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Posted by Mike 2007-08-08 08:02|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 "Gifted writer?"
Excuse me, while I roll all over the floor, laughing my **s off.
Beachy-Boy's only gift was in being married to a TNR staff member. TNR could have found better soldier-writers in Iraq by skimming through the links at Mudville Gazette... but no, they had to take the lazy way out, and go for a dumb**s wanna-be who couldn't even accuratly observe the world around him.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-08-08 09:03|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com] 2007-08-08 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 And John Cole somehow winds up "now, more than ever, convinced that a certain segment of the Republican party and the right wing blogosphere is certifiably insane."

So that little turd is somehow the fault of the Republicans and Right Wing Bloggers?
I'm not following this guy at all.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-08-08 09:31|| 2007-08-08 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 HEY TNR Michael Yon has been reporting from Iraq as diary for a couple of years, why not publish him? I still like to imagine all the cool things the 1st shirt is making PvT-E1 Beauchamp do to keep him busy and on the recieving end of a blanket party. Flush the turd.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-08-08 10:53|| 2007-08-08 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 "Gifted writer?"

Oh. My. God. I didn't see that the first time through. It surprises me not at all that some bozo fantasizes about the crazed killin' he's seen in his time with the Third Weed 'n Feed Division (Beauchamp was on landscaping detail while in Germany), nor that some gullible editor swallowed it whole and excreted it into his magazine. What does surprise me (though perhaps it shouldn't) is that you can pass through an MFA program and still write as wretchedly as Beauchamp.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-08-08 11:01|| 2007-08-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 The MFA types gravitate toward "literary fiction," which is a term of art meaning "unappealing and pretentious nonsense written by English professors for other English professors"; see also, e.g., James Joyce, Ulysses (world's longest run-on sentence). Beauchamp's right at home in that league.

Posted by Mike 2007-08-08 11:18|| 2007-08-08 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Many years ago, there lived an emperor who was quite an average fairy tale ruler, with one exception: he cared much about his clothes. One day he heard from two swindlers named Guido and Luigi Farabutto that they could make the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they said, also had the special capability that it was invisible to anyone who was either stupid or not fit for his position.

Being a bit nervous about whether he himself would be able to see the cloth, the emperor first sent two of his trusted men to see it. Of course, neither would admit that they could not see the cloth and so praised it. All the townspeople had also heard of the cloth and were interested to learn how stupid their neighbors were.

The emperor then allowed himself to be dressed in the clothes for a procession through town, never admitting that he was too unfit and stupid to see what he was wearing. He was afraid that the other people would think that he was stupid.

Of course, all the townspeople wildly praised the magnificent clothes of the emperor, afraid to admit that they could not see them, until a small child said:

"But he has nothing on!"

This was whispered from person to person until everyone in the crowd was shouting that the emperor had nothing on. The emperor heard it and felt that they were correct, but held his head high and finished the procession.*

And John Cole walked over and smacked the child while screaming into his face - "It's the narrative that important, not the facts you little neo-con reactionary."

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-08-08 12:39|| 2007-08-08 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 TNR believed it because they wanted to believe it. They still believe it.
Could be why they constantly get taken by these bullshit artists. It's easy...and they're still in business.

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-08 12:43|| 2007-08-08 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds suspiciously like a Weekly World News wannabe writer, has all the credentials, no morals, only a passing glane at any truth, and chutzhpah in abundance, plus a ready whine when caught.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-08-08 17:38|| 2007-08-08 17:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Some journalists see in Glass the dark side of a new magazine journalism that puts a premium on sensationalism and style....

Style has been giving substance a drubbing for many years now. How else could halfwits like Whitney Houston and Michael Bolton ascend to such heights were it not for average Americans having the attention span of a fruit fly?

The horror of it is how ethics and integrity are now being treated with the same undisguised flexibility that questionable taste so often enjoys.

Posted by Zenster 2007-08-08 22:40|| 2007-08-08 22:40|| Front Page Top

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