Snappy the Clam: Little Red Correction.

Well, as it turns out, the Little Red Homeland Security Visit was indeed a hoax:

NEW BEDFORD -- The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story. The 22-year-old student tearfully admitted he made the story up to his history professor, Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, and his parents, after being confronted with the inconsistencies in his account.

No real indication in the story as to why the little nimrod pulled this stunt, but I feel sorry for this poor professor:

"I wasn't involved in some partisan struggle to embarrass the Bush administration, I just wanted the truth," he said...

Dr. Williams said the whole affair has had one bright point: The question of whether it is safe for students to do research has been answered.
"I can now tell my students that it is safe to do research without being monitored," he said. "With that hanging in the air like before, I couldn't say that to them."

So, is this professor going to get the usual "seditious vitriol-filled Bush-hating commie needing to be taken out back and shot, then strung up and set on fire, oh wait" treatment? If I were him, I'd want to murderlize this kid for stringing me out like this over a lie.

Snappy the Clam

Chowder is evil.

Little Red Correction.