Sentences with phrase «fake memo»

The phrase "fake memo" refers to a document or message that is created with the intention to deceive or mislead others. It is not genuine or truthful and may be fabricated to trick people into believing something that is untrue. Full definition
Yeah, I read the Otto analysis and it was worthless because most of what was in the allegedly fake memo was more or less culled (if it's fake) from real Heartland documents which are mostly written by Joe Bast.
This doesn't answer the question of where the supposedly fake memo came from, and we should not point accusatory fingers without solid evidence.
He also did not expressly confirm that that fake memo in the package of materials that he distributed, had not been authored by him.
I hypothesize it's possible that he may have created the fake memo, in a panicked rush, in an attempt to cover up the pretexting but still keep himself in the story.
Heartland repeatedly has asked «Forecast the Facts» and other environmental groups, bloggers, and liberal advocacy groups to take the fake memo off their Web sites and retract false and defamatory statements based on it.
This claim is based on an online petition created by «Forecast the Facts» that recycled false claims drawn from the fake memo at the center of the Fakegate scandal.
We regret the loss of their support, particularly since it was prompted by false claims contained in a fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist Peter Gleick.
I had assumed that this whole thing must have been a Dan Rather episode, with someone feeding Gleick the fake memo or at least the makings of it.
The author of the fake memo had to be in possession of the actual documents.
Richard Black of the BBC replied to a complainant about his article based upon the fake memo: «The one Heartland claims to be a fake has its contents duplicated in the other seven.
On February 14, 2012, an environmental activist named Peter Gleick sent to liberal activists and sympathetic journalists several documents he stole from The Heartland Institute, along with a fake memo he claimed was also from Heartland.
BTW I am convinced that Gleick was the author of the fake memo and that we haven't reached bottom on this story yet.
Gleick denied he was the author of the fake memo.
When presented with the fact that he may have published a fake memo, Revkin wrote:
The person who wrote this fake memo almost had to be an alarmist, and probably was of the middling, more junior sort, the type of person who does not craft the talking points but is a recipient of them and true believer.
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