Shirlene McGovern hasn't yet read the article she was hired to investigate

In an earlier post, I pointed out how Shirlene McGovern, my Alberta Human Rights Commission interrogator, thought that the 12 Danish cartoons of Mohammed included three additional hoaxes, circulated by radical imams to whip up riots in the Muslim world. McGovern's written notes indicate that she had no clue that those three additional cartoons -- which depicted Mohammed as a pig, and having sex with a dog -- were fabrications made by Muslim agents provocateurs. The very first result in a Google search for "Danish cartoons" would have shown that was the case. Maybe one of the fifteen government bureaucrats working on my file might have tried that, but would have shown rather too much initiative.

But a keen-eyed correspondent reminded me of something even more startling: the very Western Standard article that the HRC is investigating reports that fact.

You can see a .pdf of the article, exactly as it ran, right here.

Here is a snapshot of the paragraph in which we point out the hoax cartoons: