More On Scott Thomas Beauchamp And TNR
Posted By: 'Okie' | 9:54 am — 8/20/2007 | 
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Pajamas Media’s Richard Miniter connects even more of the dots outlining The New Republic diarist Scott Thomas‘ (Beauchamp) “Shock Troops” series in his post, How The New Republic Got Suckered. Only one TNR staffer has been fired over this scandal, and it wasn’t Franklin Foer, the TRN editor — not one fact checker has gotten the boot, no other senior editors either, certainly not Elspeth Reeve, a TNR fact checker who also happens to be Beauchamp’s wife! — the only one fired to date was former publisher’s assistant, Robert McGee for sending incriminating emails to the blog Ace of Spades. To top it all off, the ever-so-tolerant Left brings the hammer down about McGee being gay, and apparently a conservative to boot — another one of those Lefty nightmares like black Republicans and non-working mothers.
Here’s the lead in to the PM piece:
When Pajamas Media heard the authenticity questions surrounding the “Baghdad Diarist” articles by Scott Thomas Beauchamp in The New Republic, we asked our Washington Editor Richard Miniter to look into how the respected opinion magazine could once again be the locus of such a scandal.
Miniter spoke with several people involved in the extraordinary story, including the whistle-blower and a German woman who was Beauchamp’s fiancée until just before he married, of all people, Miniter discovered, a fact-checker at The New Republic. That fiancée said of her former boyfriend, the soldier/reporter: “He hates the army. The only reason he joined was because he wanted to have more experience to write about.”
Read on for that and other explanations of how The New Republic got suckered.
Indeed, do read on. It’s kind of fascinating really, and begs the question, “Why does this keep happening on the Left?” One of the commenters has a pretty good take on that one:
Bottom line, the left lies.
The left is antiAmerican, interested in power at the expense of truth and hypocritical in its attacks on non-believers.
Grab a cup o’ Joe or a bowl of popcorn and enjoy!
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