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| #8 I like this comment: Looks like Beauchamp gave TNR a shovel and they eagerly continue to dig their own grave. And why shouldn't they keep digging? Their reputation is already dead. Best they can do know is to throw dirt on top of it to keep the stink down. |
| Posted by: Cravins Untervehr8884 2007-08-20 14:40 |
| #7 As Tom Clancy puts it: "Substandard government-provided housing with substandard government-provided roommates." |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-20 14:04 |
| #6 I'm still rooting for Pvt. Beauchamp. Rooting for him to become a resident of Kansas for the next 5-20 years. That is, on the federal reservation there. And I don't mean Fort Riley, either. Though I gather he's only going to get NJP. Well, here's to hoping that they flag his ETS for a few years. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-08-20 14:02 |
| #5 I'm still rooting for Pvt. Beauchamp. Rooting for him to become a resident of Kansas for the next 5-20 years. That is, on the federal reservation there. And I don't mean Fort Riley, either. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-08-20 14:01 |
| #4 "Nothing in this world is quite so exhilarating as to be shot at without effect." -- Winston Churchill, Boer War correspondent |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-08-20 13:24 |
| #3 What Foer did not tell McGee was that Beauchamp was married to Elspeth Reeve, one of the magazine’s three fact-checkers (a point that the press missed too). So Beauchamp was effectively an insider—and would get treated as such. Sorta just screams "conflict of interest", doesn't it? And, why was the whistle-blower the only New Republic staffer to be fired? An organization so unconcerned with facts certainly won't let such a trivial and niggling thing like ethics interfere with protecting their own interests. It is odd that McGee has been the only one fired over the Beauchamp scandal. Wouldn’t Foer be a likely candidate? Or the fact-checkers who failed to do their duty? Or Elspeth for knowingly bringing Beauchamp into its respected pages? In a sane world, McGee should be the only one still at his job. Here's hoping that The New Republic's circulation takes a nosedive. What a bunch of tossers. Too bad they can't have the crap sued out of them over this. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-20 13:23 |
#2 Interesting, too, that not everyone at TNR was taken in:The Monday after the party, at the magazineÂ’s offices, Foer was locked in a long serious conversation with Leon Wieseltier, the bear-shaped intellectual who has run the magazineÂ’s literary section with distinction since 1983. They were talking about Beauchamp. Foer couldnÂ’t understand why anyone would just make things up. Also interesting that the only person at TNR who got fired over the incident is the guy who leaked some of the gory details to conservative blogs. As soon as TNR canned him, the Huffasnuffaluffagus Post attacked the poor fellow for being gay. (Love that liberal tolerance and inclusiveness!) As for Beauchamp's German girlfriend, the one he dumped so he could marry in to the TNR family, she now knows that strangely exhilarating feeling that comes from narrowly escaping disaster. |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-08-20 13:00 |
| #1 He joined the Army for the same reason John Kerry joined the Navy - Resume stuffing. And he is doing exactly what Kerry later did. He will become the left's poster boy of ex-army goes over to the anti-war side. He may even end up being adopted by Mother Sheheen as a replacement son. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-08-20 12:29 |