The Scott Beauchamp Narrative: A Liberals Dream

Update via The Weekly Standard: The military is investigating. And the tuth shall set us free ... and Beauchamp free from service, which I suspect is what he's wanted for some time.

The Scott Beauchamp narrative will eventually be manufactured into a liberals dream, unfortunately. The key element has already emerged. He got "stuck in Iraq" I've edited the comments, they were published before Beauchamp attempted to do what he claimed to want to do in the first place, cash in on his military experience.

But times changed, and (Beauchamp) Champion got in debt, all of a sudden everyone thought he was a bad guy. Well what the xxx? He's a good guy. He cares for his friends and his family and would do whatever he had to for them. He made mistakes, but who the xxxx doesn't, he's a little crazy sometimes, but who the xxxx isn't. It's bullshit. Champion got bullshitted, and I feel for him.

Like I said before Scotty, xxxx Naysayers! I don't care whether you've got a degree, or bad credit, or a Big Red One on your shoulder. You're one of the best friends I guy could have or hope for, and I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. xxxx the rest.

I don't hold it against Beauchamp that he hit some tough spots in life - and if you read his various blog entries and comments, there's reason to think that's precisely what the deal is, what I regret is that instead of looking at his military experience to build character and actually accomplish something, he was just trying to punch a ticket, already envisioning how to capitalize on it, instead of trying to grow up.

Liberals will say the military took advantage of Beauchamp, they won't stop to question that actually it's The New Republic that has done that very thing. From his writing, Beauchamp's passion is fiction. Will there be some truth to his diaries? I would imagine, but it won't be close to a journalist's truth. It'll be the truth of a, in a word, loser, who passed up an opportunity to become a winner for what he saw as a shortcut to the big time. And Franklin Foer, an Editor who now looks just as much, if not more, of a loser than is Beauchamp, simply wasn't going to pass up his opportunity. Now was he?

Meanwhile a vast majority of our long suffering military members and their families will continue to hack it out in the real world, where not everything is perfect, or just the right narrative, but things get done and often well, despite having to drag along the Beauchamps of the world - individuals usually pre-occupied with just one simple question: what's in it for me, and how quick can I get it? Sorry, Private Beauchamp, you certainly haven't gotten it, yet. I hope one day you just might.

But take heart, for now you are liberal gold - a victim, you see. Just don't try to run against any liberal Democrats as is Cindy Sheehan, or you might get thrown under that bus you were apparently so desperate to catch.

Comments

[nowingker]

Congratulations Dan,

You are every day reaching new heights of utter irrelevancy, even your small coterie of fans hardly post anymore.

I feel a polar bear bashing post coming on any day now.

[Kaitain]

I disagree nowingker. I read Riehl's all the time. Go sod the hell off.

[charles]

,,,,,swampy

finished it for you Kaitain ;]

[Capitalist Infidel]

He had a perfect role model in Jon Carry. He figures he's ready to run for president now.

[bloodrage bob]

beauchamp is the asswipe who - with his dear fiance's help, it seems clear - who wrote that iraqi police use glocks that shoot (miraculously) "square bullets". which is just as stupid (and impossible) as if he (and she) had written they were "also using ray guns!"

naturalyyy, loogk who's rushing in to defend these obvious lies. didn't we already go through this with the idiot leftoids swearing to back "army ranger" jessie mcbeath all the way? right up to the moment it was *proven* that every word mcbeath wrote was ALSO a lie?

[memomachine]

Hmmmm.

Actually Thomas described the 9mm shell casings fired by Glocks as "square backed". Which is a very curious way of describing the indentation made on the primer by the square firing pin that Glocks use.

[Lala]

I read what Dan Riehl writes every day.

[Observer]

Well I see we have the requisite trollish behavior throwing words out to disrupt the narrative with little content to back up the false premise.