By Michael Hastings JOURNAL FOOD EDITOR Published: June 25, 2010
After taking down a four-star general, I'm moving to my next story: Gen. Stanley McChrystal's favorite Afghan recipes. McChrystal may not know how to keep his mouth shut, but he can cook. OK. That's a lie. And I'm not the Michael Hastings who wrote the Rolling Stone article that got McChrystal fired as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. But the facts have not prevented me from getting a share of the credit -- and the blame. "Moonlighting, huh?" one colleague wrote when the story first broke Tuesday. "That's right," I answered. "Remember when I took vacation the other week? I actually was in Afghanistan." OK, I lied about that, too. What is true is that the byline confusion made its way onto my Facebook page (Facebook.com/mhastingsWSJ). My last post had been about the new Gourmet Live iPad app. But that didn't give one reader pause before he shot his mouth off about how I was sabotaging the war effort. "You Rolling Stone are trying as hard as you can to do what the media did to turn Opinions in the Vietnam War," he wrote. "Why no just spit on the guys uniform?" Those are his grammatical mistakes, not mine. Oh, and he called me one of those nice names I can't print. I eventually posted a reply, stating that I was not that Michael Hastings, but only after other Facebook users had replied to the misguided post. "This Gourmet app must have some wicked subtext that I missed," wrote one Facebook user. He later added: "I bet the other Michael Hastings is getting a bunch of comments about the exciting new Gourmet Live app." But my favorite comment came from another Facebook user. Even if you aren't the now-famous Michael Hastings, she said, "I guarantee you will be able to get good restaurant reservations in the future!" mhastings@wsjournal.com
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