Matt Sanchez on "Hannity & Colmes"
The Weekly Standard—so popular in neo-conservative circles "the office of Vice President Dick Cheney alone receives a special delivery of thirty copies"—has attacked reports of war atrocities in Iraq, including eyewitness accounts that one "soldier [ran] over dogs with a Bradley Fighting Vehicle for entertainment and another who played with the skull of a dead Iraqi child. " They've trotted out the best military source, Marine Cpl. Matt Sanchez, described as a "Marine Reservist" who is "[p]resently in Iraq interviewing the troops" and a journalist who "stands behind his work."
"Frankly, I don't believe ANY of this story...I've personally seen guys threatened with severe physical harm for making jokes of any kind about IED victims given the number of casualties all the units on this FOB have sustained. It is not a subject we take lightly."
Matt Sanchez is the real name of former gay-for-pay porn star Rod Majors. In addition to his new career as a right-wing blogger embedded with the troops—very odd, given the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy"—he is also being investigated for a charity scam. In another act of revisionism, Matt Sanchez' Wikipedia entry has deleted any references to his longtime and fairly recent—as of April—career as a male escort.
Baghdad Diarist [TNR]
Weekly Standard Used Matt Sanchez [Media Matters]
Matt Sanchez Responds, Sort Of [Joe My God]
Matt Sanchez: Live From the Middle East [Fleshbot]
Matt Sanchez: The Real Backstory [Fleshbot]
Matt Sanchez is a shameless attention whore who's just out to cash in on his 15-minutes. It's disgusting how Wikipedia is letting him use their site as a self-promotion tool -- in clear violation of their policies. He even tried to add references to himself in Max Blumenthal's bio. He posts under the account "Bluemarine."
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Blumenthal&action=history
Check the talk page history of his own WP bio and you'll see what a hatemongering bigot he really is. Not surprised at all that he's revered by the likes of Michelle Malkin.
Posted by: thunderkt | 03 August 2007 at 12:57
I continue to believe that anyone who is tied to this administration is delusional and will lie about their own Mother for a few coins and the low lights of Fox Noise.
Sheesh, is this guy, a term I use loosely, for real with this noise and nonsense???? But, with the Fox Noise crowd so easily duped, along with a few others in this country, his words will be part of the GOP nominees ads in the fall.
Posted by: Luther | 03 August 2007 at 17:44
he's a mess...i dont get WHY folk would even consider him to be a "credible", much less, respectable source for the republican party...
then again, the republicans are ALL ABOUT smoke and mirrors.
I'm still a tad bit salty that Michelle Malkin is an alumnus from my school but you can't win them all...
And, wasn't Sanchez escorting up until April???
Hmm...how is he going to pay those Columbia tuition bills now that he isn't slangin dick for coins?
Posted by: Ryan | 04 August 2007 at 08:31
What I'm realizing is that the GOP is nothing but the Democratic party - but in private. They don't want you to think they are liberal thinkers...they just want you to live in bondage, while they get to participate in abortion, private stem cell activites, sex parties, pick-up-an-escort-for-fun, casinos, clubs and every other radical adventure they can think of. So funny, lately the GOP has been getting in trouble with the law for things they condone and bash in the public. Such a bag of hypocrites.
As for Matt Sanchez, he needs to get a life. Just wait 'til his ten seconds of fame runs out...he'll be back behind the XXX camera. LOL.
Posted by: J. Matt | 06 August 2007 at 15:05