TagsTagsIsn’t that nice. Creepy Max Blumenthal’s smear job is now showing up at Yahoo News, via The Nation: The Weekly Standard’s Strange Sources. Blumenthal can smell teh ghey all over this story, and in the course of figuring out that former TNR staffer ‘Throbert McGee’ is not heterosexual (hey, no kidding) ...
Game over for The New Republic: Beauchamp Investigation Concluded. After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation(s) made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the “Baghdad Diarist”, have been “refuted by members of his platoon and proven ...
Forwarded without commentary, for the moment: Shakespeare’s Sister: More Beauchamp.
The New Republic has made another statement on the “Shock Troops” article, and Ace has analyzed the semiotical contextuality, finding it less than compelling. I’ll start with this: In the first, Beauchamp recounted how he and a fellow soldier mocked a disfigured woman seated near them in a dining hall. Three ...
In another ridiculous attack on bloggers covering the New Republic Scott Beauchamp incident, Paul McLeary of the partisan hack outlet the Columbia Journalism Review says milbloggers are chickenhawks. Maybe the AP should publish a Blog Terminology Dictionary, like their [Amazon Link], so that idiots like McLeary have a chance to avoid ...
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Howard Kurtz interviews New Republic editor Franklin Foer, and Foer has chosen to continue distorting and misrepresenting the controversy over “Shock Troops:” Army Private Discloses He Is New Republic’s Baghdad Diarist. As conservative bloggers yesterday continued to challenge the veracity of Beauchamp’s accounts, Foer said: “It is really unfortunate that someone ...
Another night, another traffic surge; we seem to be back online now. Here’s Andrew Sullivan’s entirely predictable attack on bloggers who question the anti-military creative writing of “Scott Thomas:”: The Scott Thomas Fooferaw. I don’t know why Sullivan (a writer I used to respect, in the Pleistocene era of blogs) ...
More problems for The New Republic—details at Ace of Spades HQ. And yes, I’ve also found IP addresses used by TNR in my server logs. UPDATE at 7/26/07 1:01:23 pm: I didn’t want to run with this story based on nothing more than a rumor, but on Tuesday “Rugby the Rat” made an ...
The author of “Shock Troops” has been named at The New Republic: Scott Thomas Beauchamp. And he says anyone who criticized his article is a chickenhawk. My Diarist, “Shock Troops,” and the two other pieces I wrote for the New Republic have stirred more controversy than I could ever have anticipated. ...
Here’s an interesting post by a “semiotics” expert on the New Republic “Shock Troops” article: John Barnes’ Amazon Blog. With years of experience at coaching writers and analyzing problems in their work, Barnes (who self-identifies as a leftist/radical) concludes that “Scott Thomas” is an MFA writing student, probably with some military ...
The tale of The New Republic and their lurid article about US soldiers in Iraq, “Shock Troops,” takes an interesting turn today, as Ace notices that the New York Times altered their piece about the controversy to remove a potentially damning quote from New Republic editor Franklin Foer. By coincidence, I ...
The New Republic article “Shock Troops” (by “Scott Thomas”) is coming apart. In the latest news, Michael Goldfarb has a statement from Major Kirk Luedeke, the Public Affairs Officer at FOB Falcon, about the lurid events described in the article: FOB Falcon Responds Here are the facts as best I have ...
Recently, The New Republic published an extremely far-fetched article titled “Shock Troops,” with disgusting tales of brutality and heartless behavior by US troops, purported to be written by a soldier serving in Iraq. Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard is skeptical (to say the least), and asked for feedback from ...
Charles Krauthammer is responsible for the identification of a mental illness that afflicts the left almost without exception, and his column for today describes a related condition, witnessed recently in full bloom when Dick Cheney’s heart condition was in the news: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Cheney Variant. WASHINGTON — “What is wrong ...