The link: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact
Some of you may recall my one sided bet with Seymour Hersh, in which I wagered that the US would not attack Iran, as Sy had insisted we would, and if I won, Sy had to shut the fuck up. As we all know, the US didn't attack Iran, and Sy hasn't shut the fuck up.
Quite the contrary. Seymour is still busy talking. So busy talking, he can't even be bothered to think of new things to be wrong about.
As usual, Seymour has some sort of highly placed inside source, who's feeding him lots of secret info. As usual, Seymour thinks Bush is an asshole. As usual, Seymour is full of shit, knows nothing, and was probably just dry humping a coat-check boy at a Washington D.C. restaurant, and slipping him bills as long as he keeps roleplaying as “senior intelligence official.”
Now, I realize that all of the “dirt” Seymour is turning up is not really dirt, and is, in fact, completely obvious. Like, everyone in the MSM is terrified of Iran. Bush obviously doesn't want them to get a nuke. Bush definitely likes to bomb people into compliance. It's no mystery that Bush would at least be considering and preparing a military option.
What's a complete mystery, though, is how Seymour Hersh can keep inserting himself into this particular situation, and not die of humiliation. In January of 2005, Seymour was certain that we were going to attack Iran, and was completely wrong. His “sources” were wrong. And now he's back, peddling the same, sad, “insider information,” and he doesn't even have the decency to find a new topic to make shit up about.
Is this seriously the sort of person that the American liberal intelligentsia places at their vanguard? How nice would it be to be so free to fabricate sources, so unaccountable to the truth?
Yeah, I was interviewing a respected member of American military intelligence, one Captain Firedog, and he says Seymour Hersh is a sad, sad, little clown, and he has satellite imagery to prove it.
Seymour. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.