Scott Thomas Revealed (updated)

American Thinker ^ | 7-26-07 | Rick Moran

[Renfield]

Link to the Ray Robinson post that is mentioned above:

http://ghostsonfilm.blogspot.com/

(Caution: lots of gratuitous vulgarity in the quotes from Beauchamp and his friend.)

[Renfield]

OOps, that link was supposed to read,

http://rayrobison.typepad.com/ray_robison/2007/07/need-help-from-.html

[snowrip]

It’s been maddening, to say the least, to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq.

Yeeeeeeeeeah... that would be because any time someone busts out a "tell-all expose" about "the truth about what is going on" in Iraq, thay're proven to be a lying idiot with a liberal agenda.

Oh, and they attempt to discredit any opposition by hiding behind the flag. "How dare anyone question my story, I've been to Iraq..." Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

[kjo]

This seems to have been a setup from the gitgo. The New Republic apparently knew this guy’s political orientation going in. Beauchamp is engaged to a TNR staffer; her imput in getting him hired? TNR so far hasn’t said.

Beauchamp while a student at the University of Missouri was a Howard Dean man. According to his own words he entered the military to give himself a certain credibility. Apparently like John Kerry’s Winter Soldier routine.

And you know, he’d gotten away with it but for the internet. The Old Media just can’t willy-nilly make up stuff anymore.

[Leisler]

"It’s been maddening...

[Leisler]

Kind of like a little Norman “Kingsly” Mailer.

[johnny7]

Beauchamp is engaged to a TNR staffer; her imput in getting him hired?

Plame/Wilson...

[RichInOC]

I think at this point they can just go ahead and change the name of the magazine to “The Untrue Republic”.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

...in order to play some role in an ideological battle that I never wanted to join.

Since he is a long-time and publicly committed leftist, his purported 'disdain' for joining ideological battles is more than a bit disingenuous, to say the least. If that statement limns his commitment to truth, one can feel free to completely disregard anything he says.

[Eroteme]

It’s been maddening, to say the least, to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq.

Pretty limp-wristed response to a challenge of a man's honesty. Where's the unequivocal, straightforward assertion of the accuracy and truth of the article?

Truth stands on its own. It's fiction that needs to be plausible. And apparently even Scotty knows the difference.

[Thrownatbirth]

Composing long, fictionalized accounts of your duty is not unknown among the enlisted. I had a shipmate who just liked to scare people back home witth some pretty convincing missives.

Somewhere between his congressman and the ship's chaplin, the scam fell apart.

[AmericaUnited]

I want to know how many ears he cut off and how many generators he wired up to testicles... Maybe he can run for Kerry’s seat when he retires.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Infiltraitor.

The anti-war Left has done this before.

[SteveMcKing]

"Ace reports that the soon-to-be wife of Scott Thomas Beauchamp is…The New Republic staffer Elspeth Reeve.

According to the TNR masthead, she’s a reporter-researcher for the magazine."

 

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/26/scott-thomas-steps-out-of-the-shadows/

[freekitty]

Why does the left even bother. We catch them in lies so much. This guy sounds like a real mental case.

As for marriage, maybe they married so she couldn’t testify against him when the you know what hits the fan.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "Pretty limp-wristed response"

Good point.

Yes, we've had plausible deniability now we got plausible assertion.

I would argue that the employees of TNR approved the use of the limp-wristed word.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Scott Beauchamp, editor-in-chief of Prospectus, a liberal campus news magazine. Beauchamp and Rehn met one year ago while campaigning for Howard Dean.

H/T Laughing Wolf

[bolobaby]

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[t2buckeye]

Since he joined the military AFTER the invasion in Iraq, he knew that going there was in the cards. From what I read, HE was the one who encouraged making fun of the woman in the tent....I foresee the military checking up on his guy..and HE will make a big deal about it when they do. I have a feeling he doesn’t like Iraq anymore and is hoping that his writings will get him in trouble so that he can build it up into something even bigger. If I were in his unit, I wouldn’t put my life in his hands...

[StarCMC]

He’s gotta work on getting those purple hearts first.