WHY is Laura Mansfield on the front page of Yahoo? "Mom Scoops Al-Qaida"

[SemiCharmedQuark]

?

A.) If you put something on the internet and someone finds it, it really isn't scooping.

B.) This is the nut that believes "Islamists" are behind the Oklahoma City Bombing.

So I looked into her some more and I find that Court TV has her listed as a credible source

http://www.crimelibrary.com/about/authors/mansfield/

How do they get away with this?

On Edit: I've tried to find out more about her, but I can only find that she is a translator. Yet everywhere I see her credentials listed, she is listed as a "terrorism expert"

[Cheap_Trick]

1. I started watching the vid on yahoo

but then my bullshit detector started working overtime so I had to stop.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. I don't get why your so upset.

:shrug:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. Because she is a NUT who is being portrayed as some kind of credible expert

A hero. It's like having Pat Buchanan portrayed as some kind of hometown hero.

[Cobalt Violet]

5. Yep. She's a nut.

I guess I'm just getting nut fatigued since various nuts is what most of the news is about these days.
After a while they're all just one big blur.

[valorarete]

3. more about Laura Mansfield

Why? Eh. it makes a good story, I'm sure - it sounds so All-American... catching terrorists in your spare time! Here's some more on her:

http://www.christianaction.org/roots_of_islamic_terrorism_conference.htm

And yes, I'm disturbed by it, too. This is someone who claims that public schools are "recruiting" kids into Islam? Somehow I doubt that...