On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 5:10:14 PM UTC-5, F.O.A.D. wrote:
Less than two hours after the Boston bombing took place, The New York

Post -- citing unnamed "law enforcement sources" -- claimed that a

"Saudi Arabian national" was a "suspect" in the case and that he was

"under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital." Several right-wing

outlets quickly trumpeted that report. But the claim quickly unraveled

(as did the paper's similarly sourced claim that 12 had been killed in

the explosions), with law enforcement telling reporters that no one had

been arrested in the case and that the Saudi was a witness who was

cooperating with authorities.



By the next afternoon, Fox News was reporting that "a federal law

enforcement official is confirming... that Saudi man, the college

student who was described as a person of interest in the Boston

bombings, has now been ruled out as a suspect in this bombing."



But in the interim, the right-wing media -- led by popular conservative

blogger Jim Hoft -- swallowed the initial Post report and began posting

as much personal information about the man as they could discover.



On the night of the bombings, Hoft posted the report of the "Internet

activist Jester" that a federal search warrant was being executed at an

apartment building in Revere, Massachusetts, later revealed to be the

Saudi national's apartment. Reporting on the same search later that

night, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren said, "I'm not going to give you

the address in case for some reason it's a bad search." But Hoft had no

such compunction, publishing the address, the name of the building, and

a link to a full list of the building's residents via addresses.com.

Hoft also linked to a Free Republic reader's comment that the building

was identified in reviews as what the reader termed a "Section 8 hellhole."



By the following morning, Hoft dialed down slightly, calling the Saudi

national a "person of interest" in the case, rather than a suspect. But

he still published the person's name and a series of photos that he said

came from the Facebook page of someone with the same name (including one

picture of a young man jumping in front of Cinderella's Castle in Disney

World's Magic Kingdom theme park). Hoft cited Free Republic and Townhall

as the source for the man's name. According to Wonkette, "the Freeper

page is actually just a link to the Townhall article... which doesn't

actually include the guy's name (We'll assume it's been scrubbed? Google

cache didn't appear to have an older version)." Hoft later updated the

post to acknowledge that Fox has reported the man was not a suspect.



The right-wing site FrontPageMag also went through the man's Facebook

page, highlighting a picture of what it said was the "Saudi bombing

suspect," turning up the fact that the man had allegedly "reposted" the

message, "If today really was the last day, how would you spend it?"

Conservative blogger Pamela Geller reposted their report.



Neither Geller nor FrontPageMag noted one crucial fact: The Facebook

entry about envisioning the "last day" was posted December 20, 2012 --

the day before many claimed the Mayan calendar had predicted the world

would end.



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