Readers of the Los Angeles Times are all too familiar with the radical left-wing writer Robert Scheer. His "interpretation" of facts has been well documented (here is one link). In a recent column, entitled "A Cover-up as Shameful as Tillman's Death" (May 31, 2005), Scheer claims that the Bush administration created a sham of Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death "after months of increasingly damaging reports exposing the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and cover-up." (emphasis added)

        Well, this assertion seems downright impossible in light of the fact that former NFL star Tillman died on April 22, 2004, nearly one week before CBS first aired the Abu Ghraib scandal on April 28. Within only hours after his death, the sad news of Tillman's sacrifice and loss had reached millions (one example: link). A few weeks later, the Army acknowledged that Tillman was "probably" killed by friendly fire (link).

        In other words, Scheer's tale of a cover-up is bogus.

 

TheMediaReport.com asks ... Is Robert Scheer so driven to besmirch the Bush administration that he has to invent a hoax of his own?