In a new column that came out today, Lipscum practically came right out and claimed post-traumatic stress disorder - a condition that commonly afflicts war vets - is a big hoax by the peace movement and the big, mean media to pump up the number of casualties caused by war. He didn't put it in those exact words, but that was the gist of his piece.
In a staggering run-on sentence, Lipscomb whines that "claims of injuries from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are being used to grossly inflate the casualty rate and establish a whole new class of dubious 'victims.'" He blames this largely on "those who hate the American military."
You're a loon, Thomas.
Lipscomb's piece is more or less a diatribe against veterans who have PTSD. He baselessly accuses injured vets of bilking the system, as he doubts the validity of PTSD diagnoses.
His attitude is enough to make you vomit.
In earlier unreadable columns, Thomas Lipscomb mercilessly attacked the military careers of John Kerry and Wesley Clark.
Right-wing websites that carry Lipscomb's pieces often claim Lipscomb was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his bogus reporting on Kerry in the 2004 campaign. But it turned out that this was a lie: Lipscomb's name was nowhere to be found on the Pulitzer folks' own list of nominees in 2004 or 2005.
This lie continues to be posted with his articles, 2 years after it was debunked.
If Lipscomb lies about something like that, can you really trust him?
It's sickening that the wingnutosphere chooses patriotic holidays to attack veterans who have PTSD - but no longer a surprise, because they stab vets in the back on all the other days lately too.
(Source: http://kerryblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/truth-about-thomas-lipscomb.html)
Monday, May 26, 2008
Right-wing columnist calls PTSD a hoax
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