[lbo-talk] Marc Cooper and the myths that vets make up about beingspat on

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Thu Aug 26 18:51:50 PDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen E Philion" <philion at hawaii.edu>


> An interesting phenomenon over at Marc Cooper's blog comments section.
> In a comments section for a post on the Swift Boat Vets controversy, I
> made a quip about Oneill likely claiming to have been spat on at some
> point down the road. A rightwinger then angrily claimed to have been a
> vet and proceeded to recount his own tale of being 'spat on'. I picked
> apart his bogus story and Cooper went ballistic, insisting that if the
> guy said he was spat on, then by golly he was spat on!

How would you know? I'd take their stories with a grain of salt, but I wouldn't feel confident dismissing them out of hand.

-- Luke



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