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Hoax video presented in salvia testimony; Riddle on hate crimes and hair color

I missed the hearing myself, but Vince at Capitol Annex watched the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee meeting on Wednesday and offered a couple of reports:In laying out salvia bill, Anderson dupes Criminal Jurisprudence Committee with YouTube videoRiddle compares hair color to race, sexual orientation when discussing hate crimes lawIn the first item, Vince makes an excellent catch by identifying that one of the YouTube videos Anderson showed the committee on salvia, "was from a humor site and not actually something from real life." Whoops!That's a serious blow to the credibility of Rep. Charles "Doc" Anderson's case against salvia, particularly since that the Houston Chronicle said (not knowing it was a hoax) that the humor video was the most "compelling" evidence shown to the committee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).