''Bring us home now" (Leftist Fiction?-what say ye?)

Scoop ^ | 10-13-2003 | Jay Shaft

[Burkeman1]

? you lost me?

[Travis McGee]

USA-- -“I have a four year degree in the economics field and I am not a soldier all the time. I am Reservist who just keeps getting caught on long duty assignments. Believe it or not I read authors like Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, and Jim Hightower, and went through three copies of ‘Stupid White Men’ by Michael Moore while I was over there. I let people read parts of Mike’s book and they were irate that Bush had screwed us so hard. I had parts of ‘Best Democracy Money Can Buy’ mailed to me because I knew if I had the whole book it would get stolen in a heartbeat.”

Pure-d crapola. Written by a Euro without a doubt, tin notes on every line. They'll believe it in Eurolandia, though. But who cares about a bunch of cowardly homos?

[section9]

You know, it just occured to me that this entire interview might have been a made-up scam.

I can't put my finger on it, but someone once posted the story of a left wing Marine who read Chomsky during the Gulf War in 1990. This story seems eerily similar to that one.

The casualty lists and the assorted profanities are embellishments, I suspect. One guy saying his unit lost thirty men is beyond suspicion. The only time we had a big loss was when we lost eighteen Marines at An-Nasiriyah in late March. A big fight that was, but the Marines took it.

This guy is an SNCO in an Army outfit.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[dighton]

I can't wait to see this piece deconstructed as only those Freepers who have served in the armed forces can do.

In case you missed it, see Poohbah's line-by-line demolition (#27).

[Travis McGee]

Good catch! It's that famous "Chomsky reading Marine," recycled!