Monday, May 03, 2004
The Propagandist Exposed
The Washington Post and the blogosphere tag team to expose a fraud.
In a nutshell, there's a graphic artist named Micah Wright who has published a book of anti-Bush parodies of old war propaganda posters. A second book was due to come out within a few weeks.
You can view the posters here.
Well, it seems Micah's been telling everyone in sight that he was an army Ranger paratrooper in Operation Just Cause in 1989, and he's seen dead kids, and has killed people for the first Bush administration, and lording his combat experiences over anyone who criticized him. He even published a chapter on his experiences as a combat Ranger in Panama in his first book.
Well, it turns out that it was all lies.
The Post's Richard Leiby--the same guy who outed Mariane Pearl's affair with CNN's Eason Jordan--followed up on a tip from some suspicious Rangers who never heard of the guy, and tried to get Wright to verify his service. Easy to do--just print a copy of your DD214 off of the Internet and fax it to the Post. But Wright didn't cooperate, and so Leiby had to file Freedom of Information Act requests on Wright's records.
Wright is a fraud.
It's a shame. Although I do object to the Nazi parallels he draws and to some borderline mockery of American dead--I thought the guy had a pretty good ear and eye for satire.
Hat tips: I got it from Greyhawk, who got it from Michelle Catalano, who got it from Jim Treacher.
In a nutshell, there's a graphic artist named Micah Wright who has published a book of anti-Bush parodies of old war propaganda posters. A second book was due to come out within a few weeks.
You can view the posters here.
Well, it seems Micah's been telling everyone in sight that he was an army Ranger paratrooper in Operation Just Cause in 1989, and he's seen dead kids, and has killed people for the first Bush administration, and lording his combat experiences over anyone who criticized him. He even published a chapter on his experiences as a combat Ranger in Panama in his first book.
Well, it turns out that it was all lies.
The Post's Richard Leiby--the same guy who outed Mariane Pearl's affair with CNN's Eason Jordan--followed up on a tip from some suspicious Rangers who never heard of the guy, and tried to get Wright to verify his service. Easy to do--just print a copy of your DD214 off of the Internet and fax it to the Post. But Wright didn't cooperate, and so Leiby had to file Freedom of Information Act requests on Wright's records.
Wright is a fraud.
It's a shame. Although I do object to the Nazi parallels he draws and to some borderline mockery of American dead--I thought the guy had a pretty good ear and eye for satire.
Hat tips: I got it from Greyhawk, who got it from Michelle Catalano, who got it from Jim Treacher.
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