re: You wouldn't know a fact if it bit you.
You can find plenty of examples of your not-so innocent bystander phenomenon in the other direction, too. I recall cases recently where "voter in the street" comemnts have turned out to be from GOP county chairs and that sort of thing. I'm sure some Lexis and Google work would turn it up, but since you didn't bother replying when I documented that the media ignored the RNC New Hampshire phone jamming story just as much as they ignored the ACORN story, why bother presenting facts?