"A minor error that impacts none of the rest of the book is just that: a minor inconsequential error."
I strongly disagree. If only one fact is wrong, bent, twisted to make a point, then it brings into question all the 'facts' in the book. It also raises serious doubt about how truthfull the SBVT really are. They are challenging the truthfullness of someone else with facts that are not correct (untruthfull)and that doesn't flush - sorry.
If it is in error, I imagine it will be researched and corrected. You would probably be THANKED for calling it to their attention unlike.............
I've read your posts on this subject and you don't hide your sympathies. Just curious. Have you actually read the book?
Please point out any item in the book that you think is based on the Gridley deployment timeline and how it was 'twisted to make a point'.
As I've said, this is a minor inconsequential error since it isn't being used to make the case for any of the points raised regarding kerry's Swift boat service.
You said: If only one fact is wrong, bent, twisted to make a point, then it brings into question all the 'facts' in the book. It also raises serious doubt about how truthfull the SBVT really are. They are challenging the truthfullness of someone else with facts that are not correct
You make a good point. However, media should NEVER take these kinds of assertions, from either side, at face value. One job of the press is to, when presented with these issues, conduct independent research on them. This is being done with great vigor on the Swiftees' claims. Where was the press on F911? The press demanded, as perhaps it should have, all documents relating to the issue of President Bush's alleged "desertion" from the Air Guard. Of course, this same scrutiny is missing on the issues surrounding Kerry's service (not to mention his post service DIS-SERVICE). A story is not true because someone say it is so, it is true because it is true. And that truth does not depend upon the personal character, or lack thereof, of the one telling the story. The press continually misses (or avoids) this.