TNR Out-Glassed By Beauchamp!

Oh, ouch! Ouch ... ouch! Franklin Foer better be sitting down, he may not feel like doing so again for a while. h/t Ace

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 well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns--signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods--fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of our source.

Ouch, again - read it all.

According to the military source, Beauchamp's recantation was volunteered on the first day of the military's investigation.

Headline corrected.

Comments

[Gmax]

So where exactly is nowingker? Probably standing on the ledge. Doesn't he want to come and explain what we poor stupid conservatives dont have the capicity to understand. He was in high dungeon only a couple of days ago, calling anyone who question the Beauchamp account to be at least a "moron" if not worse.

Seems a big bunch of egg on the face and eating crow is in order. Think he will show? Me either.

[bloodrage bob]

ok, show of hands: who DIDN'T see that coming?

(and all the liberals look around at each other sheepishly. "fooled me". "i sure bought it". "it made the US look bad, so i wanted to believe it". "me, too!". then they take a deep breath, square their thin, slender, oddly feminine shoulders and start telling more lies. squealing at the tops of their lungs. "that's not important! what *matters* is why them poor arabs were profiled in south carolina! it's racist to think arabs might be up to no good!")

noyyyinger'll be back. so will the rest of them. "inability to feel shame" is a key component of the sociopath/liberal personality. like all malignant narcissists, they cannot conceive of a world in which they're wrong, about anything, ever. so ... they'll just wipe this incident from their "minds", and go right back to agitating against their own country. watch & see.

[docweasel]

John Cole, over at balloonjuice, after being proved a fool in this matter, calls the righty blogs "hysterics" and the posits that the affair was trivial and blown out of proportion and ridicules the righty blogs methods and focus.

Let's compare the Scott Thomas affair to the conduct of the lefties in the Jeff Gannon affair, where the left, led by gay blogger John Aravistos at Ameriblog, deliberately destroyed the career of a journalist whose politics they didn't like by exposing his personal life. Righties only sought to find the truth about smears by a left wing main stream media magazine whose goal is to undermine the troops and the war, and they did so by examining the facts, not digging into "Scott Thomas' " personal life. Imagine had the right torn him down because he was gay? Hypocrite John Cole.

[docweasel]

John Cole, over at balloonjuice, after being proved a fool in this matter, calls the righty blogs "hysterics" and the posits that the affair was trivial and blown out of proportion and ridicules the righty blogs methods and focus.

Let's compare the Scott Thomas affair to the conduct of the lefties in the Jeff Gannon affair, where the left, led by gay blogger John Aravistos at Ameriblog, deliberately destroyed the career of a journalist whose politics they didn't like by exposing his personal life. Righties only sought to find the truth about smears by a left wing main stream media magazine whose goal is to undermine the troops and the war, and they did so by examining the facts, not digging into "Scott Thomas' " personal life. Imagine had the right torn him down because he was gay? Hypocrite John Cole.

[Lala]

"oddly feminine shoulders"

Classic!

[Fred Beloit]

The noble nowinkie is home counting the bonus riyals she received for her perseverance in combating the Nazi right wing yesterday. She defended these innocent kids (those who eschewed the beaches of Clearwater, close by their housing, and choose the beaches of South Carolina, where it is so infinitely cooler, for their "vacations"). If she does show up, it won't be under this headline, though bloodrage may have a point: "'inability to feel shame' is a key component of the sociopath/liberal personality."

[nowingker]

Hmmm, The Weekly Standard says Beauchamp recanted.

Forgive me if I wait to hear that from an actual military source, and not Bill Kristol or Matt "gay porn movie king" Sanchez.

[templar knight]

nowinkger said tata on one of the other threads, he won't be back until he thinks we have forgotten his sprited defense of a lying POS by the name of Beauchamp. However, I'm going to remember for quite some time.

[templar knight]

Well, well, he did show up. Looks like your boy is a lying POS, just like I said, winkie, and wait all you want, the outcome is going to be the same. How does that crow taste?

[seekeronos]

Seems Nowinkie can't think about eating crow - so he pulled out the "OMG!!1! Matt Sanchez is teh ghey!!" card.

[Fred Beloit]

We made yyy go away. Maybe we can make nowinkie p--s vinegar into her gutter until she goes away too, even if it is only to another of her many monikers. Get those thighs loosened up and ready to squat winkie, you have disgraced yourself. Shame on you.

[IslamoLlama]

I think it was the test-model of the tank in the sandbox that did him in. Now we can all sleep easy knowing that under threat of court marshal, Beauchamp has come clean. This proves that the War On Terror is an absolute success, and soldiers never do un-nice things. It also casts a serious pale over all that Abu Garab reporting, because, seriously, who are you going to believe?

And let us not forget the most important thing. With wingtopia's groundbreaking reporting, the terrorists have been defeated. Now, quickly my Army of Davids, find those WMDs.

[Phoenix]

Square those slender, oddly feminine shoulders when you speak like that ISLAMO LLAMA! Or milk yourself. Whatever. What a stupid name.

ha ha,

[Fred Beloit]

Oh, P, my fellow American, that was so very good in just a few words.