It began on Bloggers and personals as a statement of my own idea, that there is a Romney-Marriott-NRA connection that could be investigated.
The NRA connection is the pertinent point
As a history major and former librarian, I like to cite supporting literature. I had done that when posting my thoughts, in the morning, on other websites
The other websites to which I posted did not have the same compartmentalized structure as FR. There's usually a place to place a screenname and a box to enter a message.
When I came here, I tried, in various ways, to present my argument in a coherent manner.
FR did not accept sources I had used previously (like Bloomberg) so I looked around to find another source.
I made the mistake, here, of deciding to lead with Vallejo's column and of posting the link to it the top of the thread. Her column had made no material contribution to my idea. It merely corroborated facts that most politically informed people already knew about Romney.
I was accused of stealing and plagiarizing, so the authorship and date were changed and the 10-month old article was placed into "breaking news."
I asked that my title be replaced by Vallejo's, in order to be more accurate.The original title of my thread was
"Romney has close, personal ties with former head of Natl Rest. Association, Dick Marriott"
I know, now, that when I first posted this thread I should have explained MY idea, kept MY date and authorship and NOT cited anything.
I should have let Freepers do their own fact checking.