Excuse me? Are you hallucinating? Nobody here actually NOTICED the bleeping video until I wrote that there was a video that righties were calling fake. That was the point of the bleeping post.

In fact, if you go back and read, we were all skeptical of the veracity of the video. The only one inclined to believe it (and he still admitted it might be fake) was justme in comment 5.

If, on the other hand, the purpose is to inform, and through that sharing of information better equip ourselves to make a fundamental change for the better, don’t you think owe it to your fellow Americans to at least make an attempt at objectivity?

Now you’ve pissed me off. If your purpose is to comment, then don’t you think you owe it to your fellow Americans to at least make an attempt to READ BEFORE YOU CRITICISE?

I tried being nice, but you are so banned now. Bye.

I notice that everyone who has participated was more than willing to take Mr. Macbeth at face value, until “the righties” raised the issue of his credibility.This is not only true here, but generally throughout the liberal media. One person even went so far as to state that “if the righties think he is a fake, they should PROVE IT.”
Most other objections to Mr Macbeths allegations have been couched in “if he is a fake…” terms.
In short everyone was willing to accept his statements as factual, until proven otherwise.

This is completely illogical from an objective viewpoint.
Mr. Macbeth has made some very serious allegations, and it is incumbent upon the theorist to offer proof, not the other way around. Disproving a negative is a fallacy of logic.

Before ANY of you accepted these allegations as truthful, what standards of proof did you require? One of you wrote “he may well be fake….but I won’t buy it from the swift boat crowd….show me the records.”
A reasonable response would be ,” Why didn’t you ask that of Mr Macbeth to begin with?”
If your daughter needed brain surgery one might think your standards for acceptance of a doctors qualifications might be just a tad higher than what you have demanded here, which is none.
Especially if the only assertion of his comptetence was a scrawled diploma that read ” Oksfird Univirsatie Brane Sirjun” , which differs from Mr Macbeths professed credentials only in the matter of subject.

If the purpose of this blog is simply to bash the President or the current administration, why bother to ask for proof at all, or to couch your opinions as anything other than just that, an opinion?
We do live in an open society where we may have any opinion we want, from flag waving arch conservative to Mao quoting leftist.

If, on the other hand, the purpose is to inform, and through that sharing of information better equip ourselves to make a fundamental change for the better, don’t you think owe it to your fellow Americans to at least make an attempt at objectivity?

I should think bush would be eager, however, to leak the proof to his minions that this guy is a liar ….it bothers me somewhat that bush co. would leave their serfs to run with the story, minus FACTS…..Why not give them the documents to blow this guys claim out of the water? We all know the military records could be out there for us to see NOW with only a FOIA request…and this could have been cleared up already … with only things to gain by having his military record out in the public eye one has to wonder why it is not…..

He may well be fake,,, but I won’t buy it from the swift boat crowd….show me the records!

Heckuva job once again.

Since the Army’s idea of a “uniform” seems to change more often than Parisian fashions, I have no idea what it ought to look like…

But if this bloke is a phony, chances are he’s a “plant”…As were so many of J. Edgar’s COINTELPRO-phylactics back in the day…

It worked pretty well for them back then…One thing you can be sure of about the RW: they never get tired of “Old Tricks”…And their audience never fails to fall for them…