Casey Anthony Look-Alike Says Attack Story is Bogus

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.tmz.com/2011/07/15/casey-anthony-look-alike-sammay-blackwell-attack-car-run-off-road/

[carmaphob]

I wonder why the lady rammed her off the road then?

[acptulsa]

The television station that did that story is the same one that did a smear piece on the libertarian candidate Nate Dahm the very night before the primary election where he challenged Sullivan (OK-1)--then failed to show the piece of propaganda on their website.

I like their weather coverage, but obviously it's past time to boycott KOTV news.

[Anti Federalist]

What the hell...

Thanks for the update, gonna go and update my OP.

Farkin idiots... :-/

[AbVag]

Yes. Thanks for the update. I was attacking the media for this incident and now... nothing's changed, really. Well, except that it's proof that I can still be suckered in by their BS.

[acptulsa]

I know the feeling. When this station did their smear of Nathan Dahm, though, I think I made them regret it. This appeared on the local newsweekly's website on Election Day, and can still be found there:


Dear Mr. Harig:

When I was young, my father and I went 'round and 'round in the evenings. I wanted to watch Channel Six. I considered it more reliable in terms of news than the other stations. My father wanted to watch Don Woods. You see, he considered Mr. Woods more reliable. When Don forecast rain for the weekend, we were off to the lake. When Don forecast fair weather, we canceled the picnic and kept the galoshes close to the front door.
It was an odd sort of "reliability", but it worked for Dad. Now, I see from last night's broadcast, you are playing for the same sort of "reliability". You seem to believe that we will tune in, secure in the knowledge that when you say it's day it will assuredly be night, and when you say it's night it will unquestionably be day.
You said that Nathan Dahm's website was "misleading". Oh, I'm sorry. You didn't say that; you said it was "MISLEADING". Well, I still don't have it right; I seem not to have huge red letters at my disposal. I guess I have a long way to go to become a proper propagandist.
So what was it that was "MISLEADING"? It seems he mentioned that John Sullivan voted for the TARP bailout, and provided one link that proved the assertion (and proved the same about Mary Fallin) and one that showed he voted for something else. So, you pronounced that one link of two "MISLEADING". You didn't, I see, even mention that a link which proved his claim and was in no way "MISLEADING" was right below it.
So this raises the question--is it more "MISLEADING" for a candidate to provide a link which is what he says it is, and another link just as a bonus, or is it more "MISLEADING" to jump on this one link in the finest "gotcha journalism" style in an effort to make people believe that no such bailout vote occured?
For, you see, there is no question that Sullivan (and Fallin) voted to rob from the poor and give to Goldman Sachs (and others). The only questions that remain are, who do you think you're fooling, and is it really a good idea to sacrifice your reputation as a news organization for a piece of Good Advertiser Sullivan's "War Chest"?
Our founding fathers believed that a vigorous and free press was necessary for the maintenance of a democracy. I sincerely hope they were wrong. For if they were right, then there is no hope for democracy in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And I don't know what else to say, except that I hope the fine reputations of Doug Dodd and Clayton Vaughn are in no way tarnished by the fact that the news organization they once worked for has degenerated into a "news organization" and an outlet for pure propaganda.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Could I remind you of the source? I mean this is TMZ, and while they SOMETIMES get scoops on celeb gossip IN THE LA AREA, they just make shit up half the time! They are after ratings.

Also look at the links below the story - they have not done a single other story on the Casey Anthony case or it would be linked there. This is purely opportunistic to give their site traffic and I wouldn't believe it for a second.

[acptulsa]

Great. Two unreliable sources.

Chouteau is a long way to go for a Coke and a conversation with a store clerk. But if this is really that important to you guys...

[pcosmar]

A bit here that may expand on it.
http://www.ktul.com/story/15091067/police-call-casey-anthony


"I later spoke with her {Nalley} and asked her what had happened and why she had done that," says Officer Justin Allen with the Chouteau Police. "All she said was she didn't like people that hurt babies."


In the police report we obtained through Chouteau Police it mentions nothing of Casey Anthony or about looking like Anthony. It does say that Nalley said "I was trying to save the children."


Blackwell says the rumor started when a bystander at the accident scene briefly mentioned to her, maybe she thought you looked like Casey Anthony. Others overheard this statement and the theory spread like wildfire.

"It's like that game telephone the back and forth, it's like I'm talking and people are only listening to what they want to hear or what they think people want to hear," says Blackwell.

[tangent4ronpaul]

A bit here that may expand on it.
http://www.ktul.com/story/15091067/police-call-casey-anthony

Interesting - and this from channel 8. The original 2 sources were channel 6 and 9.

hmmmm.... but a local source that contradicts is more credible.

thanks,

-t

[acptulsa]

Channels six and nine always share stories. They don't share a market.

Channel eight competes with channel six. Both are far closer to Chouteau than channel nine. Sounds to me like one woman thinks the other woman abused a child and couldn't get anyone to do anything about it. Then some third party who overheard the conversation decided it was because of a weak resemblance to someone else, and started yapping.

Channel six has in the past completely failed to impress me with their ability to seperate truth from inuendo. Like in the last primary campaign.

[BlackTerrel]

Blackwell says the rumor started when a bystander at the accident scene briefly mentioned to her, maybe she thought you looked like Casey Anthony. Others overheard this statement and the theory spread like wildfire.

"It's like that game telephone the back and forth, it's like I'm talking and people are only listening to what they want to hear or what they think people want to hear," says Blackwell.

That's how it always starts. It doesn't take much. I feel like news stories change 8 times in the first 48 hours. And the media usually runs with the first thing they hear to "outscoop" the competition rather than waiting to make sure they get their facts straight.

I had a buddy in NYC during 9/11 he says people were saying there were simultaneous attacks in 15 other US cities and that Israel had been nuked repeatedly and basically no longer existed.