Posted on 12/02/2007 12:16:35 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
Remember Scott Beauchamp? The soldier who wrote stories from the Middle East, about things like mocking a disfigured woman in a chow hall, running over a dog and wearing pieces of baby skull under helmets? The tales never rang true, but the editors of The New Republic ran with them like crack addicts looking for more baking soda. Now that TNR has posted a whinging, non-apology, Franklin Foer is your editorial man of the hour whose self-effacing pen is less mighty than his apparent ego. And thats why theres already a new movie out.
See source for lotsa kewl links.
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But for the internet this would have gone nowhere. The folks in the MSM have had a free ride for a long time. Ask Dan Rather. Now they actually have people who check their sources.
Dont’ think they like it. Much, much, harder to lie now.
That’s why protectors of Free Speech such a Hillary and the gang want to shut down internet groups such as Free Republic.
It exposes their games, and one thing the left hates more than anything is to have light shined on their activities.
Thanks, ‘nuther guddin. The source links to about a dozen “mutually cross linking” sites.
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