"This only took a couple of minutes time for "amateurs" on Free Republic to check out. The "professional" journalists at the AP must have been to busy to do this basic checking."
He was a REAL PROFESSIONAL Navy Seal. You're just an amateur seal, Travis. Get with the program, son. :) Hehe! Just kidding!
That was a good eye. I'm about to post an essay addressing just this very point. These liberals don't know how much of a diverse group of experts we have here. Do they?
The liberal MSM types don't know about Boyd's OODA loop theory. Google search it for your report, it could be the core of your report. Basically, we're so much faster than the MSM reporting cycle, that we can fact check them in minutes and return counter battery fire directly on them, before they have the first clue. THey never have a chance to recover, because we keep jabbing them from all directions while they are still off balance. And this is just the leading edge of the "new media" wave.