TagsTagsIowahawk says he found the first draft of Franklin Foer’s latest article for the New Repubic on the Scott Beauchamp scandal, in a dumpster behind Marty Peretz’ townhouse. I don’t believe him, though. Judging from the length, this would have filled more than one dumpster: Misty Watercolor Memories, of the Fog ...
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Scott Beauchamp, Iowahawk, Parody
Howard Kurtz has an article for the Washington Post on the Scott Beauchamp New Republic scandal: New Republic Disavows Iraq Diarist’s Reports. After nearly five months of mounting criticism, the New Republic yesterday disavowed reports about petty wartime cruelty in Iraq, saying the magazine had lost faith in the Army ...
Bob Owens has the punchline: When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in light of the evidence available to us, after months of intensive re-reporting, we cannot be confident ...
At Confederate Yankee: Sacrificial Lamb? Head Fact-checker Gone at TNR.
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Scott Beauchamp, Fact Checking
The Los Angeles Times’ Tim Rutten managed to get nearly everything wrong in his article on the New Republic/Scott Beauchamp scandal, and Bob Owens nails every falsehood and distortion: I’m Sorry... Was That Supposed to be Journalism?
At New Republic “blog” The Plank, the editors have issued another non-statement about the ridiculously false stories of Scott Beauchamp: A Scott Beauchamp Update. There’s nothing new here; it’s the same line they’ve been using for months, ignoring all the evidence against the Beauchamp fables, and insisting that the Army is ...
Michael Yon has a good post today on the Scott Beauchamp scandal: Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances. Beauchamp is young; under pressure he made a dumb mistake. In fact, he has not always been an ideal soldier. But to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and ...
Bummerdietz emailed an interesting note about the Scott Beauchamp investigation documents: In the third document, at section 5.a.(vi), there’s a reference to “form DA 3881.” This is the acknowledgment that he has been read his rights, and that he has the right to remain silent and to have an attorney. Here’s a blank ...
Here are the internal documents from the investigation of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist,” Scott Thomas Beauchamp, linked at Drudge Report this morning and subsequently removed. I have it on very good authority that these are completely genuine, no forgery involved. I wonder what they’ll call the sequel to Shattered Glass? How ...
The New Republic stonewalled for months about the ugly, dishonest anti-military fables by Scott Beauchamp. To this date they still have not recanted. The editors apparently believe that if they just ignore the scandal, it will eventually go away. Well, it’s going to be a little difficult for them to ignore ...
Here’s Scott Johnson on The New Republic’s ethics scandal, the scandal that’s being completely ignored by mainstream media as TNR editors hunker down and hope it all goes away: Power Line: It’s the coverup that kills you, part 2. TNR editor Franklin Foer and executive editor Peter Scoblic seem to ...
The New Republic has yet another empty statement on the Scott Beauchamp fraud scandal. There’s nothing new here; they still refuse to address any of the real issues with Beauchamp’s ridiculous fantasies, and they’re blaming the Army for not cooperating with their “investigation.” The article is for subscribers only, but ...
In one of the most tone-deaf hypocritical statements yet from The New Republic, Eve Fairbanks crows about the great “karmic satisfaction” she gets from the stupid controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s “phony soldiers” remark—ignoring the gigantic beam labeled “Scott Beauchamp” in The New Republic’s eye: The Plank. I can’t help but ...
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, Scott Beauchamp, Rush Limbaugh
Yesterday PJ Media had an interview by Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee, with Major John Cross, leader of the US Army’s investigation into the New Republic/Scott Beauchamp scandal, appropriately titled: Army Checkmates The New Republic.
At The New Republic, Jonathan Chait tries to divert attention from TNR’s continuing unwillingness to admit serious journalistic misconduct in the Scott Beauchamp scandal, with one of the oldest tricks in the Book of Sleaze—a hit piece on an ideological opponent: The Thuggery Of William Kristol. It’s the usual leftist smokescreen; ...
At PJ Media, Richard Miniter takes a look behind the scenes of the Scott Beauchamp scandal that The New Republic is trying so hard to pretend never happened: How The New Republic Got Suckered. Miniter has interviews with Beauchamp’s German ex-girlfriend, and with (Th)Robert McGee who blew the whistle on this ...
Here’s an excellent post at Shield of Achilles, recapping the many leftist bloggers and pundits who blindly supported Scott Beauchamp even as his fables began to unravel; includes quotes from Andrew Sullivan, Matthew Yglesias, Glenn Greenwald (aka Socky the Sockpuppet), Kevin Drum, Joshua Marshall, John Cole, and on and on: ...
At The Weekly Standard, a statement from the Army on Scott Beauchamp, and The New Republic’s claim that he’s being prevented from communicating: We are not preventing him from speaking to TNR or anyone. He has full access to the Morale Welfare and Recreation phones that all the other members of ...
The New Republic editors have another statement on the Scott Beauchamp scandal: A Scott Beauchamp Update. It’s mostly more of the same (critics are driven by ideology, critics hate truthiness, you know the drill), but there’s one little brand new detail in what they’re telling us now: Here’s what we know: On ...
In his column on The New Republic Scott Beauchamp scandal, Charles Krauthammer zeroes in on the important aspect, the little detail that The New Republic tried to pass off as a simple mistake: The Baghdad Fabulist. Except that it is now revealed that the mess-hall incident happened before he even got ...
LGF, Krauthammer, Iraq, New Republic, Scott Thomas, Scott Beauchamp
Bob Owens continues doing the fact-checking The New Republic should have done: Confederate Yankee: When Hidden Experts Are Found. The money grafs: In other words, BAE System’s Head of Communications over the division than manufactures the Bradley IFV was never specifically asked to comment on the claims made in “Shock Troops” ...
Yesterday the New York Times and Washington Post published reports on the New Republic’s disintegrating credibility, and today it’s the Associated Press’s turn: New Republic Iraq stories questioned. NEW YORK - A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, ...
LGF, Iraq, New Republic, Military, AP
Well, I’m back in my top-secret chamber beneath Denver International Airport, and tonight it looks as if The New Republic plans to drive their flaming jalopy right off the cliff. They’re disputing the Weekly Standard’s report that Scott Beauchamp recanted his stories, and editor Franklin Foer is demanding apologies from ...
When The New Republic issued their latest statement on the Scott Beauchamp story, they apparently forgot to mention that the PAO of the base where Beauchamp’s “burned woman” story was situated told them the story could not be verified, and was “considered to be an urban legend or myth.” Now why, ...
Bob Owens has been in contact with the Public Affairs Officer for General David Petraeus: It’s Official: Beauchamp’s Claims Debunked by Army Internal Investigation. Col. Steven Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for U.S. Army Commanding General in Iraq David Petraeus, just emailed me the following in response to my request to confirm ...