20061115 Carrie Knauer and Mission to Baghdad.

Carrie Knauer and Mission to Baghdad.

November 15^th, 2006

Westminster – November 15^th, 2006. We can now put aside all the rumors that have been circulating in the greater Carroll County community as to the locational whereabouts of one of the Carroll County Times' star reporters, Carrie Ann Knauer.

Those of us who are used to all the wild conspiracy theories that circulate in the community knew to be suspicious when it was whispered that the real reason Ms. Knauer had not written any articles in the Carroll County Times recently was that she was “sequestered” with Vice-President Dick Chaney in an undisclosed location for national security purposes.

Many were curious when the accompanying photo surfaced depicting Ms. Knauer with the vice-president.

Then there was the trial balloon floated to put us off the track that she was really attending the 16^th Annual Conference of Environmental Journalists in Burlington, Vermont. We were not deterred.

As you are aware, Ms. Knauer took the local journalists’ scene by storm when she first appeared at the Carroll County Times in “February, 2002, after receiving a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, in December, 2001,” according to her publicist.

Since then, it has been noticed by those of us who devour all the local newspapers that not only is she prolific, but she has the uncanny knack of getting it right, a refreshing approach for those of us who actually know the local news scene.

Then at the recent Carroll County 4-H FFA Fair, she was awarded, “Best Shoes in Show – as worn by a journalist.”

Well, since “Soundtrack Division” has no interest in mimicking the New York Times approach to recklessly endangering national security and the lives of those in harm’s way, we can now reveal, now that Ms. Knauer has re-surfaced in the Carroll County community, that she was indeed with Dick Chaney on a secret fact-finding mission to Iraq, “Mission to Baghdad.”

When contacted for comment about this fast-breaking news story, Ms. Knauer was unavailable for comment. As this intriguing story unfolds, please keep checking “Soundtrack” for up-to-the-minute reports, which will continue until Ms. Knauer breaks her silence and writes for all of us a column on her experiences at the SEJ Conference, because many of us are so jealous.

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Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA. E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org http://www.thetentacle.com/ Westminster Eagle Opinion and Winchester Report http://www.thewestminstereagle.com/ www.kevindayhoff.com has moved to http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/