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The Washington Post/Media Notes ^ | July 27, 2007 | Howard Kurtz

[MizSterious]

So he feels "retarded." What a loser.

[MizSterious]

It looks like they took away his crayons and won’t let him play “writer” any more!

If you click on the link, take along a barfbag. For one thing, you’ll discover that according to many, those who are exposing this jerk are the bad guys.

Life is strange.

[Always Right]

I have a feeling he was retarted before he joined.

[bmwcyle]

"retarded for joining the army,"

Anyone who joined the military almost always has second thoughts. This is the same when you take some jobs. The key factor is you do your best and work towards your next profession in life.

[Lurker]

This creep needs to be charged with War Crimes. After all he's admitted to committing them, or at least tolerating them.

Then we can watch him spin on the stand.

That'd be fun.

L

[Smokin' Joe]

...according to many, those who are exposing this jerk are the bad guys.

Oh, but of course!! This mole, ahem!, person, was trying to be the 'ultimate embed' and gain cred with the lib lefties that he could wave around to decry the same folks who have been covering his back. Lovely.

It reeks of things 'seared into his memory...'

Let the military handle this guy...

If he saw and did not report it, they got him

If he did it...they got him.

If he denies it, he is just another two-bit liar trying to be the next Jason Blair...

[Anti-Bubba182]

Beauchamp is toast. He will be totally discredited.

[Jeff Chandler]

he feels "retarded"

Go with that feeling.

[Jeff Chandler]

trying to be the next Jason Blair...

Yep, soon to be a military "expert" for the Drive-By Media. Watch for his face on CNN, MSNBC, etc..

[yoe]

Apparently there is only one “reporter” in theater telling it like it is. No agenda Michael Yon, a beautiful writer and one that all who know him are grateful for.

[elc]

". . .conservative blogosphere has taken such an almighty empirical beating this last year. . ."

When did this happen?

[vpintheak]

Too funny and totally exposes the infantile mindset of your common hate the man lieberal regressive. Waaa waaa I don’t like what they are doing, I’m becoming more liberal! What a joke.

[Spiff]

You’d think that The New Republic would have learned something - ANYTHING - from the whole Stephen Glass episode. It is obvious that they didn’t. Idiots...

[Para-Ord.45]

This one seems to be a total fraud:

” In a blog entry for May 8, 2006, Pvt. Beauchamp describes an atrocity: “’Put a 556 in his head.’ (The caliber of an M-16 rifle is 5.56 millimeters.) On the street below, the man’s brown face dissolves in a thick red mist. The lights in the city’s houses shut off in unison. Electricity rationing. Water rationing too. You ever tried to survive for more than a few hours in 120 degree weather?”

On May 8, 2006, Pvt. Beauchamp was in Germany, where temperatures rarely reach 120 degrees, and the electricity and water work just fine.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/pvt_beauchamp_in_big_trouble_e.html

[Hoffer Rand]

We’re taking a beating? Who knew? Probably more like waving our hand at the incessant whining of some liberal insect.

[Tzimisce]

If our national security depended on this blogger, we’d know EVERYTHING about him.

But since he’s a “unbiased, non partisan” (i.e. - a big lib) the media will cover for him.

[elhombrelibre]

Hmmm, I looked him up on AKO - Army Knowledge Online. He’s there. Someone else pointed out that he was once a PFC and now PV2. That’s something that needs explaining. His wife’s relationship with New Republic just allowed him to make them once again the boobs and rubes of fabulists writing and reading.

[Anti-Bubba182]

A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP:

"As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon, a formal military investigation has also been launched into the incidents described in the piece.

Although the article was rigorously edited and fact-checked before it was published, we have decided to go back and, to the extent possible, re-report every detail. This process takes considerable time, as the primary subjects are on another continent, with intermittent access to phones and email. Thus far we've found nothing to disprove the facts in the article; we will release the full results of our search when it is completed.

In the meantime, the author has requested that we publish the statement below. --The Editors "

"My Diarist, "Shock Troops," and the two other pieces I wrote for the New Republic have stirred more controversy than I could ever have anticipated. They were written under a pseudonym, because I wanted to write honestly about my experiences, without fear of reprisal. Unfortunately, my pseudonym has caused confusion. And there seems to be one major way in which I can clarify the debate over my pieces: I'm willing to stand by the entirety of my articles for the New Republic using my real name.

I am Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division.

My pieces were always intended to provide my discrete view of the war; they were never intended as a reflection of the entire U.S. Military. I wanted Americans to have one soldier's view of events in Iraq.

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. I was initially reluctant to take the time out of my already insane schedule fighting an actual war in order to play some role in an ideological battle that I never wanted to join.

That being said, my character, my experiences, and those of my comrades in arms have been called into question, and I believe that it is important to stand by my writing under my real name."

--Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp

I hope they kick him out of the Army at a minimum.

[listenhillary]

It would be fun seeing his defense try to explain away the offenses as an overactive imagination.

A lose lose for the loser and the anti-war crowd.

[elhombrelibre]

Yon is the real deal.