It’s also worth remembering that people who are as politically strident as Wright is tend to have serious personal problems in other areas, too. I’m no more surprised that Wright has spent the past few years with bullshit gushing out of him like a brown geyser than I am that Ted Rall is pathologically vindictive, or that Bill Bennett is a closet gambling addict, or that Newt Gingrich served divorce papers to his bedridden cancer-patient wife, and on and on and on.
And it’s also also worth remembering, as Jimmy the T has been pointing out, that this is not a hoax. This is not Micah Wright saying to Newsarama and the Pulse (and the WaPo, for that matter), “you’ve been punk’d, dude!” Nor was the Army Rangers thing something he mentioned once that snowballed, or something he tried to keep quiet. This is a guy who invented a dangerous, I-risked-my-life-for-my-country-and-now-I-see-the-error-of-my-ways life story out of whole cloth, and humped it constantly, in order to make himself look good, back up his shrill and belligerent politics, impress potential publishers and employers, sucker fans and consumers, and make money. The day before he was to be outed to the world, he “came clean,” but immediately began blaming everyone from George W. Bush (surprise!) to lazy fact-checkers to the corporate media to–aw, who cares? The man is a liar. And if you were a fan of his work, he’s stolen your money, hasn’t he?