It's irritating that two myths about the MeCHA/Patriot incident have been so widely repeated.

From the Wall Street Journal's website:

SCHOOLS FOR SCANDAL: Each April Fools' Day, the Collegiate Network (www.isi.org) releases its list of the worst campus outrages. A little birdie tells us that this year's top Polly--so dubbed for the political correctness that usually lies behind such outrages--will go to the University of California at Berkeley. There the conservative student newspaper had its press run stolen and then faced death threats when editors reported the theft to the police. The paper's editors believe the attack was in response to an investigative article about Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, a Hispanic student group whose national Web site is filled with anti-Semitic language and whose Berkeley branch receives $20,000 in university funding.

1. The Patrioteers didn't receive death threats following the thefts. They received death threats last year during the David Horowitz incident. For some reason, the Daily Cal turned this into current death threats.

2. The anti-semitic website, while using much of the same rhetoric as MeCHA, doesn't have any known affiliation to anybody besides the webmaster. It appears safe to say he's just some random nutcase.

Any Patriot staffer could tell you these... have any of these commentators done any followup on the original Daily Cal article?



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