Revealed as bogus: Russian story racing around the Internet that Vice President Richard Cheney's daughter was trying to be a human shield in Baghdad. That this hokum needed to be debunked at all is symptomatic of widespread gullibility in our time.
"Neither daughter even has plans to travel to that region, let alone Iraq," a Cheney spokesman told United Press International. Echo of Russia Radio Saturday cited unofficial sources when reporting Mr. Cheney's daughter, Elizabeth, had stopped in Amman, Jordan, en route to "war-torn Baghdad."
The story fomented for 48 hours, and by yesterday morning, rumors had Mr. Cheney bound for Jordan to dissuade both his daughters from shield duty.
Posted by Alan at March 26, 2003 09:00 PM