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more "fake but accurate"
1 posted on 08/07/2007 10:59:59 AM PDT by Squidpup
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— fabrications containing only “a smidgen of truth,” in the words of our source.

Truth: “I was in Iraq”


2 posted on 08/07/2007 11:01:39 AM PDT by keepitreal
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Well,well,well!


3 posted on 08/07/2007 11:03:14 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48
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This kind of stuff happens all the time, and only rarely gets exposed. Left wingers by and large are all lying, deranged fabulists.


4 posted on 08/07/2007 11:04:25 AM PDT by jpl (Dear Al Gore: it's 3:00 A.M., do you know where your drug addicted son is?)
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The only way liberals can make a point is to lie.

Reality is their worst enemy.

5 posted on 08/07/2007 11:09:11 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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The truth to the left is that which advances their goals. Factuality to them is irrelevant. It is the kind of fantasy world that can ignore Soviet Gulags and think that President Bush blew up the World Trade Towers.


6 posted on 08/07/2007 11:09:21 AM PDT by Jacquerie (All Muslims are suspect.)
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Did they have to torture him to get it out of him?


7 posted on 08/07/2007 11:14:54 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Has the New Republic responded to the truth yet? I guess they will just call it literary license.
9 posted on 08/07/2007 11:18:19 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Why — WHY? — don’t we ever prosecute people for treason any more??


10 posted on 08/07/2007 11:19:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agammemnon dead.)
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The lefties will say that he signed the confession under duress.


11 posted on 08/07/2007 11:19:31 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
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The Weekly Standard has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp -- author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns -- signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods -- fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of our source.

I hope this sinks The New Republic for good! First Stephen Glass and now this jagoff.

14 posted on 08/07/2007 11:58:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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And just when the Weekly world News is going out of business!

Too much competition, I guess.


15 posted on 08/07/2007 12:15:37 PM PDT by TBP
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So... will the Private end up a copy writer for CBS? Or will the New York Slimes give him his own slot on the Editorial page?


18 posted on 08/07/2007 1:08:01 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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bump


21 posted on 03/06/2017 12:56:52 PM PST by piasa
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Yeah, leave it to left-wing journalists to lie about our troops in a disgusting manner, heck, the left as a whole.

On that note, I also get irritated after reading up on shock troops that they have a negative connotation (like, for example, Russia being concerned about Obama’s shock troops in regards to the Black Panther party), thinking they’re somehow the same as the Sturmabteilung or the Black Panthers or something. They’re not the same, at all. The original usage of the term meant to refer specifically to soldiers on the front lines who were trained to specifically breach fortify enemy lines (that’s even what the name comes from: A calque from German where the actual full translation was closer to “push troopers” or “siege troopers.”). If anything, U.S. Marines or various Special Forces members are closer to the original definition of shock troops than the SA were, or the New Black Panthers for that matter. The latter two, if anything, are closer to political operatives who often engage in voter intimidation and/or street gangs, not even close to a standard military, let alone special forces. So yeah, I actually view the use of shock troops as being comparable to the SA as being an insult (if anything, the SA actually perverted the original term to essentially mean “political operative”).


22 posted on 08/20/2017 3:57:16 PM PDT by otness_e
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