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Remember back in the old days when newspapers and magazines had "staff" and "editors" and their trashy little rags weren't just scratched off by interns and senile old Mexican politicians? On the bright side, at least, we've still got cable teevee news to do all the fancy fact-checking for us! Lord help us.

Yesterday CNN (CNN!) dispatched an investigative reporter to look into that OMG so-obviously sketchy Jorge Castañeda column in Newsweek about Hugo Chavez plotting to overthrow Cuba, I mean really, Cuba? And duh yeah it turns out that he just made it all up. How do we know this? Because they ask him (taking notes, Newsweek?) His reply is just nuts:

Castañeda freely offers that he has no proof, calling his thesis "informed speculation."

"I have no way to substantiate any of this," he said by telephone Tuesday from Mexico City. "I have no evidence of it."

Instead, Castañeda points to an "enigmatic" comment former leader Fidel Castro made in a column after the two men were removed.

About baseball! The whole stupid coup plot story was based on an "enigmatic comment" Fidel made about his team winning the World fucking Baseball Classic this year. Jorge Castañeda is a disturbed old man. And Newsweek will print anything, at least until it goes "online only" for six months and then folds, like everybody else.