Anti-War Fraud
By Callimachus | Related entries in Bad Decisions, In The News, Military, Partisan Hacks, The War On TerrorismHe’s Cindy Sheehan’s anti-war Marine buddy.
He has a book out — it’s big in France — about the dreadful U.S. military and how it is full of psychopathic killers who wipe out civilians for the sheer fun of it.
And, it turns out, he’s a fraud.
Oh, he’s not as complete a fraud as Micah Wright — the anti-war activist and author who described himself as a veteran of combat, a former Army Ranger whose experiences during the 1989 invasion of Panama turned him into a peacenik, but who, as he later confessed, never served in the military.
But a fraud nonetheless. And kudos to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the thankless job of digging up the fraudulence and plunking it down on the table for everyone to smell.
The paper even went and talked to some of the other newspapers who fell for Sgt. Fake and who printed his fibs as facts. The excuses say a lot.
“Yes, it would have been much better if we had the other side. But all I’m saying is that this is unfortunately something that happens every day in our newspapers and with practically every story on television.”
We told you and told you and told you; but did you listen? Noooooooo. That whole “Peace Mom/Mother Sheehan” thing was one long exploding cigar. We suggested you keep your distance from the people who were falling over themselves to get close to her. But it was just too tempting for the teeth-grinding Bush-haters, inside and outside the media. And the way some of us see things, the people with gunpowder stains and tobacco shreds all over their faces this morning are too near the center of the Democratic Party team photo.
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November 6th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
Yep. The media screwed up on this one, but like any other successful system it is self correcting.
November 6th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
It’s interesting that the news media didn’t ask the journalists embedded in the unit what was going on with these stories. This reminds me of the journalistic commission who “investigated” the killing of the Spanish reporters at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. They never contacted the embedded reporter on that one, either.