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That's the one, injest. The one that we libs used to try to further cast aspersions on McCain. The one that got propped all the way to the front page. The one that, when debunked, had a story explaining the debunking receive a rousing score of 1.0 on Propeller. It was the same story that had all of DailyKos talking. It was as if we liberals had a party with copious amounts cherry kool-aid punch. It left our mouths the color of blood.

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"Is that the same Solzhenitsyn that has NO reference EVER to a “Cross In the Dirt” story?"

Are you calling both Michael Goldfarb, McCain's lap dog from PNAC, and Billy Graham liars?

"Graham (Texas Tech, University, Sept. 3, 1975): Alexander Solzhenitsyn was over here recently, remember? And he toured around the country. And he told a little story that everybody ought to hear..."

http://tinyurl.com/5vnkat

"The story Solzhenitsyn told was of a prisoner who drew a cross in the dirt in a Soviet Gulag. McCain's story is of a guard who drew a cross in the dirt in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp..."

http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport/Read.aspx?guid=181471d0-5456-4434-9f78-2f30ffc39459

"Turns out according to a Solzhenitsyn biographer, the story appears nowhere in his published writing."

It doesn't appear anywhere in Solzhenitsyn's published writing? So I suppose that means it never happened either or was Solzhenitsyn a liar too?

It's getting awfully hard to wade through all the BS in your comment, injest and I'm saying that only because I didn't bring my BS wading boots.

"Columbia University professor Michael Scammell, the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, says the episode “never happened,” and didn’t appear in Solzhenitsyn’s book, Gulag Archipelago, either”"

When did he say that and more importantly to whom? You see I have it on good authority that Scammell said:

"I've been consulting with other Solzhenitsyn experts on the Colson story and nobody seems to know if it happened or not. Certainly no one I know can confirm it."

http://tinyurl.com/5vnkat

I've found that usually when academics have no evidence corroborating a claim they say precisely that and claim that something didn't happen only if they have evidence to the contrary, then again maybe Scammell is also lying, right?

So riddle me this injest, what's more likely that all the people are lying and you are the only one telling the truth or that you are lying? We'll ignore your stellar reputation for "telling it like it is".

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