UPDATE 2x: ABC News: Fact or Fiction?

UPDATE 1X: Sorry, but the story sent to us and published earlier today has proven to be fiction rather than fact. . . and we're embarrassed we didn't run a Snopes check on it before posting on IR this am.    That's a mistake we hope not to make again, but if we do, we will stand corrected.

So, let's get back to the facts . . . which are often soooo much stranger than fiction anyway . . .

UPDATE 2X:  You've got to chuckle as we read the big news of the day throughout liberal Illinois-based blogs that Illinois Review's credibility is somehow hanging by a thread because we posted a bit sent in by an IR reader that proved to be  fiction rather than fact. 

As noted above, as soon as we recognized the error, we corrected ourselves and apologized.  Mistakes happen everyday in the MSM, and mistakes are corrected every day.  The work continues, however, lesson was learned. 

When we were fooled, we acknowledged it.  Don't you wonder when those starry-eyed Obama worshippers on the blue side of the blogosphere will admit that they've been fooled?

Originally posted on Illinois Review, proven later to be fiction:

How telling . . . IR Reader Linda Ward shared this infuriating tidbit with us today . . .

My niece, Katelyn, stationed at Baluud, Iraq, was assigned with others of her unit to be escorted/guarded/watched out for Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John McCain's recent trip to Iraq. Katelyn and her captain stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GI's walking past. They kept count of the GI's and you should remember these numbers. She asked 60 GI's who they planned to vote for, in November '08:

54 soldiers said John McCain

4 for Obama

2 for Hillary

Katelyn called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they'd see her on TV. Mom and Dad of course, called all the kinfolk to watch the newscast and maybe see Katlyn.. Well, of course we all watched and what we saw wasn't a glimpse of Katelyn, but got a helluva view of skewed news.

After a dissertation on McCain's trip and speech, ABC showed 5 GI's being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November:

3 for Obama

2 for Clinton

No mention of the 54 for McCain.