead?

[Scurrilous]

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Reported Dead

"A source close to Pajamas Media has learned that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has apparently succumbed to the cancer that hospitalized him last month, as exclusively reported by Pajamas Media, at age 67. He has been Iran’s most powerful figure since replacing Ayatollah Khomeini in the role of Supreme Leader in 1989."

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/01/supreme_leader_ayatollah_ali_k.php


Is this credible?

All I know about pajamasmedia is that it's run by the same guy who does the right-wad hate-site littlegreenfootballs.

[Straight Shooter]

1. If true, the news will be all over the media soon enough.

Who is the "source close to Pajamas Media"? Karl Rove?

[Dr.Phool]

4. Even worse. It's Jeff Gannons new outfit.

He tried to interview a Senator (Durbin?) a few months back and said he was with Pajmas Media. Durbin said, "I've never heard of you". Guckert Butt-boy replied, "You will".

[seemslikeadream]

6. That's Karl Rove's brain

Ledeen. No kidding

[Straight Shooter]

7. Ledeen?

Oh, jeez. Part of the "we create reality" warmongers.

[Kagemusha]

2. If the news is "exclusively" reported that's pretty suspicious

We'll find out soon enough.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Oh my. Pajamas Media. Hmmmm

I had to look them up. Well that didn't take long.

"Pajamas Media, briefly known as Open Source Media, is a startup company founded in 2004 by mystery writer and Huffington Post blogger Roger L. Simon and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs "with the intention of... aggregating blogs to increase corporate advertising and creating our own professional news service," <1>, as well as "a new method of fact-checking." <2>"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamas_Media

The key words there are Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs. 'nuff said.

Well not quite enough "a new method of fact-checking" LGF style would be "we make shit up".

[mcctatas]

5. I am stunned, I find out Gannon works for an outlet called

Pajamas media, and I can't come up with a single smartass remark;)

[Scurrilous]

8. More:

Poopy Pajamas

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcott/2007/01/im_enjoying_thi.html


Real journalist + fake journalist = no journalisming.

"PJM in Hollywood (which is just another name for themanwhocreatedmoseswine) is scurrying about trying to create the appearance that Bananas In Pajamas Media is so a real journalistic enterprise with scoops and banner headlines and Marmaduke cartoons and guys wearing fedoras with a little Press card stuck in the band.

And while the MSM is preoccupied with so-called "facts" and "eyewitness reports" and other trivia, BIPM goes after the hard-hitting rumors that are wafting about in Michael Ledeens neo-cobwebby head."

http://tbogg.blogspot.com/

[XOKCowboy]

9. Glenn Greenwald has it here in a hilarious article

UPDATE IX: The entity that calls itself "Pajamas Media" thought it had scored some sort of great coup when it landed Michael Ledeen of National Review and the American Enterprise Institute -- who has devoted his life to insisting that the U.S. change the regime in Iran -- as a Pajamas Media commentator.

And yesterday, Pajamas thought the prestigious "signing" had begun to yield big, big dividends, when they announced, based on Ledeen's "source close to Pajamas Media," that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had died -- a "fact" which nobody else had reported. And a day later, still nobody else has. Ledeen yesterday wrote: "Breaking News. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, is dead." Pajamas itself touted it as its breaking story.

As Malkin's Hot Air said: "This is either going to be a two-ton feather in Pajamas’s cap or a major embarrassment." A day later, nobody else has reported this. Today, Iran denied the "Internet rumor," and as James Wolcott notes (read his whole post for the real story), Pajamas Media is backing away as fast as their little rumor-mongering legs can carry them. As Wolcott says, comparing this to the Jamil Hussein debacle: "there's another potential fiasco belching in the furnace of the right blogosphere perhaps birthing an even bigger embarrassment of riches."

Read the article here http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/ . It's about how the RW Bloggers have been habitually wrong. Lots of Malkin bashing too. Gotta love it.

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10. Great article.

Thanks for posting. :thumbsup: