Occasionally I take a stroll over at Red State to see what they are talking about.
I was surprised today to see they've actually admitted that there was probably nothing to Drudge's report of CNN journalist Michael Ware heckling of Sen. McCain.
Join me on the flip to sample Red State saying "whoops, my bad"
Well, almost....
Front paged this morning at Red State was this surprising entry:
Backing Down From Michael Ware
The first paragraph contains the surprising admission, Ware probably didn't not heckle McCain:
Perhaps it was all an April Fool's joke gone terribly wrong. Drudge put up a nice little blurb about CNN reporter Michael Ware heckling Senator McCain at a press conference in Iraq. The news got picked up by the blogosphere, but after two days and nothing further from Drudge, it appears it probably did not happen. Video from the press conference does not seem to indicate Senator McCain was heckled.
I won't bore you with the rest of the article, which pretty much concludes that Ware is still low-life pond scum, despite the fact that his biggest crime is reporting facts that contradict a war-mongering Republican.
Nothing to see here, move along.
But WAIT!!!!!!!
There's an update. New Information, maybe Ware really is a pond-scum heckler!
[UPDATED:] The AFP ran this article on Sunday after the press conference and noted this:
"I studied warfare. I'm a student of history. If you control the capital city of a nation you have a significant advantage," countered McCain as one reporter giggled at the back.
Perhaps that was Mike Ware. This would also explain why the press conference ended when Ware then tried to ask a question. Hmmm . . . . maybe everyone is being too quick to back away from this.
OMG, an unidentified reporter, gasp, "giggled" in the back of the room.
It must of been Ware!
So I was curious about the source of this "giggling scoop". Who or what is this AFP news source? Are they reliable? Curious, I took to the Internet Tubes and I used The Google. Finding AFP website: AFP and discovered "AFP" is short for "Agence France-Presse"
My, my, that sounds very "French" to me.
Is that the sad condition that Red State has fallen to today, that it relies on news articles written by the French press!
What would The General have to say about that! :-)