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Yeah, as if Dubya was a mental heavy lifter... 
Newsflavor, what a great source (of totally biased BS and propaganda). Ulsterman, the author of the article you cited is an anonymous poster, which no doubt bolsters his credibility (with like-minded lemmings).
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Intro to Ulsterman
For the past several weeks, a writer who goes only by "Ulsterman" has produced a series of interviews with a nameless "White House Insider," who he claims has close access to the inner workings of the Obama Administration. Since the first appearance of the "Insider" in September, "Ulsterman" has published more than a dozen supposed interviews with his own personal Deep Throat.
Some people have completely bought into these stories, while others have been more skeptical.
And for good reason. "Ulsterman" offers no evidence that he's an actual reporter, or that he has any legitimate contacts. The websites that he submits articles to, such as Newsflavor, are for user-submitted content, and have no editorial oversight. He is an anonymous person claiming to interview a second anonymous person. And as time has gone on, more people have begun to believe that the "Insider" is nothing but an attempt at a hoax, as the "interviews" have become increasingly conversational and unprofessional, resembling bad fiction more than actual conversations with a valued asset.
The important question is: can it be proven that "Ulsterman" has made up stories? The answer is: yes. "Ulsterman" has repeatedly made up individual subjects, given them fake jobs and employers, and fabricated whole interviews with these imaginary people.
With "the Washington Insider," he kept his fake person anonymous, so that his fraud couldn't be exposed directly. But in multiple other articles, he wasn't so careful, and he simply presented fiction as if it were news.
In all, "Ulsterman" has used fabricated interviews in at least seven articles he wrote and published between September and November. Four of these articles he has already scrubbed. Below, you will see each of those seven articles exposed as the lie it is.
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The Unbelievable Adventures Of Ulsterman, Super-Journalist
May 04, 2011 3:20 pm ET by Ben Dimiero
Yesterday, noted conspiracist, Islamophobe, and Fox Business regular Pam Geller forwarded an explosive allegation: that the military had "overruled" President Obama's order to abort the Osama bin Laden kill mission. As we detailed, Geller is so committed to trying to make Obama look bad that she was willing to casually accuse the military of essentially committing sedition. (Geller later updated with a second story that contradicted the details of the first.)
Her source for the allegation and the update was an anonymous writer named "Ulsterman," who regularly posts articles at "NewsFlavor" and other sites with user-submitted content. Ulsterman can be found tackling tough issues like whether Julia Roberts has gotten a "boob job" or if "a few more pizzas really account for the considerable increase in her breast size." Of more interest, however, are Ulsterman's series of "interviews" with a "long time D.C. insider" making fantastical allegations about the goings-on in the Obama administration.
Ulsterman's interviews with the "White House Insider" don't pass the smell test.
Here's a snippet of one of the "insider's" answers from an interview Ulsterman published yesterday regarding the bin Laden mission. The "insider" purports to describe the dynamic in the room during the "now famous photo" of Obama and his national security team during the bin Laden raid. Apparently, Obama's national security team just pretended he wasn't there:
Another interesting tidbit regarding this is that the Vice President was already "up to speed" on the operation. A source indicated they believe Hillary Clinton had personally made certain the Vice President was made aware of that day's events before the president was. The now famous photo released shows the particulars of that of that room and its occupants. What that photo does not communicate directly is that the military personnel present in that room during the operation unfolding, deferred to either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates. The president's role was minimal, including their acknowledging of his presence in the room.
And here's another comment from "the insider" from earlier in the interview:
Panetta then made plans to proceed with an on-ground assault. This information reached either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates first (likely via military contacts directly associated with the impending mission) who then informed the other. Those two then met with Panetta, who informed each of them he had been given the authority by the president to proceed with a mission if the opportunity presented itself. Both Gates and Clinton warned Panetta of the implications of that authority - namely he was possibly being made into a scapegoat.
We are supposed to believe this "insider" is privy to the intricate details -- right down to a play-by-play of conversations between the Director of the CIA, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense -- of some of the most important and closely guarded national security meetings in recent history, and chose to share this unvarnished information with an anonymous blogger who writes for a user-submitted content farm?
Last year, Ulsterman published a series of "insider" interviews alleging that there was a scandal of some kind breaking soon -- a scandal so serious that it could only be discussed using clichés. The supposed conversations about this scandal read like high school-level fiction written by someone that has read too many Tom Clancy novels:
Specifically on the White House scandal again - I was told a report was coming soon. Something from a mainstream media outlet. Have you heard something similar? Where did you hear that? Your newspaper days coming back to you now?
Here's just one example, documented by a website committed to detailing Ulsterman's fabrications. Last November, Ulsterman ran an article at Newsflavor about a Mount Royal University "professor" named "Jan Wendt" who had supposedly declared conservatism a "mental illness" in a study that was going to be published in the "Canadian Journal of Naturalism."
However:
There is no Professor Jan Wendt at Mount Royal University. There is also no such publication as the Canadian Journal of Naturalism. If there was, a sociological study on partisan belief would not be published in a naturalism journal.
Jan Wendt is a fictional creation of "Ulsterman," and so are all the quotes he attributes to her. And not only is the interview with her a complete fabrication, but the photograph that "Ulsterman" attached to the "interview" was taken from a stock photo website.
I placed a call to Mount Royal University this morning, and they confirmed that there is no record of a "Jan Wendt" teaching at their institution.
In addition to his "insider" interviews, Ulsterman has published other outlandish stories, including a tale of "Sex and Murder In The Land of Obama" sent to him "via a message to my Facebook account."
Though Ulsterman acknowledged he hadn't been able to verify the details of the story by the time he published, he posted it and decided to let the "readers to determine for themselves the validity of what the author of this story claims to have seen."
The story is a first person account of a young man allegedly walking in on Obama in the middle of a drug-fueled gay sex tryst in a Chicago bathroom. The man Obama was allegedly having sex with was "murdered ten years later shortly after Barack Obama declared he was running for President":
I know what I saw and I know what I heard. I know who I saw. Maybe it was some kind of phase he was going through at the time. Maybe he was experimenting with a different lifestyle. Maybe the death of that man was just a coincidence. I don't know the answers to that. I just know what I know. I just know what I heard and saw.
On that night I heard Barack Obama in that conference room with another man. I saw Barack Obamastep out of that room with another man. I smelled what I think was some kind of drug they were using. And I know that the other man who was in that room with Barack Obama was murdered about ten years later shortly after Barack Obama declared he was running for President of the United States.
That is my story. I hope that you share it. If something happens to me now, you will know why.
After publication, Ulsterman updated with information uncovered by his "Facebook Army" that "would support some of the specific claims" of the original story. Including, apparently, the revelation that the drug smell "would most likely have been 'poppers', a drug that is used predominantly within the gay community":
Since publication, many within the Ulsterman Facebook Army have come forward with evidence that would support some of the specific claims made within the recollection above. The strange smell coming from the conference room would most likely have been "poppers", a drug that is used predominantly within the gay community. Its smell is said to alter quickly from sweet to that of "rank, dirty laundry".
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