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What happens when you are wrongly accused in a posting on the Internet and you call to correct the false or misleading assertion?
 
This happened to me on Dec. 8 â€" not the first time â€" on a post on a website associated with the liberal Democratic organization the Center for American Progress (CAP) â€" an organization I strongly support and whose leader, John Podesta, is a close friend of mine of over 40 years.
 
The CAP-affiliated website, Think Progress, and the author of the piece, Eli Clifton, wrongly accused me of supporting the “coup” in Honduras in 2008 and of defending the military strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, who had been defeated in an election in the Ivory Coast. He did so in the context of criticizing my business partner, Josh Block, for accusing CAP bloggers of using language that was “borderline anti-Semitic.” And Clifton never called me first to check his facts before attacking me.

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