As pointed out by, er, "smengie" in a comment over at Tim Blair's, Micah Wright didn't exactly invent the idea of repurposing old war posters. "Oh, how brilliant, he Photoshopped a new slogan on it! Now it says something totally different!" People were doing that kind of stuff way before the evil geniuses at Something Awful did a bunch of them back in April 2002, but that's the one I have a link to, so there you go. A lot of these posters beat the hell out of Wright's leaden, self-righteous attempts at wit, but unfortunately for them, none of these guys ever claimed to be Rambo to drum up interest in a book deal.
And check out this message board thread at SOCNET. It's a site for Special Forces folks, and a place to compare notes on people they suspect are wannabes. They're the ones who have been after Wright for over a year to prove his Ranger status. In this particular thread, one of the members talks about contacting the distributor of Wright's now-cancelled book, asking if they realized the Ranger stuff was all made up, and providing links to the evidence. Now, this person e-mailed them on April 17, so... was that before Wright had his crisis of conscience, or after? It's tough to keep the timeline straight. Oh, and page 3 of that thread has a scan of the WP article. The picture is priceless.
Still waiting for Kevin Parrott to squawk about his run-in with Wright last year, but at least he's got a photo from a parallel universe where the man actually has a conscience.
Posted by Jim Treacher at May 4, 2004 02:33 AM