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How they lied

Posted on August 9, 2007 | Comments Off on How they lied

Most newspaper libraries I’ve been in stock a current copy of the liberal Nation and, in their minds, to "balance" things out, a current copy of The New Republic, which is mainly liberal but pretends to objectivity. I have never seen current or even outdated copies of National Review, The Weekly Standard, or any other blatantly conservative mag. Don’t want impressionable young reporter minds polluted with contrary ideas, you know. Now the Confederate Yankee blog has figured out one of TNR’s anonymous confirming sources on the Beauchamp fiasco–very surprisingly, a normally very public public relations man for BAE Systems, the maker of the Bradley IFV, named Doug Coffey–and discovered that he was not asked to verify what Beauchamp reported, only some general queries. Now that he knows what the actual issue was, he is calling BS on Beauchamp’s report. Pretty slick TNR. You almost got away with it.

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Lies a soldier told

Posted on August 3, 2007 | Comments Off on Lies a soldier told

The New Republic’s "Baghdad Diarist" admits he erred (or, as Power Line says, the actual word is lied) about one of his three controversial reports. The others he’s apparently sticking to, and TNR claims (not very convincingly) to have anonymous sources corroborating them. Ah, those everpresent anonymous sources the MSM loves so much. So handy. His chain of command, meanwhile, says they can find no proof of the other two incidents, either. No word yet on Beauchamp’s fate. Ah, the wages of ambition.

UPDATE  The Army makes it official. They can find no evidence, etc., for the truth of any of it. TNR is sticking to its anonymous sources. Standoff, I guess you could say, except that Mr. Beauchamp is sans laptop and cellphone and, henceforth, is incommunicado. 

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Dishonorable discharge?

Posted on July 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Dishonorable discharge?

Jack Kelly, a veteran himself, has got it right. The New Republic’s "Baghdad Diarist" has been outed and now his journalistic and military "careers" are on the line, as well they should be:

"Now that they’ve demonstrated their diarist is a real soldier, the New Republic’s editors feel vindicated. But the issue is not whether Pvt. [Scott Thomas] Beauchamp is a soldier. It’s whether he’s telling the truth or not. And his story stinks to high heaven."

As Kelly says, if he’s lying, then he and his liberal editors are exposed as the partisan fools they are. If he’s telling the truth, then he and everybody in his chain of command is headed for judicial punishment. Either way, Chuck, you’re toast.

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