Ed Schultz accuses Defense Dept of fraud on air
Yesterday, Ed Schultz accused the Defense Department of lying to active duty Reservists (by offering bonuses for extending their committments, and then renigging on the bonuses) in order to beef up recruitment numbers.
If this actually happened, it couldn't possibly be a simple error on somebody's part, now could it? It would have to be a premeditated scam. Because, well...this is Bush's military. And they're evil.
In his tale, Big Ed said that the bonuses were cancelled because the Pentagon claimed that they were a duplication of bonus programs already in place. Any offer/retraction incident couldn't be a result of poor communication or coordination. In Big Ed's fever-swamp mind, it must be a BushCheneyRoveRumsfeldWolfowitz conspiracy.
I've tried, to no avail, to find a story about this claim.
I've searched The Nation website for this- one must presume that they would love to herald a story that embarrasses the military. The wealth of military-dissing articles and columns there boggles the mind. The open contempt for our military is there for all the world to see.
But I found no articles about Big Ed's outrage, using "military bonuses" (that phrase would obviously be used) for the search. This is the most recent, but no cigar. This screed from the editor, from four months ago, gets me no kewpie doll, either. Neither does this or this.
I searched Drudge and came up empty. (His search tools for both Reuters and AP linked to WAPO search option. Weird.)
I looked in The Washington Times, MSN, Yahoo, and Google. No story about promised military bonuses being cancelled anywhere that I could find.
I wonder what Big Ed was spewing about....
Brad
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