Forget whatever the media said before. Now Aaron Greene is a "Hitler-wannabe."

Remember the West Village bomb-maker who went to Harvard and was dyed-in-the-wool Occupy Wall Street?

Remember how he didn't go to Harvard? Remember how he had no connection to Occupy and didn't have any political affiliations or motivations at all?

Remember how yes he did too?

No? Don't remember any of that? All previous iterations of this story safely stowed down the memory hole?

Good. Because here's the new official version: Aaron Greene, arrested last week in his apartment for possession of firearms and the explosive powder HMTD, is a Nazi-lover. Who went to Harvard.

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Aaron Greene, weapons enthusiast and subject of much bad reporting.

We wrote yesterday about the chain reaction of bad reporting the New York Post set off this week when its reporters quoted anonymous sources alleging that Aaron Greene -- one half of the couple arrested on Saturday after police found a weapons cache and explosives in their West Village apartment -- had ties to Occupy Wall Street.

In the aftermath, both the Associated Press and Reuters repeated the Post's claim, and it spread far and wide before the NYPD officially told reporters on the record that they don't think Greene was involved in any political movements.

What we missed yesterday was that on January 2, a full two days after the Occupy link had already been debunked, CBS This Morning ran a segment doubling down on the false claim.

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Morgan Gliedman was arrested with Aaron Greene, who the Post incorrectly linked to Occupy Wall Street.

When police raided the West Village apartment of Morgan Gliedman and Aaron Greene on Saturday, the New York Post was first to the story.

It was the sort of story that was right in the Post's wheelhouse. Gliedman, 27, nine months pregnant, the daughter of a prominent doctor and the product of a Park-Avenue-and-Dalton upbringing, and Greene, a Harvard alumnus, caught in a filthy den of drugs, decadence, and bomb-making materials just blocks from the townhouse where Weather Underground bomb-makers accidentally blew themselves up decades before.

The story also had another element that appears to becoming a Post signature: citing anonymous sources, apparently from within the NYPD, Post reporters Jamie Schram, Antonio Antenucci, and Matt McNulty reported that Greene had ties to Occupy Wall Street. The assertion was right up top in the story's lead sentence:

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Monday's New York Post front cover calling for action on gun-control.

It appears that media mogul Rupert Murdoch may have some level of, dare I say, morality and compassion inside of him.

A day after New York Magazine reported that higher-ups at Fox News directed producers and reporters to avoid engaging in gun-control talk, Murdoch's New York Post published an editorial calling for an end to the legal sale of high-powered automatic weapons.

The editorial comes in the wake Friday's horrific shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. -- which left 20 young children and eight adults, including the shooter, dead. Perpetrator Adam Lanza used a military-style .223 caliber assault rifle to carry out the gruesome murders.

"Has technology rendered the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution obsolete? That is, has the application of modern military design to civilian firearms produced a class of weapons too dangerous to be in general circulation?" the editorial starts out asking. "We say: Yes."

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If it bleeds, it leads.

The front page of the New York Post this morning shows a man who was pushed in the path of a train at a Times Square subway station yesterday. The man died.

The Post just happened to have a photographer at the same subway stop at the exact moment when the man -- identified as 58-year-old Ki Suk Han, a Queens father and husband -- was pushed to his death.

The photog, Umar Abbasi, opted to help Suk Han escape a certain death in a rather unconventional way: by snapping photos as the train was barreling down on him.

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A few weeks back, we examined a day in the tweeting life of NewsCorp Presidente, Rupert Murdoch - the notorious purveyor of conservative commentary and, recently, the subject of a widespread Parliamentary investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has consumed the entire company. Through his tweets, he upset the Romney campaign, the Scientology community and defended his case against the Levenson Inquiry. However, it looks like he'll have to defend his case against his own company.
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Dharun Ravi was sentenced to 30 days in jail after getting found guilty of charges related to the suicide of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi. As far as we know, Ravi's not gay -- and Andrea Peyser's a hypocrite.

In a column about a Rutgers University student who committed suicide because he was publicly humiliated by his freshman roommate for being gay, New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser publicly humiliates the roommate -- who by all accounts is not gay -- by claiming that he's a "possible closet case."

She then calls Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student who received a slap on the wrist for his involvement in the 2010 suicide death of Tyler Clementi, a "doofus douchebag" before arguing that just about everyone who'd ever met Clementi should be charged with a crime in his suicide.

Clementi, as you probably know, jumped off the George Washington Bridge in September of 2010 after he learned that Ravi had recorded him making out with a man in the dorm room the two shared. The case brought national attention to the issue of cyber-bullying and the struggles of LGBT youth.

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Phil Mushnick: people like Jay-Z are responsible for the word "nigga."

*UPDATE* Mushnick defends himself further by claiming he's not a racist because he outed Marge Schott. Click here for details.

Since our prior post about New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick's column suggesting the Brooklyn Nets should change their name to the "New York Niggers," Mushnick sent us an explanation of his offensive column.

It's pretty lame -- he basically says we can thank rappers (read: black people) like Jay-Z for the term "nigga," a word he assures us he doesn't use. He says our suggestion that his (terrible) attempt at satire was racist is "wishful and foolish."

See his explanation below.

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No shocker here, but a New York Post op-ed contributor is peddling the same misleading bullshit about minimum wage increases that opponents always peddle.

Enter Nicole Gelinas.

Raising minimum wage -- as per the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act -- is "left-wing social engineering." (Classic Post prose, really.)

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This happened.

Did you know that complaining about racism makes you unpatriotic and means that you have a (bad) attitude toward America?

Well, it doesn't, but that's what the New York Post's Abby Schachter suggests.

"Bill Maher pretty much summed up the left's attitude toward the United States when he declared that Barack Obama came up from poverty to become 'the first black president of the racist states of America,' she writes.

For Schachter, of course, this is evidence that, "according to liberals like Maher, nothing has changed in all that time. This country is racist, many liberals believe, so it ever was and so it shall ever be. The election of a black president has done nothing to change our nation's true nature, says the left, because at its heart this is a racist country."

Somehow, Maher's one comment corroborates something about all liberals and suggests that white people get the short end of the stick. Oh, and apparently, the Trayvon Martin case is an example of "the liberal racist narrative."

She really said all this!

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