The kid is just a kid. It has got to be tough being a young person today, possibly educated beyond one’s maturity and having one’s mush-brained thoughts saved for eternity on Google’s cache.
Not saying he should be given a pass, but I shudder to think if my journal written as a college freshman had been available to posterity on ‘search’. I know what he wrote he wrote for publication and he should have known better, but I’m not certain I would have....
I’m the first to say that I’m glad my life isn’t out there for people to scrutinize, but Beauchamp was born in 1983, which makes him 23 or 24, hardly a “kid”, and as in the link posted below your post, he did this to give cred to his own liberal politics.
He knew just what he was doing. He just did not think he would be caught.