In the photo accompanying the McClatchy Newspapers article deconstructing the heroics of Medal of Honor winner, Dakota Meyer, President Barack Obama is shown placing the medal around Meyer's neck. The photo is the only positive note in the article. After an "an exhaustive assessment" of the relevant Marine Corps documents, McClatchy editors decided that parts of the official narrative are "untrue, unsubstantiated or exaggerated."  True, "at least seven witnesses attested to [Meyer] performing heroic deeds 'in the face of almost certain death,'" but why let that stand in the way of a good debunking. The question that begs to be asked, of course, is why the story told about a genuine military hero deserves an "exhaustive assessment" while the claims of the other man in the photo, his president, remain almost fully unexamined three years after his election.  Even Obama-friendly biographer David Remnick concedes that Obama's baseline narrative, as laid down in the 1995 memoir...(Read Full Post)