At Fox News, the Colonel Who Wasn't

The New York Times ^ | 04/29/2002 | JIM RUTENBERG

[aristeides]

Didn't Drudge have a story a couple of weeks ago that some network military expert was going to be exposed as claiming credentials he did not have? I take it this is what he was talking about.

[laconic]

Sounds like Mr. Cafasso had been reading too many novels, seeing too many James Bond movies and doing a whole lot of lying. He has a real nerve claiming to have won the Silver Star.

[BluH2o]

Is there a picture of this guy? The name I recall, but I can't remember what he looked like ...

[ContentiousObjector]

Are all these military media whores drama queens?

[Pokey78]

This one from the story. Haven't found any more yet.

[spectre]

"Stolen Valor"

I can't stand people like him. Glad he got caught.

[Cicero]

The New York Times must have been delighted to find and publish this story. But I wish they would clean up their own house first. It sounds as if Cafasso--even though he may be a con man--is a more reliable source than most of the reporters who work for the Times.

[John H K]

Not long afterward Mr. Cafasso began to work with the presidential campaign of Patrick J. Buchanan, helping it collect petitions in Texas and then in Oklahoma and Georgia.

How surprising...a worthless lying fraud working for a worthless lying fraud.

[TheOtherOne]

Presenting oneself falsely as US Armed Forces is truly one of the most pathetic acts one can do. Sadly, it happens far too often.

DITHF

[Retired Chemist]

From the original post: Fox News would not be the first news organization to be deceived. The New York Times in March reported the account of a former Russian army officer who said he fled the fighting in Chechnya in 1999 to escape pressure to kill civilians. On Saturday, The Times quoted Russian officials and acquaintances as saying he was not serving in the army at the time

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...and still, ever since the Attacks of Sept 11th, FoX News Channel refuses to employ a BOB DORNAN who is educating America about the threat Islam really poses to our Freedom on his Daily.. www.TalkRadioNetwork.com ..National Talk Radio Show....?

NUTS

[MinuteGal]

Shades of Fred Demara, "The Great Imposter" (as played by Tony Curtis in the film with the same name).

Heheh, I love it when the media gets bamboozled, even if it's Fox, sigh, giggle).

Leni

[The Great Satan]

Shades of Deep In The Hurtgen Forest, more like.

[Governor StrangeReno]

Colonel as in Sanders,Silver Star as in Toys R Us

[BluH2o]

Thanks for the picture ... don't recognize him from that angle, but I'm sure at some point I've seen
him on Fox.

[TONEMAN]

Any Serviceman who leaves the service, for whatever reason, is given multiple copies of his DD 214, listing all qualifications, promotions, commendations, and awards. Anyone who cannot produce the goods, or who claims that his exploits are "off the books", should get your BS meter howling. There are way too many barstool Rangers around, and Fox is guilty of shoddy work by taking this guy at face-value.

[Reagan is King]

A slap in the face to the REAL men and women that serve. Lying sack of #$#@!