This morning Atrios posted about this article by Kathleen Parker and shortly afterward the offensive line he mentioned was edited.
Parker claimed to have received an e-mail from a ‘friend and former Delta Force member’ who allegedly wrote her the following:
Excerpted from Politics are out of place in time of war
Miller is not alone, though some are more sanguine when it comes to evaluating the roster of contenders. Here’s a note I got recently from a friend and former Delta Force member, who has been observing American politics from the trenches: “These bastards like Clark and Kerry and that incipient ass, Dean, and Gephardt and Kucinich and that absolute mental midget Sharpton, race baiter, should all be lined up and shot.”
End of Excerpt
The article can’t be accessed through Google in either the original or edited form at this time.
Hesiod scanned a copy of the original which you can find here:
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Parker e-mailed Townhall.com personally asking them to change the line to ‘lined up and slapped‘ according to an e-mail exchange she had with a poster in Atrios’ comment section.
Shame on Parker for politicising the war, eh? It’ll be interesting to see if the original hits the press anywhere. Interesting to note how quickly these conservative columnists can scrub Google. A couple of months ago Cal Thomas managed to wipe Google clean of a completely unfounded hatchet job he did on Clinton but not before it hit print. Yet despite his syndicator sending out a letter to their customers informing them of the situation and telling them to pull the column immediately, Thomas never issued a retraction that I ever read. He just pretended it never happened. And so did my local, which published it.