Scott Horton, crusader for terrorist rights and wanna-be national security reporter, has been caught with his pants down — again. Last week, Horton wrote in response to “revelations” in the British press that the photographs President Obama had suppressed contained images of rape and sexual abuse. Horton claimed to confirm this allegation:
The question I asked last Friday: “Does anyone really believe that Scott Horton has military or GOP sources?” And the answer comes today in the form of a full retraction of the story. Scott Horton makes a fine hysterical liberal polemicist (and there’s such a shortage of those), but he has been relying on what are obviously delusional sources inside the GOP and the military (if they even exist) for some time now. Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, where Horton frequently publishes his work including this latest bit of creative writing, ought to spare itself further embarrassment and send Horton back to Harper’s, which has a long history of publishing great works of fiction.
