In fact, while guest-hosting Dobbs' own show on July 17, Kitty Pilgrim refuted the fringe theory, saying, "CNN has fully investigated the issue, found no basis for the questions about the president's birthplace, but the controversy lives on, especially on the Internet".
Like D'Souza himself, they have made their careers out of clout chasing via controversy, living and dying by the "any press is good press" axiom.
Mr. Buell, the retired head of the Associated Press photo service, says that despite film of the whole event proving the authenticity of Mr. Rosenthal's work, a whiff of controversy stubbornly lives on.
The nature/nurture controversy still lives in academia, but most people in the press either don't know about this issue, or have moved beyond it.
Although he courted more than his fair share of controversies, Twain lived at a time when public and published words were possessed by a minority.
The engineer at the center of the controversy, Marius Milner, lives in the United States, which could complicate efforts by German prosecutors to question him.
As for the engineer at the center of the controversy, Marius Milner lives in Palo Alto, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley, and apparently still works for Google.
June 21 | Updated Mr. Lindgren has updated his post on The 6th Floor blog about the controversy, and the Lives article now links to it.
In any event, the controversy was short lived because the work faded from view.
Her life was quite untouched by political controversy, though she lived through the Third Reich on false papers because her father was Jewish.
"In view of the complex and ever-shifting circumstances of the case, we cannot say with any confidence that no live controversy is before us," the majority wrote.
