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corner.nationalreview.com - 8/20/2008
Cross-in-the-Dirt Update
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The Talking Points Memo website, winner of the George Polk Award for journalism and a favorite of top journalists like Bill Moyers and Hendrick Hertzberg, is leading this morning with 'Solzhenitsyn Scholar: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened,' followed by 'Bogus Story Popularized By Watergate Figure Chuck Colson, Jesse Helms' and 'Allegation: McCain Copied POW Story' (linking to Andrew ...

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Weekly Standard Blog:  Required Reading: More Morons with Modems!

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Required Reading: More Morons with Modems!
Weekly Standard Blog — ... As Byron York points out, this story is unlikely to go away. Obama supporters actually think they have a winner in disputing a story John McCain has told about his years in the Hanoi Hilton and that his bunkmates have corroborated. It’s a brilliant plan – how could the American public not warm to a campaign that calls some of our most highly decorated Veterans liars and whle bringing increased attention to John McCain’s wartime heroics? Besides, it’s not like Obama didn’t show amazing courage himself as a younger man while intrepidly prowling the notoriously rough lecture halls ...

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The Cross In The Dirt, Ctd
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 8/18/2008 — Many readers have noted that versions of this story - attributed to Solzhenitsyn by Chuck Colson - have been a staple of evangelical sermons for a very long time. They aren't always attributed to Solzhenitsyn, but this sermon , preached by Father ...
The Solzhenitsyn Factor — Matthew Yglesias
What does it say about the state of American literacy that it’s taken this deep into the “cross in the dirt” controversy for the fact that this anecdote doesn’t actually appear in any of Solzhenitsyn’s writings to come to light? Instead of something Solzhenitsyn wrote, this is just something that Chuck Colson once falsely attributed to Solzhenitsyn. The recent ...
John McCain's Cross to Bear — Hit & Run
The blogosphere is Huffin' and puffin'  over whether John McCain's anecdote about a Vietnamese prison guard silently drawing a cross next to him in the dirt–a story he retold at this weekend's religion debate–is either A) ripped off from Alexander Solzhenitsyn , B) a case of co-opting a story that happened to some other prisoner , C) some weird Chuck Colson story as ...