Reagan said it best: "[T]he trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so."

Another Vietnam "war hero," according to the left, is poor Max Cleveland. Bill and Hillary are always bringing him up as a victim of the rightwing hate machine. It turned out that Cleveland accidentally blew off his own limbs in an incident in which beer was involved. That doesn't make him a phony soldier, but it doesn't make him a hero either.

First it was Don Imus.

Then it was Bill O'Reilly.

Now it is Rush Limbaugh.

Who will be next?

Just for the record, Banjo, his name is Max CLELAND. And, according to his Wikipedia entry, the grenade fell off one of his buddies flak jackets after exiting a helipcopter.

I'm no fan of his by any means, but the suggestion that he may have been drunk and caused his own injuries is simply not factually accurate.

And it's kinda irrelevant to the whole Rush Limbaugh smear...

I stand corrected on Cleland.

Hmmmmm.

@ CBT

I'm no fan of his by any means, but the suggestion that he may have been drunk and caused his own injuries is simply not factually accurate.

Frankly I wouldn't trust WikiPedia on this. While they have that in quotations, they don't actually *cite* anything as the source of the quotations.

Perhaps the original meme is wrong, that Max Cleland was drinking beer with some buddies, saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up whereupon it detonated. But if so I'd like to see something, anything, actually cited.

Let's face it. The Democrats have a huge political investment in Max Cleland's military career. And it sounds a lot better that he was injured in an accident rather than because of doing something idiotic while under the influence of alcohol.