Ohio Valley Politics

There’s a big news story circulating around anti-immigration blogs- apparently a leftist Hispanic group has taken credit for setting the fires in California. They even link to a CNN story titled “Separatists claim responsibility for California Wildfires” that starts out:

ORANGE COUNTY, California (CNN) — Radical Hispanic separatist organization MEChA (”Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan”) is taking responsibility for setting the wildfires in California, confimed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

California officials received a letter earlier today containing photographs of individuals holding Molotov cocktails, then throwing them into dry brush. The faces of the individuals appeared to have been digitally distorted.

Also included was a rambling manifesto, stating that the reason for the act of arson was that “Aztlán belongs to indigenous people, the Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán. We are sovereign and not subject to a foreign culture.”

Sharp eyed readers, however, will notice that the domain for the story is http://www.cnnheadlienews.com, a misspelling of CNN Headline News. The domain is actually registered to:

Bleachboy Heavy Manufacturing
701 Arbor Creek Way
Nashville, TN 37217-5053
US
(615) 260-4931
bboy@bboy.net

Now I’m no expert, but that doesn’t strike me as Ted Turner company.

Source: Anti-Immigrant Sites Link To Fake CNN Story Claiming Hispanics Started Wildfires - Politics on The Huffington Post