Posted on 10/26/2007 10:43:12 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
Mary Mapes school of journalism.
Stopped reading here - all lies after that.
Perhaps you just define “truth” in a different way than they do.
On the TNR site there’s an unrelated column with an unfortunate headline: What Lies Ahead
I use concrete for my definitions.
They use Silly Putty.
Seems their Freudian Slip is showing...
Maybe it because they're just a little busy fighting a flippin' WAR.
If these clowns were interested in the truth, they wouldn’t have published those ridiculous lies in the first place. This is the worse job of CYA I’ve ever seen. This is worse than “the dog ate my homework” and just as juvenile.
One possibility is that he was blowing off steam to his wife, and SHE pushed the story (she is some sort of deputy associate assistant editor at TNR).
Or maybe SHE thought it a good idea to make up the story and get him to "corroborate" it.
Fake but accurate, you know.
I guess the feeling is mutual.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, no, the New Republic has no political agenda, no axe to grind. They are only interested in objective reporting. That's really been noticeable over the years. Not.
Their order of procedure is, as it was in this case, have an agenda, write a story to support it, and then pretend that the administration is preventing them from doing an actual investigation, so it's not their fault if the facts on which the story was based were entirely falsified.
Seems to me, after reading this article, that the main pressure on Beauchamp (and his wife) is coming from the Left who has as much invested in losing this war, as the military does in winning it.
Here is related information from Michael Yon that gives more insight into what’s happening with Beauchamp, and the FR thread discussing it:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/beauchamp-and-the-rule-of-second-chances.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916282/posts
I hope Beauchamp by this time is cleaning Iraqi outhouses.
Beauchamp is an ignorant punk, and he did an ignorant punkish thing.
TNR, on the other hand, should know better.
Ignorance is curable, but stupidity is not.
I don't; I hope he's fighting his butt off to kill the bad guys over there. I hope he's learning WHO the bad guys really are. I hope he's on point and wondering if the guy behind him knows about the stunt he pulled.
I was reading what Yon wrote and thought he did a good job. Beauchamp, however, needs to be sent home immediately. This is continuing to give the Army a black eye and also provide cover for TNR. If Beauchamp stands by his story, why did he not have the balls to say so when his superiors were in the room. Seems he wants it both ways, recanting to his fellow soldiers and telling TNR and his wife he stands behind his story. Get him the hell out of Iraq and out of the army now.
Didn’t know that about Beauchamp’s wife working there. Glad you mentioned it. That makes me even more cynical about TNR’s “search for the truth”. The thirst for the BIG story, and a contribution to the BIG agenda must be overwhelming for them.
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