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#23: Fact-Checking Flyweights
On page xii of Lies (p. xvi of the paperback), Franken brags of the "intellectual heavyweights" that he hired to help him with his book at Harvard. "Intellectual heavyweights"?!? Uh-uh.
On page 163 of Lies, Franken writes,
"[Former Georgia Senator] Max [Cleland] left three of his limbs in Vietnam. A VC grenade blew them off."
Well, suffice it to say that even Senator Cleland, a true champion and inspiration to all disabled war veterans, never believed this. Cleland fought valiantly in Vietnam, but his tragedy was not caused by the Viet Cong. Rather, it was the result of a horrible accident caused by a grenade belonging to a fellow soldier.1 Sen. Cleland wrote about this heart-wrenching incident in his eloquent memoir, Strong At The Broken Places.
Franken's "intellectual heavyweights" are "fact-checking flyweights"!2
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Notes:
1 Max Cleland Strong At The Broken Places (Longstreet Press (updated version, 2000)). Available at www.amazon.com .
2 A correction to this error appears on page 172 of the paperback edition of Lies, released in 2004. The correction might also appear in some later printings of the hardcover.