Any one surprised?

TGIF!

Surprise Surprise Surprise NOT

This will be front page at Kos , right?

Behold the power of the blogosphere.

No surprise here. Maybe he can find a new line of work writing prison fiction in Leavenworth...

It's going to be a good day.

Uh-oh. I got Zombie's spot. Could be trouble...

Is it just me or has there been a streak of good news lately?

I would have preferred a more in depth, point by point refutation from the Army.

How long before the Moonbats conclude the investigation was a cover up?

Color me surprised. Although I do have to admit that sometimes the military has surprised me with respect to the results of their investigations.

re: #12 Dirk Diggler

At this point, I'd settle for the Vincent Gambini approach:

"Everything that guy just said...is bulls**t!"

re: #12 Dirk Diggler

I would have preferred a more in depth, point by point refutation from the Army.

I'm sure more details are on the way.

No doubt this will lead to another congressional carnival-ride, like the Pat Tillman hearing this week. Can't wait to see Kucinich, sitting on a pile of telephone books, trying to look tough in front of a bunch of green-suits.

But in this article they say that TNR's investigation proves everything to be true other than the location... who do we believe?

The New Republic has completed their investigation, and, aside from one error—an incident purported to have taken place in Iraq actually took place in Kuwait—everything written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp has been corroborated by current and former soldiers, including five other members of Beauchamp's company, forensic experts, and other war journalists, with assistance from Army Public Affairs officers.

Any word from TNR?

"nor would they comment on his whereabouts or status". I've never been in the military, but is this sort of thing a jail-able offence?

I hope this piece of dung, gets some hard time.

re: #12 Dirk Diggler

Maybe they are not ready to air the dirty laundry in public. But I
would like to know what is really being said and done.

Of course this will still rumble on in the brains of those who want to believe it, just like the Newsweek flushed koran story.

Well, what a delightful way to top off (or, in this case, START) a Friday!

Liar proven mendacious!

/bodacious!

Love that LGF links to a Milblogger for this piece. Definately shows real class.

Will we be able to reach Franklin Foer for comment on his yacht not docked within range of cellular telephones?

Oh, I'm sure he's left his radio on. The journos will just have to go nautical with their attempts to reach him.

But, but, but... TNR said they'd verified the allegations. That is, they were just off by little details such as one country, nine months, wrong type of gravesite, etc., etc. So how could the military say they were proven to be untrue? COVERUP! It MUST be a BusHitlerMcHaliburton COVERUP! IMPEACH. IMPEACH, I SAY! /moonbat

Everything is politically polarized now... Media wants this soldier to be right, and they want this to be right too:
Federal Court Rules FBI Raid on Rep. William Jefferson's Office Unconstitutional

How does ANYTHING get done now with this kind of all encompassing partisanship.

I just don't understand how an opportunist could lie to gain fame and notoriety. It's so unlike them.

/Not.

make him stay in the field. justice will have its say. im not advocating that any of his fellow soldiers take matters into their own hands just saying that it might work itself out.

Well, it was walking like a duck and quaking like a duck, so big surprise!

But I am so happy that it got straightened out so fast.
Bodes well for this coming election cycle.

I'm sure we'll be seeing a retraction and apology from TNR any second um any minute, oh hell, like never, right? The narrative was correct, it's just that the facts were wrong.

Bad facts, bad.

"nor would they confirm his current whereabouts or status"

I'm sure its not a pleasant place.... maybe he can take up geology instead of writing...I see many rocks in his future.

What inspires such people?

Well, this news comes just in time for the New Republic to go on summer holiday.

Charles,

It's VDH Friday!

Ooops... I meant to quotes this... those aren't my words :)

The New Republic has completed their investigation, and, aside from one error—an incident purported to have taken place in Iraq actually took place in Kuwait—everything written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp has been corroborated by current and former soldiers, including five other members of Beauchamp's company, forensic experts, and other war journalists, with assistance from Army Public Affairs officers.

re: #5 DesertSage

This will be front page at Kos , right?

(Headline)

ANOTHER MILITARY COVERUP BY BUSHITLER!

Not surprised it's BS. Ace does a good job of poking more holes in the story as well.
[Link: ace.mu.nu...]

re: #18 bryantay

As soon as he admitted the 'woman' scenario happened at another time and another country than he reported, nothing else he says can be trusted. imo

One word:

SLAM!

Something that should raise an eyebrow or two

Swiss customs authorities seized mechanical equipment weighing over two tons which they suspected was destined for an Iranian nuclear plant, Al Watan reported on Friday.

The equipment's estimated value was 0.5 million euros.

According to the report in the Saudi-based newspaper, a Swiss company was suspected to be involved in the deal.

What's the word? Fabulist?

Maybe Beauchamp can share a cell with Charles Grainer. They've both been so helpful to our cause.

Heh, and he seemed like such a promising young author, too.

re: #28 Impetus

That's one big problem now, all encompassing politicization.

Even of national self-defense.

I've registered Independent and I encourage others to do so also.

re: #18 bryantay

"...everything written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp has been corroborated by current and former soldiers, including five other members of Beauchamp's company, NAMES?
forensic experts, Named WHO?
and other war journalists, With NAMES?
with assistance from Army Public Affairs officers." and their NAMES?

That is the difference between TNR and the Army Investigation. The Army named names, had the witnesses solemnly swear oaths to the Lord, God Almighty, and bend every fiber to be truthful.

TNR spun every way it could to SEEM truthful.

re: #43 buzzsawmonkey

Eh, you've got a good point there, buzz. But then it becomes a house of cards, yes? We pull one out, and then they all go falling.

re: #28 Impetus

Everything is politically polarized now... Media wants this soldier to be right, and they want this to be right too:
Federal Court Rules FBI Raid on Rep. William Jefferson's Office Unconstitutional

How does ANYTHING get done now with this kind of all encompassing partisanship.

Huh? I thought it was found to be constitutional: [Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

Oh, you're saying that's what the media WANTS to believe. Sorry, need more coffee.

PS Charles, my "link" button isn't working correctly -- something change?

No shcok this story was bogus, but that won't prevent the left from repeating it over and over again.

Truthiness!

Up next from TNR: Fake but accurate.

.

proven to be false

But but...where they accurate ?

Signs of Sanity? at Shakespears's Sister? from yesterday?

Let's watch for Melissa McEwan to issue a clarification of this:

The New Republic has completed their investigation, and, aside from one error—an incident purported to have taken place in Iraq actually took place in Kuwait—everything written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp has been corroborated by current and former soldiers, including five other members of Beauchamp's company, forensic experts, and other war journalists, with assistance from Army Public Affairs officers.

So...all good, right?

re: #12 Dirk Diggler

That will come. Right now, we're going on Sanchez's reporting from FOB Falcon. I expect the PAO will issue a statement detailing what was discovered and found, along with the disposition of the case if such information is not going to affect Beauchamp's rights under the UCMJ or operational security.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense panel, has secured the most earmarked dollars in the 2008 military spending bill, followed closely by the panel’s ranking member Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.).

Even though Young secured 52 earmarks, worth $117.2 million — and co-sponsored at least $27 million worth of others — Murtha’s 48 earmarks amount to a total of $150.5 million, according to a database compiled by the watchdog organization Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS).

The House is expected to take up the $459.6 billion defense appropriations bill Friday. It contains 1,337 earmarks, costing $3.07 billion, which is less than half the number and value of earmarks in last year’s bill.

re: #30 rourke54

I don't want this guy defending me or any of my fellow Americans.

re: #13 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

How long before the Moonbats conclude the investigation was a cover up?

How long?.....you are kidding aren't you? The left starts declaring coverup even before investigations begin. It is the nature of the "religion" they follow....all things differing from their "reality" is apostate.

Scarab

shcok = shock.

Breaking in some new fingers today...

Everything Harry Mudd tells you is a lie.

re: #50 buzzsawmonkey

True. But for a long time I haven't liked any of the primary choices either. Maybe the GOP will have a decent candidate this time.

re: #58 Sharmuta

neither do i but i doubt he would last long.

TNR: but, but, but .... we support the troops!

after reading last nights thread about beauchamp, I wonder if "JustMyView" poster will be weighing in this morning.

False .....but accurate diaries no doubt!

re: #49 MoonbatBane

Here's my coverage of the Rep. Jefferson appeals court ruling, including a link to the case.

As for Pvt. Beauchamp and TNR - the hammer is going to drop - hard.

Gee, another lying shit-sack libtard. *yawn*

[Link: www.sciencedaily.com...]

They may take away our history, but they will never take away our ZEEERRROOOOOO!

A question for the military folks here. I assume that the members of his unit now know that Beauchamp has been slandering them. What would the reaction be to the betraying of his comrades? I wonder if command has removed him from theater to keep an accident from happening. Heck even if he got killed legitimately now it would set up a wailing in the moonbat world.

OT: New software to help spot fauxtography:

[Link: blog.wired.com...]

Hmmm... if the TNR investigation is 180 degrees from the Official Military investigation, can we question their Patriotism yet?

re: #63 rourke54

Send him to the VFW. Bet he wouldn't last long there either.

The only thing that could save Beauchamp's carreer as a leftist journalist/pundit would be (ironically) a dishonorable discharge. Personally I hope he spends the rest of his tour digging shitters for real soldiers. Imagine the gripping, thoughtful essays he could compose on that subject.

" Diary day 84
Once again the guys have been throwing recyclables into the latrine and once again I had to go down and get them. I must be the only man with a conscience in Iraq. It hurtsso much to see The New York Times Sunday Magazine laying there in a pile of fresh turds. But I'll keep digging for the truth."

They've probably assassinated all the witnesses on BushCo orders, JUST LIKE THEY DID TO PAT TILLMAN!

/you know it's coming, don't you?

Let me see if I understand Beauchamp's point...

He's in the army, a medic of some kind... hes' shipped out to Kuwaitt waiting to go into Iraq... he sees a burned & disfigured female troop in a a mess hall and... by his own admission... he proceeds to make fun of her and laugh at her, provoking other soldiers with him to do so too (even as one soldier is appalled by his insesitivity)... now Beauchamp blames the military and the war, "because I've seen shit" for turning him into such a bad person. Yet this happened before he went to Iraq
In fact, he blames the military for the fact he, Beauchamp, is a smug insensitve liar.

This demonstrates clearly how Beauchamp, like so many young liberal-leftists, is a moral narcissist. Creep.

re: #67 lawhawk

Ah, didn't know about the appeals court ruling. Seems pretty limited. Of course, that won't keep the leftscum from trumping it as a full-blown vindication. Agree with your call that it will be appealed...

re: #68 Hucbald

Gee, another lying shit-sack libtard. *yawn*

And THIS (Beauchamp) shows why that is such an accurate description:
Liberal with ReTARDed emotional and intellectual maturity, plays silly, childish game and GETS CAUGHT by ADULTS!

/Mweh!

re: #12 Dirk Diggler

I would have preferred a more in depth, point by point refutation from the Army.

Yeah, and I'm sure you'd like General Petreus to give you a neck massage, too.

Speaking of two-bit frauds, a court has sided with the CIA against Valerie Pflamewilson.

She has no plans to ever go away.

re: #53 Peacekeeper

Up next from TNR: Fake but accurate.

Yep. Another Winter Soldier may have melted away, but the leftards will continue to cite it as true.

So the blogosphere claims another old media scalp.

Thanks again to former LGFer Throbert McGee. He acted as the blogospere's eyes and ears at The New Republic and lost his job because of it.

From Sanchez's comments section:

While Beauchamp's claims were not factually true, they illustrated a greater truth about the American military and the insidious effects that Bush's illegal war has one the troops.

Posted by: Moonbat_One

WTF is this guy talking about? It was proven false, it illustrates nothing but falseness.

#12 Dirk Diggler - A 4th IBCT Public Affairs Officer makes an excellent point:

Just about every Soldier these days has his or her own digital camera or video camera. Talk to anyone here- every unit down to squad level in our brigade is *required* to have a camera on every mission. It’s all part of being prepared for such a discovery. Surely- there would be photos of the skulls and mass grave if it truly existed, would there not? The reason there isn’t any photos, is because simply- the story isn’t true.

.....I know that if my organization claimed to have unearthed a sizeable cache of hundreds of explosives, rockets, nitric acid and other key components to make roadside bombs, otherwise known here in these parts as a “good news story,” media outlets would rightfully demand some kind of proof to subtantiate our claims. That’s why we take pictures of such things and provide them along with our press releases.

[Link: www.rightnation.us...]

Once again, a liberal media outlet doesn't exercise customary vetting procedures because it wants the story to be true.

Here's a story coming out of JihadWatch.
The intro reads:

Yes, winning hearts and minds is going to be tough. But why does Brown assume that if Muslims support suicide bombing, it is because of something that the British have done and can thus undo? What if the support for suicide bombing comes from imperatives within Islam?

Which leads me to the conclusion that Gordon Brown realizes that all he can do is pay them off so that they don't blow everybody up. What's that called again? Oh yeah, extortion.

re: #77 Kenneth

This demonstrates clearly how Beauchamp, like so many young liberal-leftists, is a moral narcissist. Creep.

Yep. Narcissism again. Can't say it often enough or loud enough.

Bob Owens at CY has been trying to track down what happened in Kuwait where the dining hall incident allegedly occurred, and his response from a PAO in Kuwait says that right now this is considered an urban legend or myth. Ouch.

I can hear TNR screaming from here. Sorry Guys, But the old way of doing things is over. It's gotten easy to fact-check you now

OT: Nanocomposites for artificial bone
[Link: nanotechweb.org...]

this stuff looks interesting

What? The Left employed a liar to discredit the military?!? I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

Bastards.

Why does this keeping popping into mind?
"Beauchamp, bad boy, bad boy, whacha gonna do when they come for you?"

Military Guys:
Can you get busted from Private?

I'm glad that these lies were refuted. But unfortunately, just like the Koran controversy, these terrible lies get half way around the world before the truth is told.

O/T- Insane Kos comment of the day:

* [new] Sorry (0 / 0)
I would rather have a nuclear armed Iran than a nuclear armed United States.

I don't particularly trust Iran but I trust the United States far less. The US has formented far moor wars and caused far more death and destruction than Iran ever has,

Best Wishes, Demena

by Demena on Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 04:52:58 PM PDT

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)

ART. 134. General Article

Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court

The statement below is false.

The statement above is true.

/back to the wearying task of baby-killing and cripple-insulting
//do you need a tag?

Question: Would spreading enemy propaganda as a solder of the U.S. Army, e.g., false stories about the military for the purposes of undermining the mission, be classified as a treasonous act?

I don't think that I would feel very comfortable being in his troop in a combat situation.

re: #77 Kenneth

BINGO.

Gotta go ~

Truism of the day: [Link: i12.tinypic.com...]

Safe for work

Diary day 93

" I am so sick of people yelling out: ' Beauchamp FALL IN!' everytime I go to the latrine. Philistines."

re: #93 Peacekeeper

No

the overtly racist right-wing blog, “Little Green Footballs.”

Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes "the truth".

re: #74 Peacekeeper

and digging.....

Good one.

re: #95 Charles

Because people who like Jews are Nazis.

Yeah, and I'm sure you'd like General Petreus to give you a neck massage, too.

Well as a taxpayer I do pay the good general's salary. Why not?

re: #29 Sharmuta

I just don't understand how an opportunist could lie to gain fame and notoriety. It's so unlike them.

/Not.

I too, have now lost faith in all opportunist. Hillery, Obama, Silky... Sorry, but you have now lost any support that I may have had for you.

Which was none.

This is rather OTish... anyway, ISRAEL FEEDING THOSE WHO WISH TO HARM HER: SUPPLIES ROLL INTO GAZA DESPITE QASSAMS/MORTAR ATTACKS.

re: #98 threeCents

Question: Would spreading enemy propaganda as a solder of the U.S. Army, e.g., false stories about the military for the purposes of undermining the mission, be classified as a treasonous act?

I don't think that I would feel very comfortable being in his troop in a combat situation.

Au contraire. This qualifies him to be a senator from Massachusetts.

re: #102 Peacekeeper

Stop it. You're killing me.

re: #95 Charles

So he is upset that we don't want to be nice to people that want to destroy our Country, culture, and our citizens. Blumenthal needs to go live with THEM. As broke as I am right now, I'll chip in for the ticket.

re: #93 Peacekeeper

Military Guys:
Can you get busted from Private?

Yes, from "Private" to "Discreet"... as in the phrase, "my discreet view of the war".

re: #13 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

How long before the Moonbats conclude the investigation was a cover up?

You beat me to it!

re: #90 Jewels (AKA Julian)

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Umm, I'm confused... LGF has members of all races... so exacty which race is LGF supposed to be overtly racist about?

NoSub,

re: #85 NoSubmission

From Sanchez's comments section:

While Beauchamp'sclaims were not factually true, they illustrated a greater truth about theAmerican military and the insidious effects that Bush's illegal war has onethe troops.Posted by: Moonbat_One

WTF is this guy talking about? It was proven false, it illustrates nothing but falseness.

Judging by the name of the commenter, I think he/she is being toungue in cheek.

I've seen the name Moonbat_One around before, though not sure where. Maybe that'll become the moniker for Air Force One next time a Democrat is elected...

He went for the same reason KErry went.

re: #111 Crusader Rabbit

I guess you're right. I forgot about Sen. Kerry.

Beauchump is pwnd!

Let's all give him a big dating game kiss....mmmmmmwwwwwwaaaaaahhhhh!

Beauchump is a lying POS - court martial the scum. Then again, I'm sure his fellow soldiers will certainly explain in their own inimitable fashion their displeasure at being caricatured as sadistic thugs.

I have immense respect for any soldier, active duty or not, combat zone or not. But I lose that respect completely when the soldier is a lying, backstabbing, self-aggrandizing weasel - like SB and his role model former Lt. John "seared, I tell you" Kerry.

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

The only thing that I am 'overtly' is sleepy.

Racist?
Tell Blumenthal to go correct Beauchamps for callously, obnoxiously, condescendingly and racistly calling Iraqi kids, "brown barbarians."

TNR used to be a very interesting, albeit liberal, magazine. Now, I'm afraid it's just liberal and predictable. Faux journalism makes it about as interesting as the New York Times and as relevant as Dur Sturmer.

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Is that like his blog appearing "Overtly Stupid" ?

He clearly exaggerated his role to get Lib street creds.

Despite refutations, how long before it becomes part of the accepted narrative anyway? Jenin Massacre, anyone? Little Mo al-Dura?

re: #117 Kenneth,

We're on the side of the human race. As opposed to the Muslim "race". At least, that's what I think he means.

First off, I hate what Beauchamp has written, for the reasons if why and what. His actions have smeared the whole of the military by painting them with a broad brush. His words were was further used by TNR as a tool for their own agenda I sincerely hope that he gets his due.

"...has concluded that the allegation made by..." Which allegation was determined to be false? I know of 4 or 5 horrendous ones. What of the others? The burned soldier reference seems to have been in Kuwait instead of the FOB. Is that what rendered it false? Don't get me wrong, I want him to be held accountable for his words/actions. If he did these things he should be held to account, if he lied he should as well.

I am interested in truth. I hate parsing of words. The notation in the column above would lead a casual reader to believe that all of his allegations have been proven false. We are led to believe they never happened, and that Beauchamp is a complete liar. But in truth, it only says one is false.

Just a thought.

Just so that no one misunderstands me. I am a supporter of the military, this war and the war on the islamofascists. It is those animals that we are fighting in Iraq and around the world. I believe that he Beauchamp enlisted to,(in his own words paraphrased from his blog) get "cred" as a soldier to become a writer. A despicable reason to join the armed services - to later push yourself up, by discrediting them.

re: #111 Crusader Rabbit

Au contraire. This qualifies him to be a senator from Massachusetts.

In order for that, you need to gain complete support from the Democrats in Congress before you are discredited as a fraud. It's probably too late for Beauchamp.

re: #90 Jewels (AKA Julian)

OT: Nanocomposites for artificial bone
[Link: nanotechweb.org...]

this stuff looks interesting

Having sold Demineralized Bone Matrices and synthesized human proteins for bone growth, I have to say it doesn't look interesting. Nor all that different from many fillers out there claiming to do the same.

re: #101 Sunlight

I didn't say I think anything bad shouyld happen to this guy. I said he should be worried about it.

Stupid liberals. Still can't figure out that the more they defend Beauchamp the deeper the hole they dig.

Like most liberal news media, The New Republic outright lied to the general public. Pathetic.

TNR = Kos. [I love abbrevs.]

re: #122 buzzsawmonkey

re: #77 Kenneth

If Beauchamp was indeed "a medic of some kind," and was making fun of someone who had been seriously disfigured, doesn't that kind of reflect on his lack of qualification for his role?

I know that doctors are famous for making macabre jokes among themselves, but wouldn't a doctor who was caught out publicly making such jokes have breached some sort of canon of professional conduct?

If you come into the ER with funny underwear, we will make fun of you.
/I still see that Winnie-the-Pooh thong in my nightmares
//must finish gearing up for brief FTX. Later, all. See ya'll next week.

re: #127 Ben Hur

He clearly exaggerated his role to get Lib street creds.

Clinton / Beauchamp '08!

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Blumenthal is just using the standard lefty attack-mantra: 1. They are liars. 2. They are racist. 3. They are warmongerers. 4. They are Nazis.

Lefties usually take them in order, so we've been through 1 and 2 so far. Look for 3 and 4 next...

Right... We are overtly racist because we expose the truth on the War on Terro and ISlamofascism... And of course, we all know that Muslims are a RACE...

DUH!

re: #95 Charles Charles, not gonna go to his site, but if he thinks we're racist, he is an ass.
And, perhaps, a malicious ass at that.

re: #117 Kenneth

Umm, I'm confused... LGF has members of all races... so exacty which race is LGF supposed to be overtly racist about?

The one that's not a race.

/hint- it starts with an i

re: #138 AmeriDan

re: #127 Ben Hur

He clearly exaggerated his role to get Lib street creds.

Clinton / Beauchamp '08!

Forgot to add....

/Moonbat off

Moonbats are not a "race" either!

re: #139 wvobiwan

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Blumenthal is just using the standard lefty attack-mantra: 1. They are liars. 2. They are racist. 3. They are warmongerers. 4. They are Nazis.

Lefties usually take them in order, so we've been through 1 and 2 so far. Look for 3 and 4 next...

Don't forget 5. They are not as smart. They love to point out how much smarter the libs are than anyone else.

re: #139 wvobiwan

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Blumenthal is just using the standard lefty attack-mantra: 1. They are liars. 2. They are racist. 3. They are warmongerers. 4. They are Nazis.

Lefties usually take them in order, so we've been through 1 and 2 so far. Look for 3 and 4 next...

You forgot-
Homophobic
Xenophobic
Sexist
Fascist

I love the truth in all of its plodding inevitability. But sometimes the truth has a very ugly sex life.

Who was the guy who raked DRUDGE over the legal coals for simply repeating a story he'd gotten from someone else that was later found out to be unsubstantiated?

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Can we refer to Blumenthal as "un-American" and "un-patriotic" then? I hate to use those terms, and I don't want to endorse their usage in this case either, but what do you say about people like him who are so ready to believe every horrible thing about Americans, and refuse to accept the truth even when it has been presented to them in the form of a clue-by-four to the intellect.

Wasn't it Mark Steyn who pointed out that the soldier who was ridiculing the disfigured woman was Scott Beauchamp himself?

Diary day 97

" My life is a private hell:
'BeauCHUMP get over here!'
'I hear you're getting reassigned to General Nuisance's combat team'
' You been promoted to rear admiral'
'BeauCHIMP wipe my ass'

Philistines"

re: #107 savage_nation

Might as well be

re: #18 bryantay

But in this article they say that TNR's investigation proves everything to be true other than the location... who do we believe?

The New Republic has completed their investigation, and, aside from one error—an incident purported to have taken place in Iraq actually took place in Kuwait—everything written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp has been corroborated by current and former soldiers, including five other members of Beauchamp's company, forensic experts, and other war journalists, with assistance from Army Public Affairs officers.

AND these were the same (unnamed) forensic experts used by CBS to verify the Bush memos....

re: #144 Occasional Reader

Moonbats are not a "race" either!

Moonbats are a political party of peace- in our time.

Oakland, Fremont descend on Your Black Muslim Bakery
Via Jihad Watch

re: #77 Kenneth Hi Kenneth! Where did you see that he's a medic?

STOP THE PRESSES! I have in my possession an SMS text message from 1972 proving that everything Beauchamp said is true

But Sanchez is more than a mere man in uniform. As I reported for Media Matters today, Sanchez is also a conservative pro-war activist whose bio includes a stint as the gay porn actor Rod Majors, (star of such filmic classics as “Beat Off Frenzy”) and an illustrious part-time job as a male prostitute — facts he has acknowledged “leaving ... off my curriculum vitae.”

What a disgusting hypocrite. What a [deleted].

re: #145 Golem Akbar

re: #139 wvobiwan

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Blumenthal is just using the standard lefty attack-mantra: 1. They are liars. 2. They are racist. 3. They are warmongerers. 4. They are Nazis.Lefties usually take them in order, so we've been through 1 and 2 so far. Look for 3 and 4 next...

Don't forget 5. They are not as smart. They love to point out how much smarter the libs are than anyone else.

True, but they've already done that with 'we've back-checked Beauchump's story' nonsense. But you're right, that should be number 1, followed by 'they are liars'.

As other posters have noted, the parallels between Beauchump's history and Jon Carry's is striking. Cowards flock together I guess.

#146 DesertSage:

You forgot-
Homophobic
Xenophobic
Sexist
Fascist

... with that last one often being spelled "Facist". Because we judge people by their faces, apparently.

Do you think someone is going to make another movie about a writer passing off fictional stories as fact, e.g., Stephen Glass? Does one pull a Beauchamp or a Glass when this occurs?

re: #151 Peacekeeper,

Deploy him as a Polish Mine Detector. At least then he would provide a useful service.

Until he found his first mine, that is :-)

re: #157 Occasional Reader

STOP THE PRESSES! I have in my possession an SMS text message from 1972 proving that everything Beauchamp said is true

I will believe you IF it is signed by Dan Rather!

re: #137 American Soldier

I've worked in a hospital. And while I did hear some "dark" humour from time to time, I never saw or heard anybody ever mock a patient. Never. That was a line nobody even considered crossing.

Beauchamp is blaming the world for the fact he's a loathsome creep.

Aw man. We're only 'racist' to Maxie Blumenthal?

We gotta step it up folks. Surely we are more than just 'racist'.

Bangladesh Slipping Toward Islamic Extremism, Muslim Zionist Says

Can I get a What? What?

re: #157 Occasional Reader

STOP THE PRESSES! I have in my possession an SMS text message from 1972 proving that everything Beauchamp said is true

LOL!

No medic! Just some basic medic training they all get to "help each other as first responders." Beauchamp's idea of "helping" as "first responder" is to write nasty little pieces to make his fellow soldiers look bad - and send them BACK FIRST to the USA so when the rest of the hapless soldiers get home, they get spat on.

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Overt as opposed to stealth racists? Would that be OK? I think he said overt because he didn't want to have to build a case.

"His government says that he is a member of Mossad," Mr. Colter, who defended a leading Egyptian advocate of democracy, Saad Iddin Ibrahim, said. "That is the universal vernacular when the government does not have any substantiating evidence."

re: #164 Kenneth Hey Kenneth - you may have missed my earlier post, but where did you see that he was a medic?

re: #155 Ben Hur

Also, longtime Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey was reportedly researching an investigative piece into Your Black Muslim Bakery before he was shot and killed just yesterday morning.

This assassination (yes, that's what it's being called) is getting big news in the Bay Area because it occurred in broad daylight while the journalist was walking to work. Witnesses described the suspect as a masked individual dressed in black. Chauncey Bailey was an investigative reporter who ruffled a lot of feathers, including those in local gov't., so the list of suspects is potentially long. But now I wonder if the NOI was involved somehow.

Anyone care to bet the "progressives" will bury this article as hate speech? After all, it is derogatory towards Liar-Americans.

What a Beauchump.......

As it stands now, the U.S. Army in Kuwait, like the U.S. Army in Iraq, is casting strong doubts on the veracity of Beauchamp's claims, stating that to the best they can determine at this time, the female contractor Beauchamp claims to have abused is either part of an "urban legend or myth."

Who will max smear to explain this one away?

re: #165 Axiom

Aw man. We're only 'racist' to Maxie Blumenthal?

We gotta step it up folks. Surely we are more than just 'racist'.

Slackers. Everyone of ya. Where's the hate?

Trent Lott warns of terror attack, urges people to flee DC.

Way to man up, Trent.

re: #164 Kenneth

Beauchamp is blaming the world for the fact he's a loathsome creep.

This is the essence of irresponsibility, and this denial of responsibility is at the core of Leftism! "I am not bad, SOCIETY is bad, so let's CHANGE SOCIETY!"

re: #155 Ben Hur

Last time I was there, the Black Muslim Bakery had a food stand inside the secure area at the Oakland California airprort.

re: #156 realwest

From his own website. He's one smug smug psuedo-intellectual bore: lots of photos of himself preening, complaining about how hard life is being posted to Germany, and -severe content warning - poetry!

re: #169 zmdavid

Overt as opposed to stealth racists? Would that be OK? I think he said overt because he didn't want to have to build a case.

Notice the lack of a link to back up the claim.

Who are you going to trust, a bunch of murderous illiterate thugs or a budding literary genius, a veritable young Hemingway.

ronaldusmagnus (#6),

Behold the power of the blogosphere.

You said it.

Back then if you were a Lefty wannabe who joined the service (after repeatedly trying to get out of serving) you could get away with any number of damning lies:

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam

And it took twenty years for them to be proven false.

Today there are legions of fact checkers who have instant access to the whole globe.

Thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet.

re: #166 Ben Hur

Bangladesh Slipping Toward Islamic Extremism, Muslim Zionist Says

Can I get a What? What?

What the HELL is a Muslim Zionist?

re: #177 AmeriDan,

I'm afraid if I jack my hate up much more Charles will ban me.

Well frost my pop tarts...nobody here seems to be surprised by this development.

I wonder why...

(sorry, I'm a little giddy on the last day of summer school)

"Fake But Accurate"

Anyone, anyone ...

Thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet.

LOL, Geepers.

A Winter Soldier in the finest tradition.

The lad did serve in uniform, but I get the sneaking suspicion he joined not to serve the Army but defame it. The kid was far left journo in college, why ever did he don the green uniform? Do you ever see anyone at KOS saying, "I really want to serve my country in Iraq, I am signing up?" Those are the people who share most of his opinions. Why did he join? Army benefits?

We do know, he gets to Iran and publishes an inflammatory article which his own platoon-mates deem to be factually challenged. The article was called out as soon as it came out. The dog killing and humiliation of an injured fellow soldier (a woman!) are so out of character for basic American service behavior. Knowing American military culture, a person sporting an honorable wound is accorded deference not contempt. TNR's claim on the dog killing was to explain how it is possible to swing a Bradley around to kill a dog but that in no way proves the troops actually engaged in such activity.

What has not happened is a soldier coming forward saying I am Army Pfc. so and so, I serve in such and such brigade of such and such unit, battalion that company this, and platoon this, squad whatever and EVERY SINGLE WORD BEAUCHAMP SAYS IS TRUE.

In the Army you stick with your buddies. There can be no doubt that articles like Beauchamp's really anger the top brass and pressure from above is high but most troops will not lie when ordered to do so. They may accept orders to be quiet about something but not to affirmatively lie. The fact that Beauchamp seems to have no one backing his changing story is deeply troubling.

And let's put it this way, the people on this blog contain may people with military backgrounds and are widely believed to hold what are considered conservative opinions similar to the majority of military personnel- can you imagine under any circumstances where you would tolerate the humiliation of a wounded woman whose face carries the mark of an enemy IED? What would you do to ANYONE who did such a thing.

Take our own Iron Fist, just another poster at LGF, I know for absolute fact that he would beat the crap out of anyone who did such a thing. The described behavior is so far outside 2007 American norms that it is to be disbelieved as soon as you hear it.

Yes rude behavior happens all the time. Young people, in particular can be rude, but only people with severe personality disorders would commit such an act, to do so while wearing a US uniform risks a crushing visit of military justice, time in the brig and a dishonorable discharge.

Lucy Ramirez, the "source" of the Texas Air National Guard faxes, is the only source who will ever back up Beauchamp.

re: #163 Carridine ROTFLMAO!

Yep, it was Mark Steyn.

re: #181 Kenneth

severe content warning - poetry!

NOT POETRY! GAAAAAAAAAAAA~

OT: Good News From CAIR.

Really, really hoping he's one of those that gets made an example of and i hope it's for a long ass time.

Are Liberals a Race?

Liberals made me a Republican at the tender age of 'I can read'

Thank God for Freedom
Thank God for America
Thank God for LGF

Charles thank you for your tireless and worhtwhile efforts, they are not in vain

freedom is not free

Live Free or Die

re: #186 wvobiwan

The Muslim Zionist
Does the Koran support Jewish control of the Holy Land?

Palazzi's impeccable credentials as a Muslim cleric include a Ph.D. in Islamic Sciences by decree of the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia and years of study with Islamic teachers in Cairo and Europe. A leader of the Muslim community in Italy, he currently serves as secretary-general of the Italian Muslim Assembly in Rome.

And he's a Zionist.

For some reason, I disdain these Scott Beauchamp types more than I do the people who would gladly chop my head off given the chance.

Wasn't it Dante who put traitors at the lowest rung of hell? Perhaps he was right.

I'm a bit confused as to the singular/plural usage in Matt Sanchez' blog Have all of the allegations been disproven or just one?

After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the "Baghdad Diarist", have been

"refuted by members of his platoon and proven to be false"

refer to #130

re: #186 wvobiwan

What the HELL is a Muslim Zionist?

A contradiction in terms, maybe? Actually a Muslim Zionist would be any Muslim who believes that Israel is the historic & spiritual homeland of the Jewish people and that Jews the world over have a right to return there to live as Jews in the land promised to them by the Lord.

You mean... left-wingers with a blind-faith blood lust agenda to smear the army, smear the war effort, smear the nation, smear the nation's commander in chief... are... LIARS!?!

gosh I'm so surprised....

oh and -- F U Andrew Sullivan - (and your idiot readers) you vile hypocrite creep.

re: #133 buzzsawmonkey

re: #95 Charles

Blumenthal, by the way, refers to LGF as "overtly racist."

Islam is not a "race!"

Racists are not allowed to determine what a race is.

OT
has anyone posted about this yet? House erupts in Chaos
Sounds more like the House of Commons than the House of Representatives.

re: #191 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

The lad did serve in uniform, but I get the sneaking suspicion he joined not to serve the Army but defame it.

Yes, absolutely. And isn't it incredible how the plot boomeranged on him?

#184 Geepers:

razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan

You misspelled "Jinjis"!

re: #178 JammieWearingFool

Maybe he has gotten the same gut feeling that Chertoff did... Perhaps they ate at the same place?

From Sanchez's comments section:

While Beauchamp's claims were not factually true, they illustrated a greater truth about the American military and the insidious effects that Bush's illegal war has one the troops.
Posted by: Moonbat_One

WTF is this guy talking about? It was proven false, it illustrates nothing but falseness.

#85. You just KNEW they were going to pivot from ``not factually true'' to ``illustrates larger truths'' (ie. leftist falsehoods and canards they WISH to be true) but I've never seen it illustrated so blatantly. Guess thats what happens when you've sucked on the college ``all truths are relative'' mushy moral-equvalence bong for four, five, six or seven years.

re: #191 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

The lad did serve in uniform, but I get the sneaking suspicion he joined not to serve the Army but defame it.

Then he is guilty of NOT MAKING KNOWN his reservations to the Oath of Induction. AND guilty of violating that Oath, because it requires 'defending America against enemies foreign and domestic'...
Beauchamp's in a VERY BAD POSITION of his own making!

re: #191 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

can you imagine under any circumstances where you would tolerate the humiliation of a wounded woman whose face carries the mark of an enemy IED? What would you do to ANYONE who did such a thing.

Most would go out of their way to be kind and helpful, IMHO.

Beauchamp is the type of shitbird that causes people to think that post partum abortion may be a viable concept in Western Civilization's struggle to preserve itself.

Beauchamp would have had much more "street cred" if he had wounded himself three times and made some crappy home movies before defaming the real warriors he served with...

re: #197 Killgore Trout

I didn't hardly believe my eyes reading that. Abdul Hadi Palazzi will probably be on the "Rushdie" list for these comments.

re: #210 gymnast

Disgusting.

OT: I have an uncontrollable craving for PBJ on white bread, potato chips and soup.

re: #211 christheprofessor

Beauchamp would have had much more "street cred" if he had wounded himself three times and made some crappy home movies before defaming the real warriors he served with...

OUCH. LOL

Wait for it folks

The Libs will chime in soon enough with their ever present

'fake but accurate' meme

this allows for untruths to be told to 'illustrate' a greater 'truth'

basically they are liars pushing a personal political agenda on others

i.e. FACISTS

Like the MSM

re: #214 Killgore Trout

OT: I have an uncontrollable craving for PBJ on white bread, potato chips and soup.

Any chance you're pregnant?

/drive-by

I want to start a pool....

When does Beauchamp announce he will run for office?

$5 a guess, the winner is whoever is closest without going over...

/just kidding....

Foer and co and fools. Everything that Beauchamp said was true except for the story happening in Iraq. I'm sorry, then first of all, stop saying 'everything'.

Say except for the lie that a cursory exam of our stories uncovered, we dare you to prove the rest. In court, I think the term would be fruit from the poisoned tree: everything else Beachamp says must be considered as coming from a liar.

It seems the Army took that dare and disproved more - has anyone seen more details from that report? More importantly, has anyone noticed how quickly the left side of this argument has switched to smearing?

Why do these elitists (blumey) always drag out the racist meme? It's absurd. I've been reading LGF for years now and have never seen a single racist post by the owner. In fact, I have never seen a single racist comment either (not that I can read every comment here - especially now that there are so many!).

Kirls

re: #208 Carridine

re: #191 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

The lad did serve in uniform, but I get the sneaking suspicion he joined not to serve the Army but defame it.

Then he is guilty of NOT MAKING KNOWN his reservations to the Oath of Induction. AND guilty of violating that Oath, because it requires 'defending America against enemies foreign and domestic'...
Beauchamp's in a VERY BAD POSITION of his own making!

i bet he was a tainted lib infiltrator. a traitor, actually.

re: #220 Kirly

Why do these elitists (blumey) always drag out the racist meme?

And then turn around and hypocritically out someone like it's shameful.

I so want to see this dipshit courtmartialed!

Kirls

re: #220 Kirly

Oh, I am a racist because I dare call Julian Bond, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson racists in the worst sense. And by definition, that would make me racist. At least that's what I've been told. And that makes LGF a hate site, don't you know?

re: #220 Kirly

Honestly, who really cares

Why do feel the kneejerk reaction (or is it guilt) to defend accusations of 'RACIST!'

Please, screw him, this is a free country, these freaks love to stifle speech that isn't theirs by callign people names and forcing them to defend themselves

You know what stop defending yourselves when naems are thrown and they lose their power

Who cares if he calls you a RACIST, I mean really, this is so silly, like 2nd grade

We have nothing to fear but fear itself

re: #217 MandyManners

i'm going to make that recipe. how nice on a summer evening.

re: #215 gop_patriot

A twofer!

Who first said "Fake but accurate?"

While Beauchamp's claims were not factually true, they illustrated a greater truth about the American military and the insidious effects that Bush's illegal war has one the troops.

Re-write for stupid racists at LGF:
Beauchamp's claims prove that when you join THIS military run by BUSH and are sent to HIS war, you are compelled to lie just to get the real story to the people.
/head ache coming on now

re: #217 MandyManners

Since I quit smoking I've been having odd food cravings.

re: #210 gymnast,

Really late-term abortion. He's in what, his 92^nd trimester?

re: #225 goodbye_natalie

So 2nd grade,

The racists name calling tag is beyond silly its preposterous

Anyone who bothers defending themselves from it is wasting air

Just ignore morons - dont feed them, right folks?

re: #225 goodbye_natalie

See, I always thought that I was a racist because I believe race shouldn't be a factor in decision making.... Go figure.

re: #229 Idle Drifter

Search it, I think wiki has something on it

re: #208 Carridine

re: #191 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

The lad did serve in uniform, but I get the sneaking suspicion he joined not to serve the Army but defame it.

Then he is guilty of NOT MAKING KNOWN his reservations to the Oath of Induction. AND guilty of violating that Oath, because it requires 'defending America against enemies foreign and domestic'...
Beauchamp's in a VERY BAD POSITION of his own making!

It's all about being cool and popular. Their image is enhanced among the other people they think are cool and popular by doing these things. It's an adolescent clique based on hippiedom. E.g., would Senator Kerry or Jane Fonda feel like they contributed through their "cool" actions to the ease with which Cambodia and VN suffered the slaughter of 2mil people after our military left the scene? I read that Jane Fonda said, "it's not our fault." The good news for our country is that large numbers of the younger generations seem to be calling bs on this coolness. If we can survive the golden years of the baby boomers, I think we'll come out ok.

re: #217 MandyManners

re: #214 Killgore Trout

OT: I have an uncontrollable craving for PBJ on white bread, potato chips and soup.

Any chance you're pregnant?

/drive-by

And if so, name the unscrupulous cad!

Kirly (#220),

Why do these elitists (blumey) always drag out the racist meme?

Can't prove your case? Pound your shoe on the podium.

Anatomy of a crude smear.

Media Matters (with an assist from Arianna Sullivan) slimes Marine Cpl. Matt Sanchez...

On March 6, several gay bloggers, including Joe.My.God, publicly identified Sanchez as a former porn actor and male escort. Sanchez's prior activities were also the subject of a segment on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann. The segment featured Media Matters research fellow Max Blumenthal, the author of this item, discussing his Huffington Post article, "CPAC's Gay Porn Star Honoree, Ann Coulter, and the Politics of Personal Crisis."

In spite of the widespread availability of these facts about Sanchez, the Weekly Standard's Goldfarb identified Sanchez as merely an active duty soldier who "stands by his work."

Who freakin cares if Sanchez is a flambe. It's irrelevant to the issue at hand, which is Pvt. Scott Beachamp's lies.

re: #234 christheprofessor

I just dont have the patience or mindspace to waste on over thinking

I've never bothered to contemplate that much or deep - not a big drinker I guess

Preview is everyone's friend. PIEF.

re: #233 mglazer

Actually, I don't say defend yourself against the racist meme but do challenge them to prove it. They can't of course and will then follow the typical lefty style of argument / discussion and change the subject. hmmm, had that happen to me just the other day. Conclusion, I'm mean!

Kirls

re: #207 RaiderDan

From Sanchez's comments section:

While Beauchamp's claims were not factually true, they illustrated a greater truth about the American military and the insidious effects that Bush's illegal war has one the troops.
Posted by: Moonbat_One

WTF is this guy talking about? It was proven false, it illustrates nothing but falseness.

#85. You just KNEW they were going to pivot from ``not factually true'' to ``illustrates larger truths'' (ie. leftist falsehoods and canards they WISH to be true) but I've never seen it illustrated so blatantly. Guess thats what happens when you've sucked on the college ``all truths are relative'' mushy moral-equvalence bong for four, five, six or seven years.

The definition of "Fake, but accurate" - reinforcing the myth they've built up for themselves. Hardly different from the "9/11 Troofers".

re: #243 buzzsawmonkey

Billy Ray ;)

re: #178 JammieWearingFool

Trent Lott is a chicken sh*t. Man up Dude, jeez what a coward.

They are the ones who should face down the terrorists. Isn't that why they were elected?

Could someone bring in a giant broom and sweep DC clean? The cowardice is beginning to smell.

Susan

Beauchump is derving of far more than what the UCMJ proscribes.

Dirty rat bastard.

Anyway, this one goes out to our guys & gals who are actually doing their jobs, and making us proud... and managing not to shit all over their comrades and the flag either.

With the power of metal I SMITE THEE, Beauchump. A viking you will never be.

re: #242 Kirly

I guess I'm lazy, but why bother seriously, just seems like a wee bit over analyzing - I understand webbies do a lot of that i.e. Fisking, but again I guess I'm just lazy, 'cause I haven't done much of that myself.

re: #203 gop_patriot

OT
has anyone posted about this yet? House erupts in Chaos
Sounds more like the House of Commons than the House of Representatives.

The wheels are falling off of the wagon.

re: #233 mglazer

Now that I think about it and before I quit work to become a poor student, I was lending my financial support to BOND led by the Rev. Jesse Peterson. It was set up to help underprivileged youth, most urban black. And since Rev. Peterson has been called every name under the sun, including an Uncle Tom, that would also make me a racist for my financial support.

Oh, and I personally think SCOTUS Clarence Thomas to be a good man and an excellent judge so that makes me racist.

I actually wear the racist tag pretty proudly anymore.

Deserving.

Damn. I was mad.

re: #233 mglazer

re: #225 goodbye_natalie

So 2nd grade,

The racists name calling tag is beyond silly its preposterous

Anyone who bothers defending themselves from it is wasting air

Just ignore morons - dont feed them, right folks?

Being called "racist" is the worst thing that could ever happen to a El Cubo, so naturally, it's their weapon of first resort.

Blumenthal also reveals the shocking secret that Throbert McGee is gay. Wow... I mean, who knew?

Jewish Jihad is Better
by Steven Shamrak

"It is time for the Jewish people to shake off "Mitzraim" ("Egypt" as a metaphor for internal slavery) and declare our own jihad. This is the fight against self-doubt, self-hate and lack of self-respect. We must unite the Jewish nation, get rid of our enemies and reunite our land. Only when we start to believe in ourselves will the respect from "them" follow."

re: #187 Iron Fist

re: #177 AmeriDan,

I'm afraid if I jack my hate up much more Charles will ban me.

At the very least, you could mock the burka. Because let's face it, that's some serious hating going on to make fun of the burka. It being a true symbol of women's rights and all. An expression of their freedom, if you will. According to certain members of the ROP and not once, since 9/11 being brought up by our liberal "gals" that don't have a problem with it since then.

Ask Nancy!

re: #241 Cartman

No time :)

dispatches from Northern Virginia...the 3rd ID just rumbled through on their vehicles, crushing kittens and driving on people's lawns...non-Asians caught up in their treads...headed to silence some progressive voices no doubt.....they didn't spot me...hang on...choppers. Choppers coming.........nevermind, it was the traffic guy...that's all for now...please tell the world....

re: #85 NoSubmission

From Sanchez's comments section:

While Beauchamp's claims were not factually true, they illustrated a greater truth about the American military and the insidious effects that Bush's illegal war has one the troops.
Posted by: Moonbat_One

WTF is this guy talking about? It was proven false, it illustrates nothing but falseness.

That's the problem around here...you people are always thinking that facts hold the answers...sheesh.

/need I?

I love left wing foundations and their so called journals. My favorite is the Nation Institute.

Here are some fun facts relative to Max Blumenthal.

1) Max is a Puffin Foundation writing fellow for the Nation.
2) The Puffin Foundation awards a yearly citizenship prize of $100,000.
3) Amy Goodman of Democracy Now won this prize in 2006.
4) Max has appeared on Democracy Now to talk about his writing for the Nation.
5) The Puffin Foundation is controlled by the Rosenstein family. It was started by Perry Rosenstein and his wife. The Rosenstein family controls and operates Brighton Best Screw Mfg Inc.

A writing fellowship usually means you receive a set salary and a monthly living expenses stipend. This means that Max and his travels are likely being funded by the Puffin Foundation.

Other cool stuff. The Puffin Foundation funded the work for Jeremy Scahill for his reporting on Blackwater.

re: #248 mglazer

re: #242 Kirly

I guess I'm lazy, but why bother seriously, just seems like a wee bit over analyzing - I understand webbies do a lot of that i.e. Fisking, but again I guess I'm just lazy, 'cause I haven't done much of that myself.

Maybe because I still have hope that if their lies are challenged often enough, fewer and fewer people will listen and believe them. Hmmm. I'm a bit old to be so idealistic though, aren't I?

Kirls

Occasional Reader (#254),

Yeah, you had to do some pretty deep investigave work to unearth that.

re: #240 mglazer

Well, I was once told (off the record), after a job interview, that the department I interviewed with wanted to hire me, but first HR had to make sure they didn't need to hire a woman or minority. As it was, they'd already met the quota, so I was hired.

I'm 100% serious...

Sometimes we are forced to contemplate things we'd not normally waste any neurons on...

Blumenthal also drags up the old Leftist tactic of calling those he doesn't agree with gay, and exposing their supposedly bizzare sex lives. (Hey, it worked with Dr. Tom Dooley!)

(I thought there wasn't supposed to be anything wrong with that?)

Christopher Dodd will protect him...

re: #251 goodbye_natalie,

Ain't it funny? Used to be a racist was someone who judged other people based on the color of their skin. Now a racist is someone who judges others based on the content of their character.

I doubt MLK would consider that to be progress.

...and it also doesn't help that in the title of the article Beauchamp is misspelled as Beachamp

Murhta and $150M in Pork

re: #251 goodbye_natalie

That's crazy. The HR wasn't the brightest to tell you that, it's illegal to not hire someone based solely on their race/gender. The Justice dept. would have a field day with a company HR saying that publically.

re: #263 christheprofessor

re: #240 mglazer

Well, I was once told (off the record), after a job interview, that the department I interviewed with wanted to hire me, but first HR had to make sure they didn't need to hire a woman or minority. As it was, they'd already met the quota, so I was hired.

I'm 100% serious...

Sometimes we are forced to contemplate things we'd not normally waste any neurons on...

They will be checking political views one day. No wait, they already do that. You are their token Boooshbot!

re: #270 mglazer

Whoops,

That was meant for:

#263 christheprofessor

re: #212 goodbye_natalie

Palazzi is pretty extraordinary, but he's not the only one. Magdi Allam from Corriere Della Sera is also pro-Israel, and he's a Muslim (and not a Copt, as some would have it). Kabyle Berbers (from Algeria) also tend to like Israel, but I don't know if one should count them, since they are fairly secular and do not all like to be called Muslims. The head of the Berber Academy, Mohand-Aarab Bessaoud, sent a letter in 1967 to the then-president of Algeria chastizing him for taking part in the war against "the small, courageous people of Israel". When the police started killing protesters in Kabylia in 2001 (in the end 120 or so were murdered), some of the youth began shouting slogans in favor of Sharon. Here is an interesting article on Kabyles and Jews for the benefit of French-speakers - unfortunately I don't think it has been translated:

[Link: www.afrique-du-nord.com...]

re: #262 Geepers