It's easy to see why Jimmy Massey be came an
instant darling of the liberal news media: With his personal testimony
that he and his fellow Marines, acting under direct orders, committed
war crimes, he was the Iraq war's iteration of Jane Fonda and John
Kerry.
And equally truthful.
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Former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey was the liberal media's dream come
true: An anti-war Iraq veteran who came forward to publicly lambaste the Bush
administration and accuse American troops of murdering innocent civilians.
Jimmy Massey was Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan and John Kerry all wrapped up
into one tidy, soundbite-friendly package -- a poster boy for peace topped off
by a military uniform and tattoos to boot. But like a lot of the agitators who
pose as well-meaning, good-faith peace activists, Jimmy Massey was something
else: A complete fraud.
[Read
on.]
Two newspapers, the
Modesto Bee and the
Sacramento Bee, did the right thing this weekend and published lengthy
explanations of how and why they came to publish the unverified claims of
former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey, the anti-war Left's favorite
slanderer of American troops.
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