Fake but inaccurate
Just what is it with these lying antiwarriors and their ever-present wish to fraudulently represent themselves as SpecWar types, anyway?
Never mind, don’t answer that. Truth, liberals, garlic, vampires; you know the drill. Their version of “truth” is so weak and sickly it has to be carried around on the back of one robust lie after another.
Update! From Brad Staggs:
Today, the Army ran a check on Mr. MacBeth’s credentials. It turns out, not surprisingly to anybody with half a mind, that Mr. MacBeth has NO Army service record. Anywhere. Period.
Allah is all over the story of the Liberal Who Lied, as is Greyhawk. McQ gets in a few good licks of his own. And Uncle Jimbo notes perhaps the most satisfying aspect of it all:
Young El Debarge is cutting and running on all digital fronts and now has to look over his shoulder anytime he walks in a bar.
God, how I hope this Sgt. Rockette somehow finds himself in a Fayetteville, NC watering hole someday. He may walk in, but he’ll be carried out, that’s for sure. And the spectacular, life-changing ass-whupping he gets will be no less than he has coming. In fact, like a lot of liberals, if he’d had a bit more good solid discipline as a kid, up to and including a few righteous whippings when earned, he probably wouldn’t be in this mess at all. And, as Dale Franks says:
This guy’s story came out yesterday, and 24 hours later, it looks as if the guy’s a total poser (That’s right. “Poser”. I’m not French.). The information superhighway is cool. ‘Cause, you know, back in ‘68, this guy woulda been testifying before the Senate before anybody tracked this down.
Well, IF somebody tracked it down, that is. We already know very well the MSM wouldn’t, because stories of American war crimes and genocide track so nicely with their preferred “we have met the Evil Empire, and he is us” narrative. Doesn’t much matter to them whether those stories are, y’know, true. It never does, to propagandists.
And then, after a completely unremarkable career as a Senate cipher, a TK-lite, and a gigolo, the Democrats would’ve run him for President.
Out, damned Bush: Macbeth in ‘08! Can’t you just hear the LLL blog-squad sticking their fingers down their throats and forcing up some strained prattle about how PUMPED they all are about this candidate, a la Oliver Willis in ‘04? Can’t you just see every single MSM poll showing him with a 5-point lead over the Republican nominee, from the outset of the race right up until the last polling place closes? Can’t you just hear the anguished, angry cries of “They stole the election!” after the votes are tallied?
These pathetic losers can’t even lie successfully anymore — and lies are all they’ve ever really had.
- Entries
Kind of Mitty-esque.
I really don't know what drives the guys who pretend to be soldiers, though.
But when it is applied to a political argument, it becomes a kind of "reverse chickenhawk" theme. The "chickenhawk" theme, of course, says that anyone who supports the war is a hypocrite if they've never served in the armed forces. This "reverse chickenhawk" theme, then, says that those who have served and who are critical of the war are somehow entitled to greater deference and respect on account of their status as veterans.
Here's a quick-and-dirty guide to spotting military fakers: A person's military credentials should be considered suspect if they claim:
1. To have been a "sniper." For some reason, the idea of a sniper is fascinating to many people, especially the kind of obsessive fanboys who are often military fakers. A significant red flag should be raised if they tell you that their military records indicate that they have "XX number of 'confirmed kills.'" There is not, and never has been, any kind of registry or listing of "confirmed kills" for Army or Marine Corps snipers maintained by DOD as a part of military records, so anybody who says there is is a BS artist.
2. Rangers/SEALs/Special Forces: Not to say that there aren't such veterans out there, but this is one of the first things that fakers tend to go for. Here's a giveaway: Soldiers in the Special Forces never, ever, ever, ever, ever under any circumstances, refer to themselves or other SF soldiers as "Green Berets." So if anybody tells you "I was in the Green Berets" or "I was a green beret", there's about a 99% chance that they're full of shit.
3. POWs: This is another one that, frankly, perplexes me. The number of people who falsely claim to have been POWs (especially in Vietnam) exceeds the number of actual POWs by probably an order of magnitude. There are listings of every person who was ever held as a POW since Vietnam, so this one is actually pretty easy to debunk. As for why people might claim to be POWs, the only thing I can think of is that it is done in order to try to gain sympathy.
4. Anybody who says "I served in XXXX special ops unit" or "I was on XXXX super-secret mission, but the DoD 'sealed' my records." or some such. Or "My military records are classified" (everybody in the military has a personnel file, and it's not classified.)
5. Anybody who says "I was selected for a super-secret mission and they changed my records to show I was a clerk at a supply depot" or some such. Pure BS. The selection process for Special Ops units is usually rather long and difficult, and is conducted right out in the open for everyone to see. And believe me, people don't get selected for 'super secret missions' until they've completed all their training. To do otherwise would be ridiculous.
If someone is trying to pose as a veteran for a political scope, it's a rather poor strategic decision to choose elite forces: more difficult to join, they are a smaller community of selected people.
It would be better, strategically, to pretend having been just and average grunt
That's exactly what trips these people up. They can't just claim to be a supply clerk or an artilleryman, they have to claim all this high-speed stuff that is easy to check up on.
My favorite was the guy who, on his Yahoo profile, claimed to have won the Medal of Honor in Grenada!
Grr Grr Grr...
Awaiting Lying Leftard Loser spewing specious moral equivalence nonsense centering on conservative pundit in 3...2...1...
The difference between me and the lying leftard scumbags is that I know the part I played in defending this nation, however small, was honorable. It needs no embellishment to make me proud of it.
But since the closest these asshats get to the military is usually watching Platoon on Showtime they don't realize that.
Can't spell dumb without DU...
Makes it impossible these days for anyone to "TANG" someone, and a bloody good thing, too.
A good thing, if you think objective, impersonal truth is a good thing. If you're down on that "personal truth" thing and reality that can be folded, bent, spindled, and mutilated to fit your desires, then probably don't think it's such a good thing.
Not that I (or the universe) give a rat's behind about your "personal truth", sunshine. Just to be clear about things.
Anyone wanna take bets?
No word on whether the Rove/Bushitler Stupidly Evil Death Machine is responsible for the, ohh, thousand or so other idiotic lies that comprise the very foundation of their worldview.
These guys are DUmber than a hamster. They get burned on this again and again, but they can't keep away from the bait. "It sounds soooo good!"
ZAP!
"It sounds soooo good!"
ZAP!
Et Cetera.