Although the wheels haven’t officially come off the whole Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair, they are extremely wobbly.
Beauchamp, is a soldier stationed in Iraq and was writing under the (ahem) nom de guerre, get this, “Scott Thomas” for the The New Republic. His pennings, to no one’s surprise considering who he was writing for, were less than flattering towards the military and the mission in Iraq.
The story in a nutshell is that people both here and serving in Iraq began to question the veracity of some of his claims including witnessing a mass grave site and mocking a disfigured woman. The New Republic has issued some time and place corrections to at least one of his submittals but the jury is still out, though, on whether or not Beauchamp himself officially retracted parts of or all of his “diaries”.
Aside from the smarminess and condescension in his writing, Beauchamp would have you believe he was a formerly sensitive, caring and compassionate soul who had been transformed into an unfeeling savage by his experience in Iraq. Ahh…. We love it when transparency doesn’t try to be coy and just comes up and slaps us in the face.
Click on link below for an exhaustive look into this controversy that details Beauchamp’s marriage to one of TNR’s fact checkers, some inconsistencies/errors/lies(?) in Beauchamp’s stories and the “outing” of the whistle-blower at TNR (a recurring theme of late it seems for angered liberals).
Beauchamp, is a soldier stationed in Iraq and was writing under the (ahem) nom de guerre, get this, “Scott Thomas” for the The New Republic. His pennings, to no one’s surprise considering who he was writing for, were less than flattering towards the military and the mission in Iraq.
The story in a nutshell is that people both here and serving in Iraq began to question the veracity of some of his claims including witnessing a mass grave site and mocking a disfigured woman. The New Republic has issued some time and place corrections to at least one of his submittals but the jury is still out, though, on whether or not Beauchamp himself officially retracted parts of or all of his “diaries”.
Aside from the smarminess and condescension in his writing, Beauchamp would have you believe he was a formerly sensitive, caring and compassionate soul who had been transformed into an unfeeling savage by his experience in Iraq. Ahh…. We love it when transparency doesn’t try to be coy and just comes up and slaps us in the face.
Click on link below for an exhaustive look into this controversy that details Beauchamp’s marriage to one of TNR’s fact checkers, some inconsistencies/errors/lies(?) in Beauchamp’s stories and the “outing” of the whistle-blower at TNR (a recurring theme of late it seems for angered liberals).
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/08/how_the_new_republic_got_sucke.php
At the end of the day, we are left scratching our head and wondering: with over 150,000 uniformed service men and women in Iraq to do their bidding, this is the best the Left could come up with?
At the end of the day, we are left scratching our head and wondering: with over 150,000 uniformed service men and women in Iraq to do their bidding, this is the best the Left could come up with?
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