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Newsweek Throws the Spitter

The magazine repeats the myth of the gobbed-upon Vietnam vet.

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I expect similar e-mails this time, and I will share with readers any account that comes with some sort of evidence—such as a contemporaneous newspaper story or an arrest report—that documents the sordid event. 

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