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Qoute of the Day:
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
~ Samuel Johnson ~

My favorite news site, Signs of the Times, always has plenty to blog about. In this case, however, I thought to post some info that came from another site, Wing TV, concerning one Jeff Rense.

It seems that Jeff published an article written by Lisa Guliani, onw of the owners of Wing, and didn't give her credit. Not only that, but he waited two years to use the original article as if time would have erased any memory of the original author. Not very bright.

When Lisa asked him to credit her for the work he removed it. Sour grapes or just caught in a lie? With the research that Lisa has compiled it looks like a CoIntelPro style lie to me.

Lisa Guliani knows how to do research. Here is what she found about the great Jeff Rense:

"Patsy Smullin has run KOBI-TV for the last 30 years, and her father founded it. If anybody would have known Jeff Rense and the supposed 5,000 newscasts he claims to have made, it would be Patsy."

"As it happens, Patsy Smullin does remember Jeff Rense, and in two different telephone conversations I had with her over the past few days, she confirmed that he did have a position at her television station for a brief time as a reporter and news anchor. Smullin stressed that Jeff Rense, or “a guy calling himself Jeff Rense” (her words), was employed at KOBI (an NBC affiliate) from June 1983 to May 1984, and she is not aware of him working at any other station in the state of Oregon either prior to his employment at KOBI-TV or afterward."

"Patsy had more to say. She revealed that in her experience as Jeff Rense’s employer (and this is a direct quote), “He was not known for his honesty.” Think about it. Patsy Smullin was Rense’s employer some twenty-odd years ago. After all this tiime, the characteristic that has remained clearly in her memory is that “he was not known for his honesty”. What does that say to you? According to Ms. Smullin, at that time Jeff was also involved in several court battles with other people. One wonders if it has anything to do with him not being known for his honesty?

"When asked if she could elaborate on the comment she'd made regarding Rense not being known for his honesty, her response was: "Sure. He was a compulsive liar." Also, when questioned as to the claim that Jeff anchored and produced “5000 newscasts,” Patsy Smullin laughed heartily and stated, “This is absolutely false. He never did that here.”"

Lisa got going and dug around to find articles Jeff had written and found, well, basically nothing it seems.
"An extensive online search for articles, journalistic reports and papers from Rense’s purported pre-Rense.com prior journalism career yields nothing."

"How can this possibly be if he has written ‘numerous articles, papers and reports’? His book, AIDS Exposed, does not appear to be available anymore, with the exception of potential availability of a random used copy, if you’re lucky. ....... Furthermore, online searches for any evidence of Jeff Rense’s longstanding claims regarding his extremely elusive broadcast journalism career path result in even more dead ends."

Then, there are the claims on his website:

Claim #1: On the Rense.com homepage, we see the following: “7-time Peabody Award Nominee”
Truth: The Rense.com website claims 7 Peabody Award nominations. The Peabody Awards do not have nominees. Anyone can fill out an entry, and then later the winners are announced.

Claim # 2: The Rense website states: “Talkers magazine top 100 Host”
Truth: Please note that Jeff Rense isn't listed in the top 100, and he isn't even listed in the additional 250 names cited in the rest of Talkers Top Radio Show Host picks for 2006. Rense failed to make the cut for 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, etc. ....... Talkers characterized this misleading representation in one word: “deceptive”, saying they will be keeping an eye on Rense and any Talkers-related claims from here on.

Lisa gives more examples that you can read on the site. But as she says:
"Bottom line: Jeff Rense has falsely accused WING TV of trading in lies, deception, duplicity, innuendo, disinformation and trickery. Jeff Rense better start looking in the mirror, because I see a so-called “patriot” that needs to come clean about a few things, someone who is “not known for his honesty”.

Definitions of deception on the Web:

• misrepresentation: a misleading falsehood
• the act of deceiving
• magic trick: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
• Deception is providing intentionally misleading information to others.
• To practice deceit.
• To give a false impression: appearances can deceive.
• To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
• to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid intransitive verb : to practice deceit
• be false to; be dishonest with - 2: cause someone to believe an untruth"

Ah, yes. CoIntelPro.

Hmmm ... is there a subtle odor of singed hair wafting through the internet air? Better get over to the Rense website for a good look at his famous 'do' before it all goes up in smoke. With this expose he might be forced to buy a new wig. OTOH, you could always surf over to the Signs read the Real News and have a look at their forum.

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