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Brown had been shot in the back of his head before his plane crashed in Croatia, killing all
thirty-five aboard.
HANNITY: Chris, welcome back. Let's-you know, by the way, Chris, you know that
Mike McCurry, in a recent interview, singled you out as one of the people that-the
haters of Bill Clinton, if you will. You have this report about Ron Brown that you've
been going forward with. Medical examiners, including Lieutenant Colonel
Cogswell, that he may have been shot. You're just reporting these things. Why
would the spokesperson for the President single you out as – quote—one of those
"haters"?
RUDDY: Well, I think it's a great honor to be declared an enemy.
Hannity failed to point out that Colonel William T. Gormley, the Air Force pathologist who
(unlike Cogswell) had actually examined Brown's body, said that "there is no doubt in anybody's
mind who evaluated his case that this was a blunt-force injury and not a gunshot
wound." X rays of the corpse showed no bone or metal fragments, no exit wound, and no bullet.
And besides, the logic of shooting someone before crashing their plane escapes me.
Though I will concede it does bear a highly suspicious resemblance to the earlier case of the
teens who were stabbed before being run over by a train.
Which is perhaps why FNC's Brit Hume said of the Ron Brown shooting-crashingdying
conspiracy, "It's a story that's worth giving airtime to." And given airtime on Fox and
ink in the Washington Times, the story inevitably made its way into the mainstream media
(New York Times, Washington Post, Time, and ABC News) if only in reporting, as Newsweek
put it, "The Life and Times of a Rumor."
Though outraged at Clinton's unquenchable thirst for murder, it was his career as a serial
rapist which provided the bitterest grist for the right-wing rumor mill. "Who cares if our
president is a molester, a rapist, even a serial rapist?" Joseph Sobran inquired rhetorically of
Washington Times readers. The influential website NewsMax.com, available to most Americans
thanks to Al Gore's visionary funding of the Internet, explained in their probing storybehind-the
story, "Bill's Biting Ways," why Clinton nearly bit Juanita Broaddrick's lower lip
in two while raping her.
Bill O'Reilly deplored not only Clinton's alleged rape of Broaddrick, but also the
mainstream media's rape of the American public in failing to report the alleged rape. In a
2001 interview with Media Week, O'Reilly declared that the Los Angeles Times was an abys-