Comments on: Drudge: Leaked documents prove TNR’s Beauchamp story has collapsed? Update: Drudge pulls documents? Update: TNR preparing to torpedo Drudge? Update: TNR editor doesn’t dispute accuracy of docs

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » TNR: We can no longer stand by Beauchamp’s stories

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:23:35 +0000

[...] 12 Beauchamp claims he was under duress, with two army officers in the room with him, during the phone conversation he had with TNR that was leaked to Drudge in October. On the top of the same page, TNR calls shenanigans on the [...]

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By: Rugged Individual

Rugged Individual — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:12:35 +0000

Ahhh…, the schadenfreude… It’s almost, er…, orgasmic. :)

By: BizzyBlog » Couldn’t Help But Notice (102507)

BizzyBlog » Couldn’t Help But Notice (102507) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:33:37 +0000

[...] Ace, Confederate Yankee, and, and….. Matt Drudge (link to the text of docs leaked to him is here; Drudge took down the original link yesterday). Interesting — Drudge despises the term [...]

By: Texas Rainmaker » Another Battlefield Loss in Their War on the Military

Texas Rainmaker » Another Battlefield Loss in Their War on the Military — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:01:28 +0000

[...] to make matters worse, the liberal rag that published this garbage has been trying to cover up the big lie ever since they realized the world would find out. And they’re pissed off the [...]

By: The Waterglass » “I didn’t do anything wrong, Frank!”

The Waterglass » “I didn’t do anything wrong, Frank!” — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:17:25 +0000

[...] The TNR Beauchamp Follies continue. [...]

By: Is this the Final Chapter of the Beauchamp Saga? at Forward Deployed

Is this the Final Chapter of the Beauchamp Saga? at Forward Deployed — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:49:12 +0000

[...] below that have covered this topic in far greater detail than I have:Michelle MalkinJawa ReportHot AirCaptain’s QuartersInstapunditSlateBlackfiveThe Weekly StandardAce of SpadesConfederate [...]

By: Ethics, Journalism, Fact Checking and TNR « The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Ethics, Journalism, Fact Checking and TNR « The Van Der Galiën Gazette — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:38:47 +0000

[...] however, Hot Air has more information about the transcripts. They read, as Allahpundit points out, like a thriller. Foer tried to get [...]

By: Mainstream Media Dishonesty - 101 Liberal Media Lies « BUUUUURRRRNING HOT

Mainstream Media Dishonesty - 101 Liberal Media Lies « BUUUUURRRRNING HOT — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:13:40 +0000

[...] false, and if not, constitute military crimes on his part. [Wikipedia: Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Hot Air covers Beauchamp’s talk with his disappointed editors. I’ll illustrate this with a [...]

By: Seixon

Seixon — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:34:24 +0000

Don’t worry Scott, you can always be a writer for Truthout.

By: GINA COBB

GINA COBB — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:28:17 +0000

The New Republic Loses: Game, Set and Match…

It’s confirmed: The Scott Thomas Beauchamp story is hogwash, and The New Republic knows it:The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained internal documents from the investigation of THE NEW REPUBLIC’S Baghdad Diarist, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, an Army private turned …

By: race42008.com » Blog Archive » Race 4 2008 Evening Essential Reads

race42008.com » Blog Archive » Race 4 2008 Evening Essential Reads — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:00:55 +0000

[...] Drudge: Leaked documents prove TNR’s Beauchamp story has collapsed? Update: Drudge pulls documents? Update: TNR preparing to torpedo Drudge? Update: TNR editor doesn’t dispute accuracy of docs [...]

By: CommentGuy

CommentGuy — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:37:07 +0000

New York Observer

TNR’s Foer: Drudge’s Documents Could Have Come Only From the Army

Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic, said in an interview that the documents Matt Drudge posted this afternoon–and removed several hours later without explanation–could have only come from the Army.

Mr. Foer said he called TNR’s contact there, Major Kirk Luedeke, as soon as the documents appeared on Drudge’s Web site. According to Mr. Foer, Major Luedeke told him that the Army was “investigating the source of the leak,” though they did not explicitly take responsibility for it.

“It’s maddening to see the Army selectively leak to the Drudge Report things that we’ve been trying to obtain from them through Freedom of Information Act requests,” Mr. Foer said. “This fits a pattern in this case where the army has leaked a lot of stuff to right wing blogs.”

Mr. Foer said TNR had been trying since July to get access to some of the documents Mr. Drudge posted, but that the Army had not cooperated.

The important point here is he does not dispute the accuracy of the documents and he would be screaming if they were bogus

By: GT

GT — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:59:55 +0000

So, when can we expect TNR’s public and published apology to the men and women serving in Iraq?

By: Lancer

Lancer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:53:30 +0000

How would the wife know? I think it unlikely that STB was sending in his tall tales and then turning around and telling his wife he was lying through his teeth. I suspect he married her as an “in” to the journalism profession (being too lazy to actually earn it) and was no more interested in telling her the truth than he was telling Foer.
Either way, it sounds like the Army gave him one serious if belated wake-up call. The guy doesn’t have the brainpower to look ahead past the next hangover, but it sounds as if he’s not too sure about his ambition to be a writer. For now, anyway.

By: sulla

sulla — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:52:15 +0000

maybe we’re looking at this the wrong way.

STB sacrificed his future writing career to take down an obnoxious set of anti-war journalists in a time of war, in a messy verbal explosion. He was like a human claymore taking out a chunk of the fifth column, luring them into a trap of their own warped percetions.

Give him a medal, I say. “Presidential Medal of Stickin’ It to the Press Weasels” has a nice ring to it. Make it a nice bronze typewriter.

By: Flopping Aces

Flopping Aces — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:25:50 +0000

Scott Thomas Beauchamps Interview With TNR…

Drudge had up the transcript of the phone interview between Scott Beauchamp and TNR’s Foer and Scoblic. It’s since been pulled for reasons that are unknown but many sources are saying its because Drudge called it a confession by Scott,……

By: Dash

Dash — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:21:37 +0000

So we dont know if the wife knew this was BS or not? I think that answer will determine who the real villain is in this story. Beauchamp strikes me as a dopey kid from this interview. He seems just out of touch with reality and very immature.

Whoever was supposed to fact check is the prime jackass in this situation. Followed by those who covered for this obvious nonsense.

However, if the wife knew this was BS she wins the jackass race.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:13:24 +0000

Scott’s upcoming tell-all book title:

“BIG TWO-FACED REIVER”

(A “reiver” being a border raider, since Faulkner, more than Hemingway, indulged in outright fantasia.)

By: This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here » Beauchamp and The New Republic hung by their own petard

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:45:54 +0000

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By: roux

roux — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:44:39 +0000

When he’s out of the military he’ll come back and say they threatened to send him to Gitmo and water board him. He’ll be the toast of the nutroots.

By: Matticus Finch

Matticus Finch — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:39:04 +0000

How can they stand by stories that their own author doesn’t?

Exactly.

By: Media Mythbusters Blog » Blog Archive » Boom: Drudge Scoops Docs to Sink TNR

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:36:23 +0000

[...] always, Allahpundit is on top of the story over at Hot Air, so I’ll send you over there for analysis until I can delve into the story [...]

By: PRCalDude

PRCalDude — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:31:04 +0000

Ace is right, AP, you’re paranoid.

By: Blog-o-Fascists

Blog-o-Fascists — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:30:05 +0000

TNR: Bring Out The Dead…

Riehl World View

Update: Hmm Has Drudge spiked the story?

Did he get played? I doubt it, but wouldn’t be surprised if there were legal issues involved in what he posted. Nomatter what, I see dead people lawyers entering the mix.UPDATE: An editor the…