Oh no. Perish the thought! He\u2019s running<\/A> with that Yushchenko poisoning "confirmed"<\/A> story from the London Times<\/I> \u2013 many hours after it\u2019s been thoroughly debunked by the Associated Press, which reports<\/A>:<\/P> "The cause of the illness that has left Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s face pockmarked is still not known, the director of the hospital that treated him said Wednesday, rejecting a report that the presidential candidate was poisoned.<\/i><\/P> "\u2026Doctors are still running tests to try to determine what caused the illness, said Dr. Michael Zimpfer, the Rudolfinerhaus director.<\/i><\/P> "\u2026Zimpfer rejected as \u2018entirely untrue<\/B>\u2019 a story in the Wednesday edition of the London daily <\/i>The Times, which quoted Dr. Nikolai Korpan – the Rudolfinerhaus physician who oversaw Yushchenko’s treatment – as saying that Yushchenko had been poisoned and the intention was to kill the candidate.<\/i><\/P> "Korpan also was quoted as denying making the remarks."<\/i><\/P> You mean the news media is \u2013 yikes! \u2013 biased??? The Times <\/I>was \u2026 lying? Omigod, say it isn\u2019t so!<\/P> Glenn was even busy implicating Vladimir Putin as the culprit. Evidence? Who needs evidence? Certainly not a professor of law<\/I>\u2026.<\/P> To those of us with built-in BS-detectors, however, it wasn\u2019t hard to anticipate this particular debunking. The Times story claims that the poisoning has been "confirmed," but somehow neglects to name the mysterious substance that supposedly disfigured Yushchenko\u2019s once-handsome visage. Oh, and, even though the "poisoning" diagnosis is "confirmed," there\u2019s just one minor complication:<\/P> "We need to check him again here in Vienna. If we received him today, we could finish the whole investigation in two or three days." <\/i><\/P> Unfortunately, however, according to the Times<\/I>\u2019s Jeremy Page — "reporting" from Kiev — "a spokeswoman said [Yushchenko] had no plans to travel to Vienna." Gee, so I guess that means the "mystery" wouldn\u2019t be cleared up until \u2026 after the election. How convenient.<\/P> The key tip off, however, that the whole story was bogus from beginning to end is that the Cato Institute’s resident neocon and Karen Kean Lopez of National Review<\/I> both believed it \u2013 and no doubt still do. Ideology trumps reality every time.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh no. Perish the thought! He\u2019s running with that Yushchenko poisoning "confirmed" story from the London Times \u2013 many hours after it\u2019s been thoroughly debunked by the Associated Press, which reports:"The cause of the illness that has left Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s face pockmarked is still not known, the director of the hospital that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}