It ends up that Beauchamp has recanted his story in The New Republic and stated that there was only a “smidgen” of truth to it.
I dunno; a smidgen sounds like plenty of truth to me. Exactly how much truth do you Right Wing Noise Machine Nazis want a news story defaming our troops to have before it gets published? Would half true be true enough? Do you want it to be mostly true? What unreasonable standards do you people have about news reporting?
Well, we here at IMAO think a smidgen of truth is plenty. In our eyes, TNR is vindicated, and Beauchamp should get an itty-bitty smidgen of a medal for his courageous telling of fractional truths.
There are liars, losers and self-loathing miscreants in all walks of life. TNR managed to find one among our warriors. But they support the troops!
Personally, I prefer a modicum of truth. My husband’s got a higher standard, he prefers 3/8ths truth.
Shouldn’t his pay be proportional to his truth telling? Tell a smidgen of truth and receive a smidgen of pay!
By the way – smidgen is a great word. Can it be incorporated into a John Edwards Fabulous Fact?
There is truth and their is truthier truth. He was just trying to get past the truth to the truthiness so as to get to the real TRUTH
As Einstein might say, “It’s all relative and it depends on the smidgen.”
If you have just a smidgen of cinnamon in your Snickerdoodles, well, that smidgen is really not enough, now is it? A smidgen of pigeon poop, however, is a smidgen too much.
One man’s cinnamon is another man’s pigeon poop.
I think Beauchamp needs a “smidgen” of lead from a soldier’s rifle.
I’ve cooked dinner with a smidgen before.
The little bastage drank all of my beer.