Posted on 07/26/2007 2:30:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
“Scott Thomas” steps out of the shadows Update: The blog of “Sir Real Scott Thomas” Update: His MySpace page Update The soon-to-be wife of Scott Thomas Beauchamp?
Update 4:15pm Eastern. Dean Barnett on the end of the beginning of the “Scott Thomas” affair…
TNR employed as its Baghdad correspondent a guy who was there specifically to mock the war effort while he hopefully advanced his own career as a writer by doing so. Beauchamp’s champions (not that I’m aware of any) have the potential defense that he was a young man who didn’t know any better. TNR’s editors do not. They gravitated to Scott Thomas Beauchamp because he would have the “moral authority” necessary to slander the troops with impunity, a moral authority that Franklin Foer and company of course lack.
One other note: Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s life will be a smoldering ruin when this affair has run its course. His partners in crime at The New Republic will still have jobs and careers. Will they see Scott Beauchamp in their nightmares? And will they see the 160,000 honorable and noble troops that together they conspired to malign?
Just fyi: Here’s Reeve quoting Beauchamp in one of her articles in 2004 for The Columbia Missourian at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Update 2:54pm Eastern. Ace reports that the soon-to-be wife of Scott Thomas Beauchamp is…TNR staffer Elspeth Reeve. According to the TNR masthead, she’s a reporter-researcher for the magazine. Or was? According to Discarded Lies, a TNR staffer was fired this morning. That staffer was the source of the leaks…Update again…I just called TNR’s office and left a message for Reeve. She still works there. Will see if she calls back.
Allah weighs in at Hot Air:
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He states he is “taking time out of an insane schedule fighting an actual war” to answer allegeations.
But apparently he and his comrades have time to play with a child’s skull and run over dogs with tracked Bradleys and so on.
He could stand under Niagra falls for a week and not come clean.
yummy !!!
John Kerry wannabe alright.
The pablum Beauchamp offers is a combination of the twice heard sea stories rattling around every hooch and fanciful elaborations on his own experiences, all catered to the role expected of him by his dutifully impressed homeland honey. The tragic part is that someone had the gaul to publish magical realism as “journalism”. What happened was his TNR honey called him, desperate to save her own reputation as his literary pimp, and he had to choose between a future literary career, a worshipping wife, and the possibility of becoming a leftist hero... or his own integrity and the brotherhood of combat. Like most weak men, he chose the former, and will reap a glorious career from it. The left has always had a soft spot for liars.
Pray for W and Our Troops
So casual. Dont all privates do that? Take time off from fighting a war whenever they feel like it? /s
I bet this wanna be guy probably hasn’t even fired his weapon let alone his gun!
ROTFLMAO.....
You must have served....
Dean Barnett on Hugh Hewitt right now discussing TNR.
Check mt tag line.
Ping!
This thing stinks to high heaven. I wonder if the liberal dweebs at TNR have enough character to feel embarrassed.
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