I think it amazing that this Scott Beauchamp story has been met with such stony silence from the mainstream media.  It has only been twelve hours now or so since the story came out that documents and transcripts of phone

Speaking of corruption and the Democrats, I see The New Republic has taken it in the ear again.  and the denizens of The New Republic are well into their “duck and cover” routines.  I’m guessing that they are hitting the

Billy;

Saw your note this morning…. As I stated in my comments we have seen this before.  It’s a typical ploy of Erb and his ilk, once cornered on a factual point to claim “it doesn’t matter. ” Aesop and

McQ does a fair job of following up on this Beauchamp thing:

“They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the

Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard is reporting:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp–author of the much-disputed “Shock Troops” article in the New Republic’s July 23 issue as

At last, Pvt Beauchamp’s, a.k.a. Scott Thomas, ambitions are revealed.  Beauchamp wants to write military novels, just like Senator Jim Webb, Virginia.  From Jack Kelly, Real Clear Politics:

In a blog entry for May 8, 2006, Pvt. Beauchamp describes

Confederate Yankee has been working for some time on the Scott Beauchamp thing. Yes, still. And he’s managed to obtain through that, the original statements of the soldiers who were questions by the Army over Beauchamp’s claims.

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Little Green Footballs notes:

The Only Man Who Can Save America tries to save himself from The New Republic’s article: Ron Paul Statement on The New Republic Article Regarding Old Newsletters.

“This story is old news and has been

Pete Wehner over at The Corner:

It turns out, of course, that it was TNR‘s critics, and not TNR, who were vindicated, and all honor is due to them.

What The New Republic didn’t understand, and still seems

Dale Franks finds enough blame to go all around on this Beuachamp thing.

The subtext(…In the Foer article…) is that the Army should have been more helpful, and that PVT Beauchamp should’ve been more helpful, and that conservative bloggers should’ve

Michelle is reporting on more shoddy reporting… this time from NRO…

Ugh. This is bad on many levels. W. Thomas Smith, Jr., a former Marine and milblogger who writes at National Review Online’s The Tank (and whose work in

It took thirteen pages of a fourteen page diatribe from Franklin Foer… most of which were him trying to save his job, but TNR has finally admitted that Beauchamp COULD have lied.

Bob Owens, of the Confederate Yankee, has

The Confederate Yankee is reporting that The New Republic has canned its head fact checker.:

Interesting (my bold):

The New Republic is looking for an assistant editor to fill an immediate opening in our Washington, DC office. The assistant editor

For the third time in the last two days, the website of The New Republic has come out with a decidedly “Democrat-Unfreindly” article. Here, we have one from Jon Cohn, questioning the wisdom of government healthcare, as an example.

And

Betsy Newmark, yesterday:

Mackubin Thomas Owens had a great column yesterday in honor of Veterans Day. He noted the proclivity of those in the media to treat those in the military as either victims or monsters. He notes that since