It would have been great to see better evidence at the press conference in CA today. In spite of (or perhaps on account of) this, the media was having a field day; one individual toward the end of the conference literally shouting from the back of the room “is this a hoax?”

Assuming the whole thing is bogus, one is left to wonder if the media

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Author: Micah Hanks

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2 Replies to “Bigfoot… Free Ticket to a Media Hayride

  1. This is the funniest press report I’ve seen yet. It’s by Steve Rubenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/15/BAFN12C0SB.DTL

    I love this quote about the photograph of the creature’s mouth:

    The fuzziest one – the one that looked like a banana inside a tortilla – depicted what Whitton said was Bigfoot’s jaw. That photograph was airtight proof of the existence of something that looked like a banana inside a tortilla.

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