Dan Rather rides again.

string the f***ker up.

It's one thing to be a douchebag. It's another to be a douchebag at the expense of your comrades in arms.

Hopefully, a bar of soap finds its way into a wool blanket and then against that sour bastards ribcage.

I'm not one to condone physical violence and such, but what this guy did is beyond reproach and he deserves much more than what he will get.

Yo, the bar of soap doesn't need to wind up in a blanket, it needs to wind up in a sock. Blankets don't swing so well.

Expect deflection by comparisons with Sgt. Aquina meant to devert attention from Liberal Media embarrassment.

List ..., as long as there's some velocity on it, I won't kabitz on the delivery mechanism.

I cannot even begin to describe the disgust I have for that ass-monkey.

Pure and simple: say what you will about the mission, but you just don't f*** your buddy. They teach that on day 1 of basic training.

And yes, that disgust extends to the morally vapid jack-weasels who printed his tripe.

Dammit, I need a shot.

Yo you crack me up.

Next step in the liberal defense.

He is a victim.

As Charles at LGF would put it: Got another one.

Sweeeeeet.

Nah, "fake but true" is too obvious in this case.

I'm guessing they'll counter with claims of another "Swiftboat" orchestrated right wing smear attack against this poor soldier.

That'll make'em all feel good again.

As the Weekly Standard put it: "Did he lie to the investigators or did he lie to his editors?"

TNR will probably claim that he only recanted under duress and stick with the "accurate with only one minor error" line.

Another question is: what will become of the whistleblower, code named Gracie, who was fired for outing this jerk, and this ridiculous series of articles?

Could TNR be compelled to rehire "Gracie" and would he want to work there even if asked?

It's a military cover up, reaching clear into the Oval Office, masterminded by Karl Rove.

Congressional hearings scheduled for September 3rd.

Meanwhile in the comments section, we have Barney on 24 hour suicide watch.

Not just Barney, we need to have jp2, jim, Hooson and Hamilton on suicide watch. And Leeward needs to be sedated stat (little medical lingo, there).

I really don't much feel the need to beat my own drum, but I oughta look back and see what day I commented that his best defence was to claim it was fiction.
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I don't see how Foer or the other senior editor involved in standing behind this story keep their jobs. They claimed to have multiple sources and to have "fact-checked" the "Thomas" stories, then continued to maintain the deception even knowing he had recanted.

Maybe TNR will just take the final leap and admit to being "a national journal of fiction."

Even so, they need to fire them both for violating the First Rule of Holes. If you can't obey that one religiously, you have no business in a leadership position in any organization.

The military offensive in Iraq against al-Qaeda is working. Public support for the "surge" is on the upswing.

Dreadfully bad news for liberals and Democrats.

What can they do? How about another Abu Graib? Perfect -- AG generated a lot of anti-military sentiment and bought the war protesters a lot of free airtime. Just one problem though ... but no one is currently being abused by our troops in Iraq.

No biggie ... just find some stooge to make up a bunch of crap, then print it as an "eyewitness account" of "atrocities" committed by US military personnel.

But then that plan goes up in smoke. The lies are exposed.

What next?

Downplay the victories. So what if we are "winning." Our troops are just a bunch of morally retarded losers. The bad stuff just gets censored because Bush controlls the press. And the coalition government will fall apart. See -- look over there. Everybody hates each other. This is nothing but a disaster. We should have never gone into Iraq in the first place ... blah, blah, blah.

Just wait for it.

Jim and kim,

You're both right on the money. No doubt he will claim that he was just writing a fictional "war journal" and that the onus is on TNR for stupidly mistaking his work as factual reporting rather than good creative writing.

But those claims of fact-checking by the editors are going to be rather hard to dismiss ... unless they want to claim that other editors reviewed the piece and agreed that "in fact" it was a good work of fiction.

Again, we can only laugh at the "layers and layers of fact checking" proudly boasted by the Mainstream media.

Again, we can only laugh at the "layers and layers of fact checking" proudly boasted by the Mainstream media.

Fact-checking, TNR style:

Will it hurt Bush? Yes, in fact, it will.

Will it hurt the GOP? Yes, in fact, it will.

Will it hurt the military? Yes, in fact, it will.

Will it hurt the war in Iraq? Yes, in fact, it will.

Okay, run with it.

Damn, I hate when my jokes turn out to be the truth:

"If you listen to the Chait dialogue, he once again claims that TNR vigorously fact-checked the Beauchamp pieces before publication, but states once again that what they did was ask other "experts" (read: journalists) if this "smelled good" and seemed plausible."

lol C-C-G

The truth of the matter is that in 20 years this person, will be a US Senator from Massachusetts running for POTUS. Just like his idol Flip Flop Kerry tried to do with scam.

barneyG, Lee, FreedomFRIED, Brian... call your office.

Hotline to Pluto is behind the second door on the left.

Thanks, Marc, I had forgotten about FF and Brian. We need them on suicide watch too.

The truth of the matter is that in 20 years this person, will be a US Senator from Massachusetts running for POTUS. Just like his idol Flip Flop Kerry tried to do with scam.

And when someone brings up his past fabrications, the lefty media will yell that the right is trying to "TNR-boat" him.

He is just a typical democrat. Again Swiftboating (telling the 100% truth about a democrat liar/con) came to the forefront and worked. That's why the democrats use Swiftboat as a negative term. They wouldn't know the truth if it bit them on the ass and it has bit them quite often. Do the democrats have any 'real' hero's, not the made up in their own mind crowd?

Dan Rather and CBS push phony documents about President
Bush just before a presidential election.

Bogus story about missing explosives before a Presidential election.

Haditha (impeach Murtha)

Newsweek's bogus Gitmo story including flushing Koran down toilet by our Soldiers(or Nazis according to "gulag" Durbin)resulting in riots and over 12 deaths.

Photo shopped images of the Israeli/Lebanon war by
Reuters.

Photo shopped images of our Soldiers terrorizing civilians in Afghanistan on the front page of the
LA times.

Boston paper runs bogus story about our Soldiers raping muslim women on their front page.(ended up being porno)

Eason Jordan states that our Soldiers are targeting
Journalist.(Statement made with no proof to back it
up,as usual).

Jamil Hussein and the "Six burning sunnis".

Posting enemy propaganda of our Soldiers being killed
by terrorist snipers.

Printing the secrets of how we are tracking down terrorist threats.(NSA and Bank tracking stories by the
NYT)

Jesse Macbeth,Micah Wright,Jimmy Massey, Amorita Randall,and Scott Beauchamp, all liars about our brave
men and women in uniform that the honorable media rushed to print.

Story about how President Bush and our men and women
in uniform stood against liberals,the media and our real enemy,the terrorist, to win Freedom for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Shit!!, I'm sorry, that story has not hit the front
pages yet.)

Baxter Greene, that's a very damning list of transgressions by the terrorist loving liberal media.

Wow. Who would have guessed that unverified, unevidenced rumors of improbable activities turned out not to be true? Shocking! Completely shocking!

The real question is:

Will they have the balls to bring the full power of the UCMJ and USC Title 18 to bear on him?

Gee, where are our "favorite" leftist/trolls?

They are damn quick to infest a thread complaining about why Wizbang has ignored a story as if they are Editors-in-Chief.

Here it it 8 hours after posting and nary a one can be found.

TNR did this before with Stephen Glass who wrote quite a few articles negative towards republicans. TNR stood by him until everyone exposed his as a fraud. Making up the articles out of whole cloth. Now they are at it again. This proves AGAIN that the left cannot stand the military. They so wanted this story to be true. ww

marc: you won't see them show up here too soon. They're going nuts searching Google for the slightest shred of evidence they can exaggerate to counter this. When they can't find it, they'll do one of three things:

1) either move to the next thread they can more easily twist into a scathing admonition of the author, completely forgetting this ever happened,

b) they'll bring up any number of "things that have happened in the past" to hold up against these stories as if they lend credibility to Beauchamp's claims,

iii) demand accountability, numerous links and irrefutable proof so they can then malign and personally attack the sources.

(That numbering system still makes me laugh, Paul.)

Notice that they never appeared at this thread. A veritable explosion of the cricket population there.

And BTW, I called it here.

These people won't ever be honest about anything related to Bush, the war or anyone to the right of center. In this case, it's so much more important to demonize the war than anything else that they're willing to throw our troops under the bus in the process. But they support them!

TNR will eventually throw Beauchamp under the bus, once they realize they can no longer bluff their way through this debacle.

First they defend, then they deny, then they cut and run.

Oyster, I'm DEEPLY offended for several reasons.

1) the numbering system goes 1 - B - III - d.

B) I used it here well before Paul ever did -- IF he ever did. I don't recall him ever using it.

III) I stole it, fair and square, from "Car Talk."

d) Paul gets enough credit for stuff; he doesn't need any of MINE.

In short, giving him credit for it is sheer and utter -- wait for it -- "codswallop."

J.

eek! My sincerest apologies, Jay. I'm a thoughtless and shallow excuse of a human being. To fall from your graces pains me.

*hangs head in shame*

:)

Oyster:

These people won't ever be honest about anything related to Bush, the war or anyone to the right of center.

Agreed, and with the surge "surging" and public support for the war jumping ten points in a month and finally the leaker of the NSA program is being run-to-ground in addition to Obama again looking the fool we may see a bit less of them. Not likely, but possible.