Aidan Delgado Story Getting BlogswarmedPower Line
checks in here. Apparently the issue of bottles versus cans has been resolved; bottles did indeed exist according to
commenters at Mudville Gazette. One of Hinderaker's emailers notes the similarity to Kerry:
Recall that John Kerry gave sworn testimony before Congress that he and other troops “routinely” committed atrocities and war crimes in Viet Nam. Kerry’s exaggerations, hearsay statements, and outright lies were celebrated by the press, and launched a career seeking the presidency. Some things never change.That's why I called him the
John Kerry of his generation two days ago.
One interesting thing about Delgado that I haven't seen elsewhere. Although Delgado (as Power Line suggests) has been a fixture on the anti-war lecture circuit and appears on over
3400 web pages per Google, there are only 4 news sites on Google that mention his name (one of which is Power Line). The New York Times had never mentioned his name prior to Herbert's column. Since we assume his charges could not have been unknown to journalists, this suggests to me that the media had looked into his story and found it less than credible. And this makes sense, for if you look at where Delgado is mentioned on the web, included in the top ten are goofball lefty sites like Alternet, Information Clearing House, Democracy Now, Indy Media, etc.
Hat Tip:
Grendel's Dragon, who has a good recap of the story so far.
