Holy Mother of Pearl — GI Korea’s dismantling of AP Reporter Charles Hanley (Part 2, Part 1) is one for the ages.
Please remind me to learn from the pile of cinders that was once Charles Hanley and never mess with GI Korea. On the other hand, Hanley’s own comment on GI Korea’s blog may be the most damning condemnation of his objectivity and professionalism. I responded directly to Hanley there.
I read your comment and I’m pretty sure as well the comment was from Hanley as well because the tone of the comment was very similar to the tone he used to debate Major Bateman during a taped debate two years ago. He was extremely arrogant and condescending to a very well US Army Major and never answered many of the simple questions Bateman asked him. He kept attacking Bateman as a No Gun-ri denier which he isn’t.
Anyway your checking of the email address pretty much confirms it was him. I hope he reads my full series of postings and responds in kind.
GI Korea,
If he responds I doubt he will address the obvious flaws in his story that you point out; he didn’t with MAJ Bateman. And all he can do is to admit to a sloppily done story that ultimately is wrong in its key assumptions and conclusions.
[…] I couldn’t help but feel dismay when I say the byline on this story. Remember this guy? I would not have even looked for the byline, asking myself who wrote this crap, had I not seen this passage: In eastern Baghdad, a U.S. helicopter fired flares on a crowd on a square, hours after clashes between American troops and Shiite militia that left at least five people dead. The military said the flares were part of an automatic self-defense system. […]
[…] If the thirst for justice isn’t necessarily Curley’s main motive, let’s bear in mind that the AP has a pecuniary interest at stake, and a big one. To Curley, any conviction of Hussein for working with the terrorists would amount to a finding that the AP was infiltrated and that its Pulitzer was a terrorist-sponsored fraud. Curley should find some consolation in the fact that fellow AP reporter and professional atrocity mongerer Charles Hanley never lost his Pulitzer after much of his reporting about No Gun Ri was questioned. As of last June, Hanley was still filing bogus atrocity reports from Iraq. […]
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