This is what one blog is saying about Hitchens...........
Christopher Hitchens was Punk'd!
By Andy Vance
Christopher Hitchens appears to have made a humongous, slanderous mistake in his Slate column about Cindy Sheehan on Monday.
TPM readers questioned the source of a quote Hitchens dredged up from a letter Sheehan supposedly wrote to ABC's Nightline. It said, in part, "Yes, [Casey Sheehan] was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel."
Sheehan says she never wrote that, and that the letter has been altered.
Aug 17, 2005 -- 06:00:12 PM EST
The letter has been cited at length on right-wing message boards, most of which link to post in Google's discussion boards, where the letter is printed in full. I thought parts of the letter were suspicious, as if they had been written by someone with military experience. Notice the how the how the author uses acronyms, place names and dates in this paragraph:
The very worst thing of all, is that my son was sent to rescue some fellow soldiers trapped in an ambush in the back of a LMTV..which is basically an open air trailer. It would be the equivalent of driving through Dallas on 11/22/63 in a Convertible. The troops stationed at FOB War Eagle were sent ahead of their tanks and Bradleys!!!
In her post on DailyKos, Sheehan seems to confirm that the letter was altered, possibly by someone she copied in on the original e-mail:
I wrote the letter to Ted Bettag [at ABC, I'm assuming] and cc'd a copy to the person who gave me Ted's address. I believe he (the person who gave me the address) changed the email and sent it out to capitalize on my new found notoriety by promoting his own agenda. Enough about that.
So, does Hitch owe Cindy Sheehan an apology?
tpmcafe.com |
