Sarah Palin's favorite Navy Seal super sniper seems to have fibbed about the medals he won.

Courtesy of the Navy Times: 

The Navy has concluded there is no evidence that famed Navy SEAL Chris Kyle received two of the valor awards he had claimed in his best-selling memoir, including a second Silver Star. 

In an unusual move, the service has re-issued the DD-214 discharge paperwork to support the medals that the late Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Chris Kyle received during his 10-year Navy career, finding no records for two of six Bronze Stars with combat 'V' and the second Silver Star, two of which he had claimed in "American Sniper." However, the renowned SEAL sniper had earned the Silver Star and four Bronze Stars, the review confirmed. 

The Navy’s reissuing of the late Kyle's DD-214 adjusts his confirmed valor awards and continues to raise questions about other elements of Kyle's legendary story, including stories he told after he left the service in 2009. Already a combat hero, the second Silver Star would have made Kyle one of the Navy's most decorated service members in the post-9/11 era, which has drawn heavily on the skill and secrecy of special operations troops.

What? A person that Sarah Palin deified and all but drooled over was a lying piece of shit?

You could have knocked me over with a feather.

Does that mean that Kyle was also lying when he said this?

"Todd Palin is a badass!" 

Nah, obviously that part was true.

 My question would be, "Is there anybody that Sarah Palin admires who is NOT an habitual liar?"

Veteran's group accuses Bill O'Reilly of "stealing valor" and calling for him to be taken off the air. Also David Corn responds to Billo's rant against his Mother Jones article.

Courtesy of Media Matters:

VoteVets, a leading progressive veterans advocacy group, is calling on Fox News to take Bill O'Reilly off the air following revelations from Mother Jones that the Fox News host may have repeatedly misrepresented his experiences reporting on the 1982 Falklands War. 

"NBC acted completely appropriately in taking Brian Williams off the air and looking into claims he's made over the years. Fox News has to do the same thing," Jon Soltz, chairman of VoteVets.org, a 400,000-member organization that advocates for vets and military families, said in a statement. "The issue, for me, isn't that Fox has been caught off guard, and didn't realize O'Reilly was telling possibly false tales. That I can accept. It's what do they do about it now? That will tell us a lot about how seriously they take their news organization." 

 "Men and women have fought, died, been wounded, and scarred by war. There are many journalists who actually were in the crossfire, who died, trying to bring the story to the American people," Soltz added. "What Bill O'Reilly has done is steal their valor, and it is wrong." 

Soltz, a combat veteran of the Iraq War, said O'Reilly's misleading efforts are also an insult to veteran war correspondents.

"It makes it seem like anyone can head on over to a war zone," he said via email. "But honestly it is more insulting to the war reporters who never bragged about their war experience, but just kept their head down and did their job. Some of them died doing that job. In my mind, those reporters were heroes."

Nicely put.

However since VoteVets is a progressive group they are undoubtedly classified as not REAL veterans, much like non-Fox News viewers are classified as not REAL Americans.

Still you have to know that this will get under O'Reilly's paper thin skin and drive him out of his little tiny pea sized mind.

Speaking of getting under his skin, yesterday David Corn responded point by point (Much like I did yesterday.) to O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo rant last night:

O'Reilly responded to the story by launching a slew of personal invective. He did not respond to the details of the story. Instead, he called me a "liar," a "left-wing assassin," and a "despicable guttersnipe." He said that I deserve "to be in the kill zone." (You can read one of my responses here.) And in his show-opening "Talking Points memo" monologue on Friday evening, he continued the name-calling. 

In a way, it's impossible to win a debate with O'Reilly because he is not bound by reality. In response to the article, he told Fox News' media reporter, Howard Kurtz, "Nobody was on the Falklands and I never said I was on the island, ever." Yet our article included video of O'Reilly saying in 2013, "I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, where my photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us." Note the words "war zone" and "in the Falklands." 

If you read the article, and I suggest that you do, you will see that Corn addresses virtually all of O'Reilly's claims that the Mother Jones article was a hit piece, and once again points out the many discrepancies with O'Reilly's version of events around the Falkland war reporting, and the actual news reports that emerged from there during that time.

I have to admit that I kind of thought this story would really only be interesting for one or two days, but with O'Reilly's over the top attacks against Corn and his obvious inability to let anything go, this might actually become as big of a story as the Brian Williams Iraq exaggerations.

Here let me get the popcorn started.