[Travis McGee]

Well, the pajama-clad denizens of THIS blogosphere don't HAVE to be fair to the AP. They want to come play in our jungle, they're going to have to play by OUR rules. And one of those rules is that if you claim to be a SEAL or Special Forces or a Ranger, the pajama people can forward your name to the SEALs, the SF guys, or the Rangers to check out your bonafides. The real deal is VERY SERIOUS about shutting down lying little weenies in the real world, and the Associated Press had better get with the program.

What you said! Right on. We're eye-to-eye, brother.

BTW, this may have set the new world record for fastest busting of a fake SEAL.

[Criminal Number 18F]

BTW, this may have set the new world record for fastest busting of a fake SEAL.

We have to thank the highly organised SEAL community (including former & retired as well as active SEAL officers, chiefs and POs). Every time I am near one of the big wheels in our community I hammer on this: we should be doing the same thing for the integrity of our credentials.

The big wheels usually tell me to sit down and STFU (and I say "yes sir" and do just that).

I don't think that civilians can ever understand what it is to make your name in something that is very, very hard to get into, and then see some phony dragging your name -- your unit's name -- through the mud. It's like opening the door to your house and seeing someone punching your mom. Instant fight reflex.

Notice how many phonies the Left has had lately:

• Max Cleland -- misrepresented cause of his wounds

• Tom Harkin -- false claim of Vietnam service, he was a pilot, but in Japan, biggest danger he faced was if they talked him into trying the fugu

• Micah Wright -- false claims of combat, Ranger, atrocities -- he actually never served at all.

• Dan Rather -- false claim of Marine (he didn't complete boot camp).

• Baghdad Jim McDermott (D-WA) false claim of Vietnam vet. Amended to Vietnam-era vet when he was caught.

• David Bonior, Baghdad Jim's date on that trip to fluff Saddam, false claim of Vietnam vet. (Bonior made it as close to RVN as, I believe, Long Beach. If he were running the country it would be part of Vietnam perhaps, but he isn't, so it ain't).

  Which brings us to the heart attack daddy of the phonies, their very Lizard King:

• John Kerry -- false claim of... well, buy the book, that's a start, but it's only a beginning. He spent years claiming he was Irish (a smart political move in Massachusetts, I suppose).

Do we see a pattern emerging here...?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F