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Lt. Steven Glass Now Writing For The New Republic From Iraq?The New Republic has had a long and troubled past with too-ideologically-good-to-be-true, too-difficult-to-verify but too-juicy-not-to-run stories in the past. Now an anonymous "soldier" is reporting for them (illegally, one presumes) from Iraq, and is telling implausible stories that just so happen to portray his "fellow soldiers" as vicious monsters. As "Steven Glass" recounted in Shattered Glass, "But there was a hole in their factual verification process -- stories posted by reporters in the field were only checked against the reporter's own notes for their accuracy." TNR claims to have plugged that hole, but how could they? There is simply no possible way TNR has a second source for this "soldier's" illegal "reportage," presumably done anonymously not only to avoid a court martial, but so as not to alert his fellow soldiers. So how can TNR claim any of these lurid, troop-bashing stories have been verified in any meaningful way? Incidentally... [E]ventually, we reached the bones. All children’s bones: tiny cracked tibias and shoulder blades. We found pieces of hands and fingers. We found skull fragments. No one cared to speculate what, exactly, had happened here, but it was clearly a Saddam-era dumping ground of some sort. Compare with John Kerry's Winter Soldier false testimony: They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam... Second verse same as the first, a little bit slower and a little bit worse. Are you mad at me, Chuck? Chuck, are you mad at me? Why won't you answer me, Chuck? The Weekly Standard is calling all servicemembers, milbloggers, and embeds: [W]e believe that the best chance for getting at the truth is likely to come from the combined efforts of the blogosphere, which has, in the past, proven adept at determining the reliability of such claims. To that end we'd encourage the milblogging community to do some digging of their own, and individual soldiers and veterans to come forward with relevant information--either about the specific events or their plausibility in general. Thanks to The Editor. Bonus Steven Glass Comparison! How did Glass get away with filing dozens of obviously fraudulent report, and getting them all published? Well, simple, really: He went for "colorful anecdotes" involving unnamed and unidentifiable people, the sort of thing that by its very nature could not be verified. And further, would never draw a single complaint from a maligned subject, because his subjects were simply entirely fictitious. It's dangerous to put fake words into the mouths of real people. It's less dangerous to put fake words into the mouths of fake people, who work for fake organizations, discover fake mass graves, etc., because who is there exactly to write in a letter of complaint saying "I never said that"? In one article, Glass claimed that he had encountered fanatical members of a new church worshipping a new deity, the Church of George Herbert Walker Christ, which held that the elder Bush ("Wouldn't be prudent") was in fact the second coming Jesus Christ Himself. And the TNR proudly published this. They never seemed to question why the Prince of Peace Himself couldn't miracle himself up a second term. After all, Glass' own notes confirmed he'd met such people! And not a single member of the Church of George Herbert Walker Christ ever demanded a retraction, soooo...
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