{"id":781,"date":"2007-10-24T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T21:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/beauchamp-and-the-new-republic-hung-by-their-own-petard\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T14:03:18","slug":"beauchamp-and-the-new-republic-hung-by-their-own-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Beauchamp and The New Republic hung by their own petard"},"content":{"rendered":"
What a shocker. Now, maybe the fabulist\/diarist will fade into long-overdue obscurity.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

SHOCK DOCS: THE NEW REPUBLIC \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSHOCK TROOPS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 STORY COLLAPSES
\nWED Oct 24 2007 12:29:44 ET<\/p>\n

The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained internal documents from the investigation of THE NEW REPUBLIC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Baghdad Diarist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, an Army private turned war correspondent who reported tales of military malfeasance from the Iraq War front.<\/p>\n

The documents appear to expose that once the veracity of Beauchamp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diaries were called into question, and an Army investigation ensued, THE NEW REPUBLIC has failed to publicly account for publishing slanderous falsehoods about the U.S. military in a time of war.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..THE NEW REPUBLIC has been standing behind the stories from their Baghdad Diarist, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, since questions were first raised about their accuracy over the summer. On August 10, the editors at TNR accused the Army of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stonewalling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d their investigation into the stories by preventing them from speaking with Beauchamp. The DRUDGE REPORT has since obtained the transcript of a September 7 call between TNR editor Frank Foer, TNR executive editor Peter Scoblic, and Private Beauchamp. During the call, Beauchamp declines to stand by his stories, telling his editors that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just want it to end. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to talk to anyone about anything really.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The editors respond that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, in good conscience, continue to defend the piece\u00e2\u20ac\u009d without an explanation, but Beauchamp responds only that he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care what the public thinks.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The editors then ask Beauchamp to cancel scheduled interviews with the WASHINGTON POST and NEWSWEEK.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6The DRUDGE REPORT has also obtained a signed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memorandum for Record\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which Beauchamp recants his stories and concedes the facts of the Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investigation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that his stories contained \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gross exaggerations and inaccurate allegations of misconduct\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by his fellow soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6The third document obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT is the Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official report on the investigation into the allegations made by Private Beauchamp. The Army concluded that Beauchamp had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153completely fabricated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the story of mocking a disfigured woman, that his description of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Saddam-era dumping ground\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was false, and that claims that he and his men had deliberately targeted dogs with their armored vehicles was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153completely unfounded.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Further the report stated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that Private Beauchamp desired to use his experiences to enhance his writing and provide legitimacy to his work possibly becoming the next Hemingway.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The report concludes that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Private Beauchamp takes small bits of truth and twists and exaggerates them into fictional accounts that he puts forth as the whole truth for public consumption.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Link: http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/flash8.htm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For some reason, the documents containing TNR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interview with Beauchamp were pulled from Drudge but HotAir.com was able to save them:<\/p>\n

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The entire story and additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TNR is still trying to cover their ass.\u00c2\u00a0 Admitting they fucked up beyond belief might have saved at least a shred of credibility.\u00c2\u00a0 Just reading the interview and Beauchamp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blithe responses makes me want to vomit.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a deafening silence on the TNR website. I can hardly wait to read their final sorry-assed excuse.<\/p>\n

Jonn added:<\/strong> Michele Malkin<\/a> has the whole story on the Beauchamp leaked documents in detail and timeline.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a shocker. Now, maybe the fabulist\/diarist will fade into long-overdue obscurity.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 SHOCK DOCS: THE NEW … Beauchamp and The New Republic hung by their own petard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}