Well, unfortunately for Drudge, this story has turned out to be less of a siren special and more like one of his many lead balloons. As in, it didn’t fly. For instance:
1. There are actually two videos of McCain’s news conference. In neither one is Michael Ware heckling or even asking a question.
2. At the very end of the appearance, you can see Ware raise his hand to ask a question. At that point, McCain closed the press conference and left, without even allowing Ware to speak. That is exactly what Ware said this morning when interviewed, saying he was not called upon to speak.
3. Strike three: there is a video of the Maher interview. In it, you can see that Maher made a joke, Ware responding by making a joke about drinking as a way to deal with being in Iraq for four years.
4. At the same time that the videos were posted, Drudge yanked the story, and it is now in the bowels of his archives. No explanation, no correction, no apology. Nada. Just another of Matt’s “specials,” based on a rumor passed to him. Garbage in, garbage out.
The horror!
He is a big boy, working 24/7/365 in a political campaign against this President and the US in Iraq, not to mention being a hack for Hezbollah and the Taliban, a smidgen of his own medicine won’t kill him.
To whomever leaked to Drudge, I say, hear! hear!
Sad, but true.
Ware is still a idiot. He’s just not an idiot because of this (non-) story.
The story is now more about Drudge, than Ware.