Jpg copies of 12 articles are located on page 2; Spitting on Vets a Myth?

The three full published articles I have read by Lembcke are sufficient for learning of his claims and conclusions.

The skewering Lembcke claims and conclusions received at the hands of Jim Lindgren at Volokh on Thursday (with more to come) are, as I suspected they would be when investigated by someone else, sufficient to repudiate both the claims and the conclusions, and eliminate the need for a time-wasting read of Lembcke’s book (link is to my post, which expands a bit on one aspect of what Lindgren did and found):

http://bizzyblog.com/?p=4551

This is a real win/win — I don’t waste my time reading a book that’s a pack of lies, and you lose all validity any criticism attempted oriented around the fact that I didn’t read it might have had. Isn’t it neat how that works? :–>

It also eliminates the need to embarrass you further by posting your most recent comment, so I won’t do that either. You benefit twice. Who said I’m not generous?

Again, you don’t get it. LEMBCKE is the one with a lot of work to do, no matter what his book says, because of all of the new claims that have surfaced regardless of whether he debunked all previous claims (itself highly doubtful, based on the litany of responses to his prior published articles).

If you have nothing more constructive to say except to attempt to question my justification for having an opinion, which is about the weakest line of argument one can concoct in the circumstances, you’ll do everyone a favor by going away — especially yourself, because you’re proving yourself to be as empty as they come, and you, like Lembcke and his acolytes, are embarrassing themselves.

In a recent related post, you based your position on Bob Greene’s book. Have you read Greene’s book?

Besides, the inventory of what he needs to debunk has gone up exponentially in the past 10 days or so. So HE is the one with a lot of work to do, NOT me.

“From all appearances” suggests you’ve read Prof. Lembcke’s book in order to learn whether he addressed these issues. Have you?

FWIW, I’ve actually had a form of verification come to me in comment #4 at one of the earlier posts, where a DIFFERENT featured Holy Cross alum (Del Vecchio) other that the two in the magazine who so matter-of-factly reported being spat on (MacDougald and Bowen) weighed in.

Sloat just this morning looked at some of what the VA has done, and (of course) found material legitimizing the claims.

There’s a point at which this should extremely embarrassing to the holdouts. We’re well past that point. “I was wrong, I am sorries” are way overdue.

The bane of accurate data collection and accurate news gathering is anecdotal reports. Many may claim to have been abducted by aliens or spotted the Loch Ness monster. Those reports may even make it into print or onto a broadcast. That doesn’t mean they really happened.

Across the political spectrum, bloggers often share one complaint - poor reporting by the popular media. Were the above anecdote’s verified or did the reporters simply take dictation? We don’t know because Bizzy apparently hasn’t made any attempt to verify them. (By the way, all of Bizzy’s above examples are post-1980, which is in keeping with Prof. Lembcke’s theory that the spitting stories began popping up during the Reagan years.)

In addition to contacting the individuals in the above reports and interviewing them himself, Bizzy could present the above cases to Prof. Lembcke for comment. But that’s the other problem in this unfolding story by alleged journalists. Neither Bizzy nor Bill Sloat, who has published several critical articles about Prof. Lembcke - appear to have made the obvious move - contact Prof. Lembcke and review the information with him. I suspect they fear the consequences - especially career reporter Bill Sloat, who has much to lose if his claim of having been spit upon is fabricated.