What Say You Now, Nutroots? 'Solzhenitsyn Biographer: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened'

Talk about jumping the shark. After John McCain told this story Saturday evening, the frothing psychopaths that call themselves the netroots feverishly pecked out blogposts by the dozens questioning the veracity of John McCain's story, as if these geniuses knew what happened to him at the Hanoi Hilton.

Their favorite theme was McCain ripped off the story from Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Oops. Time to start backtracking on this one, boys. More likely, they'll just MoveOn and make up some other nonsense. And they wonder why they have no credibility.

There's been a ton of buzz on the web for the last day or so -- beginning with this Daily Kos diary -- suggesting that John McCain patterned his story about a Vietamese captor drawing a cross in the dirt before him on a similar episode from Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's time in the Soviet gulags.

But it turns out that this episode probably never happened to Solzhenitsyn at all, and according to a Solzhenitsyn biographer it appears nowhere in his published writing. Columbia University professor Michael Scammell, the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, says the episode "never happened," and didn't appear in Solzhenitsyn's book, Gulag Archipelago, either.

This author still theorizes McCain may have embellished his story, but these jokers would do well to just dummy up at this point instead of shredding what little credibility they still have left.