Breaking the Scott Thomas Beauchamp stalemate
Update 11:04am Eastern. Why this matters, especially on a day like today when Washington is battling over war narratives: Read “The Big Picture.”
Update 10:00am Eastern. Response from Franklin Foer to my request for an on-camera interview about the Beauchamp fables…
Thanks for the offer. I’m going to decline.
See also investigative blogger Bob Owens, who’s got more coming and adds:
All in all, this is going to be a very bad day for Franklin Foer and The New Republic, who by now, just wish this story would go away. What they don’t seem to grasp is that at this point, they are the story…In the end, if TNR owners CanWest Mediaworks hopes to retain any corporate credibility at all, a purge of the defective detectives that make up the editorial staff The New Republic is certainly warranted.
Here’s Bob Owens exclusive interview at PJM with Major John Cross, who led the U.S. Army’s investigation into Private Beauchamp’s shocking claims. “Even more shocking is what Cross reveals…: Among other findings, there is no credible evidence that TNR made any attempt at fact checking prior to publishing the articles. Furthermore, not one of the soldiers interviewed under oath in the investigation corroborated Beauchamp’s story.”
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At Hot Air, we followed up on the Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair. We dropped in on Weekly Standard online editor Michael Goldfarb and tried to do the same at The New Republic…with vastly different results. Check it out.
See-Dubya notes:
The New Republic is lying about the Army–claiming that (A) they’ve sequestered Beauchamp and are prohibiting him from contacting TNR, and that (B) the Army is lying when they say he’s free to contact TNR if he likes to.
If TNR actually believed that, why haven’t they done an all out full court press to free Scott Beauchamp and let him speak? Why haven’t they fired up the entire smart left wing set with this unparalleled outrage, this muzzling of a journalist, this blot on the First Amendment?
Why aren’t the NYT and TNR and everyone on the Left clamoring fulsomely for the Army to let Beauchamp clear his name?
Sure, Beauchamp’s a freelance writer sending in columns, and not a full-time TNR employee (like his fiancee is), but still: if I were in Beauchamp’s position and had been truthful all along, I’d like to think my editors would raise a little hell on my behalf and give me a chance to tell my story and answer my critics.
Yep. And so much for being incommunicado. Readers point out that Beauchamp is checking into his MySpace. His last login: Sept. 6.
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- Hot Air » Blog Archive » New Vent: Checking up on The New Republic; Update: Foer ducks
- Daily Pundit » Water Torture
- Old War Dogs
- Final Chapter of Scott Thomas Beauchamp and TNR lies at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source.
- Michelle Malkin » Snorting at The New Republic
- Everybody Needs A Hobby « his vorpal sword
- Michelle Malkin » Drudge: The Beauchamp transcripts; Foer to Beauchamp: “Let us control the way this story proceeds;” Foer exploits Beauchamp’s wife: “Ellie sent me an e-mail to tell you that it’s the most important thi
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That’s some top shelf crapweaseling by TNR and Foer.
Is it just my browser or is the image missing there?
Thanks!
Not just you, the photo link appears to be down. Just click the “HotAir” link in the text.
Thanks, PB. I coulda clicked misc text links to figure it, but I’m not as ambitious as you on a Monday morning!
Yes, there’s a missing image tag (bmp,gif, jpg, etc).
Have you heard back from ffoer@tnr.com?
Guffaw.
Beauchamp has had no trouble updating his Myspace page, having last logged in Sept 6th.
Maybe he just lost Franklyn’s email addy. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
#5 Maybe everyone should e-mail him to encourage him to make that appointment w/MM soon?
At least the receptionist was somewhat of a sweet lady but you know she didn’t feel comfortable lying for the “crapweasel” and c’mon how busy could he be? I wonder how he was able to reach his tele to take her call from under his desk?
This is absolutely beautiful. Continue to launch your Tomahawks, MM. TNR has nowhere to hide. They are finished.
Yeah, AJ, ya gotta feel some sympathy for nice people who get stuck having to run interference for people like Foer.
Maybe we need to start a “Free Foer!” movement.
There’s a shocker! lol
I wonder if the leftie press has the message by now? Their innuendo, half-truths & lies will be exposed and they will be held to account for their traitorous propaganda.
Any word if any
parasiteslawyers are doing the libel lawsuit lambada?I’m sure mr. beauchump is begging to have an adolescent reefer fest in his momma’s basement right now in order to artificially inflate some semblance of self respect.
Would you like to purchase a conscience instead, mr. beauchump?
Outstanding story coverage. What I love most about blogs is the freedom they have to cover a story, and if they want to be taken seriously by the MSM, they do their due diligence and print corrections and apologies. An integrity issue, as they stand or fall by what they do or don’t do. Seems as if Foer doesn’t want to commit professional seppuku, but did anyway just because he had an axe to grind.
And these are the people that call conspiracy nuts weirdos.
The mind boggles.
One of the big lessons we learned from Watergate is this: the problem wasn’t the burglary, it was the stonewalling and cover-up. This is why, for the most part, Repubs air their dirty laundry and self-flagellate, Dems don’t think they have to.
Michelle, I’ll bet Foer’s got a dart board in his office right now with your picture taped onto it. Hiding behind his receptionist. What a sorry specimen from the Fourth Estate.
I agree with a comment I saw on the Confederate Yankee blog, though: a big reason why Foer and the rest of the gang at TNR are hunkering down is because they correctly perceive that their loyal readership doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about “the truth” and is only interested in “the narrative.”
People who are living a lie sometimes don’t take kindly to those who would burst the bubble-world they’ve created for themselves (See also Rivera, Geraldo). But at least Foer isn’t threatening to spit on you…
Keep after em, Queen Bee; I haven’t had this much fun watching a worm squirming on the end of a hook since the last time I went fishing as a kid.
I’m amazed his blog is still up. I woulda thought he would have totally scrubbed it.
Bad Candy #16, they have no shame - see Senator John Kerry. Being discredited means nothing to them…
If today’s Internet existed during the days of Vietnam, millions of South East Asians who aren’t alive today might have been.
Meanwhile, the US Navy helps the people of Nicaragua and Honduras deal with their hurricane aftermath. You don’t read of that in the news.