Moon of Alabama tries to have its cake and eat it on Sy Hersh

Via John Helmer, Moon of Alabama appears to be wanting to have his cake and eat it too, from the left. After claiming both that Sy largely got things correct AND that he had reported similarly in September, 80 percent of his post is about "a few corrections" to Hersh's narrative. (MoA also ignores both that Hersh has never reported on Russia AND, like other blank-check fans of Sy's, that he got bin Laden all wrong, or Not.Even.Wrong, and that he was willing to bite into the Seth Rich apple.)

At the same time, MoA links to a piece of his own from last September, where he claims to have solved it. More problems? It's possible he's right that Poland was involved in some way. But, that would be an entirely different operation than what Hersh describes, not just correcting around the corners. At a minimum, MoA sounds more right than Sy, but again, this is trying to have one's cake and eat it, too. Finally, on that piece, his peculations were not his alone. And, I don't know if all of his ship-siting stands up to Oliver Alexander's OSINT debunking of Hersh, either.

Also, I can't remember exactly what it was over, and whether on his blog site or on Twitter, but, long ago, I had some sort of run-in with Bernhard. I want to say, despite the number of leftist or quasi-leftist links in its links list, it was MoA being some sort of Mark Ames-type tribalist on US foreign affairs. I've not blogged about it here. And, given that he seems to be a tribalist twosider on the possibility of a WIV lab leak, to the degree that he's willing to accuse Snowden of being a US government propagandist, that probably WAS it, especially given he embeds Ames' tweet on the issue.