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How Stupid Rumors Get Started
by DHinMI
Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 05:46:07 PM PDT

We get emails:
From:
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Subject: [DKos Contact Form] Clinton's Pastor is a Child Molester...Why aren't you covering it?
To:

Here is the link?

http://www.uticaod.com/...

This should have been in the news a month ago! It is relevant since she brought it up!

This seemed pretty odd to me, so I looked at the article:

When the Rev. William Procanick put his hand on the Bible during his sex-abuse trial in Oneida County Court earlier this year, he swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

But as the former Clinton pastor was sentenced Friday to three years in prison...

Wait...where is there a first name associated with that? So I went to Google, and confirmed my suspicion: the article was about a pastor from a town named Clinton, in this case, the town of Clinton, New York.

How many idiotic rumors get started this way?