Richard Jewell Cannot Accept Our Apology

Obviously that weirdo Jewell had planted the bomb so he could take credit for discovering it. Or so it seemed, for some reason, to the FBI, which leaked Jewell as the primary suspect, and CNN, and NBC, and the New York Post, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, which took the leak, a perfect story after all, and used it to make Jewell’s life Hell on Earth.

Eric Robert Rudolph was the real Atlanta Olympic Bomber, he is in prison today.

Jewell died 11 years after the bombing, exonerated and a little richer thanks to several settlements against media outlets like CNN, but still a broken man. In its obituary, the New York Times, which had also reported on the allegations against Jewell, eulogized him as the hero of the Atlanta attack.

So take a lesson from this reminder, and turn off the god-damn TV.