The Inky Smears Patrick Again

Atrios found some patented absurdity in this Inky column on Patrick Murphy today (here), but I’d like to share some other nonsense that I found with you.

But his national profile as an antiwar leader has not come without costs. Though he did not see furious combat in Iraq, Murphy has taken substantial incoming at home, including friendly fire.

From his web site…

In 1993, Congressman Murphy put on his U.S. Army uniform for the first time. He went on to become a West Point professor, airborne and air assault qualified, a JAG Corps attorney, and serve two deployments after 9/11 - the first to Bosnia in 2002 and the second to Baghdad, Iraq in 2003-2004 as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. For his service, Captain Murphy earned the Bronze Star for service and his unit earned the Presidential Unit Citation.

I’ll let you, dear reader, define how “furious” that was.

And…

At the same time, a lucrative memoir deal has raised questions about the timing of Murphy's advance payment.

Oh brother. And by the way, Goldstein will decide to answer those questions waaay down in the column, after which point many readers, I’m afraid, will have bailed out. Also…

Like the six-footer in middle school, Murphy stood out in the freshman class: handsome in a suit, shoes spit-shined, all dark pompadour and shining eyes, often accompanied by his wife, Jenny, and newborn daughter, Maggie. Among the eager-to-please, he practically panted.

Like a dog, Goldstein? Who the hell edits this stuff? And finally…

Maybe that phrase - "he says he was there" - was intentional, a remnant from Fitzpatrick's supporters. Any slight rankles Murphy, who wears his Army lapel pin on all his suit coats.

A slight like that definitely would “rankle” me had I served also, since it implied that I was lying.

With each passing day, I am more and more glad that we give not one dime to this newspaper any more.