Media
Cy Sun on his military service
Last month, based on media reports, we briefly discussed the case of Cy Sun, the veteran who won a write-in campaign against the incumbent mayor of Pacific, CA WA, against whom political opponents lodged charges that he was breaking the laws against Stolen Valor. The media, of course, was quick to report on the charges. […]
Veterans benefit battle
Peggy sent us a link from a local Memphis TV station about Tshonba Bernard, supposedly a veteran of the war against terror, even though they don’t mention which battlefields who is unable to get veterans benefits from the VA who says that they can’t find a reason for his claim for PTSD. Here’s a screenshot […]
Matthis update
Matthis made a celebrity appearance at a recruiting station, somewhere. I’m guessing it’s in New York City since his squeeze Elaine Brower is there, and she doesn’t leave the city very often. But, apparently, he’s been busy eating up his VA benefits in college. Those benefits that he didn’t see a value in earning when […]
Study: Conservatives and racists are stupid
So Joe sent us this link thinking I wouldn’t post it. It’s from NorthwestOhio.com and entitled “Conservatives and racists are actually stupid, study finds” and the title is misleading. What the article actually reports is that the stupid become ideologues; A new study bound to stir controversy found that people with a low I.Q. are […]
TAH in the Washington Post
I spent a few minutes on the phone with Erik Wemple this morning who writes about the media in the Washington Post. He wanted to hear about how we took down the Leo Webb lie. So I gave you guys props; Lilyea says he’s “85 to 90 percent sure” that it was his readers who […]
TAH bats 1000
About our Leo Webb super sniper who saw half of his squadron wiped out. Kevin emailed the senior editor of the Perspectives project and warned him about Webb, to which Mark Trautwein responded; Mr. Webb has been subsequently placed in a VA live-in care facility specializing in PTSD so I’m unable to seek his response […]
MSNBC fact checkers declared dead
TSO sends an article in keeping with our media fact-checking theme today. It’s about a veteran who depends on his disability check being declared dead by a dead government agency; The U.S. Veterans Administration has declared him dead four times, but Miller, a Brevard County resident, has refuted the claims. “To me, it’s stupid. I […]
S&S admits they were duped
Stars & Stripes just published a follow up to the story we did yesterday about Larry Marquez who claimed to have served in Cambodia while he was 16. The word I’m getting from people in his unit is that when his first sergeant called him in, after word came down from the brigade commander after […]
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