Re: What's that now? [Mark Steyn]
Jonah, it's even more precious than that. Scott Thomas Beauchamp complains that his character has been called into question. Just for the record, here is Private Beauchamp's character in his own words:
“I think she’s f*****g hot!” I blurted out.
“What?” said my friend, half-smiling.
“Yeah man,” I continued. “I love chicks that have been intimate—with IEDs. It really turns me on—melted skin, missing limbs, plastic noses . . . .”
“You’re crazy, man!” my friend said, doubling over with laughter. I took it as my cue to continue.
“In fact, I was thinking of getting some girls together and doing a photo shoot. Maybe for a calendar? ‘IED Babes.’ We could have them pose in thongs and bikinis on top of the hoods of their blown-up vehicles.”
My friend was practically falling out of his chair laughing. The disfigured woman slammed her cup down and ran out of the chow hall, her half-finished tray of food nearly falling to the ground.
In English libel law, Private Beauchamp would be regarded as a man with no character left to defend.
07/26 10:01 AM
So it was Scott Thomas HIMSELF that’s making jokes of disfigured vitims. Hmmmmmm. Does he also drive a Bradley?
Let me get this straight. The New Republic publishes an article by a soldier and in that article the soldier writes that he made fun of a disfigured woman wounded in combat. Why would they publish something by an author so comtemptible?