Today's Fresh Blogs...

• New Republic Freelancer Recants Tales

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:16 am

  Tags: Iraq, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, New Republic, Journalistic Issues

  we haven't seen this before: Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a writer for the New Republic, has recanted his tales of American military savagery according to the Weekly Standard (h/t Powerline): The Weekly Standard has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed "Shock

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• New Republic Refuses to Retract Thomas 'Reports'

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Military, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Media Scandals, New Republic, Journalistic Issues

  involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account," Foer said. The magazine granted anonymity to the other soldiers it cited. And also at WaPo: Foer said the New Republic had asked Maj. Steven Lamb, an Army spokesman, about the allegation that Beauchamp had recanted his articles in a sworn

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Beauchamp Chronicles Tell More of Leftist Dishonesty Than Anything Else

  Published: August 11, 2007, 1:56 am

  Tags: Iraq, Military, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, New Republic

  sums up the New Republic Scott Thomas Beauchamp scandal quite well: For a month, the veracity of The New Republic's Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the Army private who has been sending dispatches from the front in Iraq, has been in dispute. His latest Baghdad Diarist (July 13) recounted three incidents of American soldiers engaged in acts of

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Eli Lake on the Beauchamp Affair

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:19 am

  Tags: Subscriptions, Baghdad Diarist, Charlie Rose Show, Eli Lake, Franklin Foer Leon Weseltier, Iraq War, Martin Peretz, Michael Crowley, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Tnr

  peretz, michael crowley, scott thomas beauchamp, Subscriptions, tnrbaghdad diarist charlie rose show eli lake franklin foer leon weseltier iraq war martin peretz michael crowley scott thomas beauchamp Subscriptions tnr baghdad diarist, charlie rose show, eli lake, franklin foer leon weseltier, iraq war, martin peretz, michael crowley, scott

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Tiny Ideological Bang

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:48 am

  Tags: Military, Subscriptions, Baghdad Diarist, Blogosphere, Blogswarm, Books Movies Media, Franklin Foer, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Tnr, Usa

  to Michael Goldfarb, Private Beauchamp has recanted. According to the military source, Beauchamp’s recantation was volunteered on the first day of the military’s investigation. So as Beauchamp was in Iraq signing an affidavit denying the truth of his stories, the New Republic was publishing a statement from him on its website on July

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Journalistic Babysitter Needed for The New Republic?

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Scott Johnson, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, New Republic, Blogs, Journalistic Issues

  of the magazine's continuing Beauchamp disgrace. When are "the editors" going to render their verdict on their Baghdad Fabulist, anyway? The lack of adult supervision at the magazine is apparent beyond the Beauchamp disgrace. Here the juvenile TNR staffer Joshua Patashnik does little more than direct sarcasm at the New York Times's

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• High Noon for TNR

  Published: September 10, 2007, 11:54 am

  Tags: Iraq, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, New Republic

  We know that the events Beauchamp wrote about in "Shock Troops" were fabrications, and that has become something of a non-story at this point. Now, what has become a far more important story is the devious means by which the editorial staff of The New Republic has sought to cover-up their own inadequacies. If they had simply

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Rush Limbaugh, phony soldiers, and the Left's desperate need for its own Betray Us moment

  Published: September 30, 2007, 8:24 pm

  Tags: Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Rush Limbaugh, They Don T Support The Troops, Jessie Macbeth

  So, word is that the Democrats will introduce a House resolution Monday condemning Rush Limbaugh for his remarks about phony soldiers. […] Read the rest »

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Snorting at The New Republic

  Published: October 2, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Scott Thomas Beauchamp

  Read this post »

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Snorting at The New Republic, take two: Scott Thomas Beauchamp is not incommunicado

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:05 am

  Tags: Scott Thomas Beauchamp

  Read this post »

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Shattered Credibility at TNR: Liberal Mag Didn't Learn From Glass Scandal

  Published: October 22, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Anti Iraq War Bias, Iraq, Military, Ed Morrissey, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Media Scandals, Online Media, Captain Amp 039 S Quarters, Fake News, The New Republic, Blogs

  reporting at the hands of Scott Thomas Beauchamp. "I couldn't help but be struck by the similarities and differences at The New Republic, then and now," blogger Ed Morrissey wrote after viewing the 2003 film "Shattered Glass," based on the rise and fall of New Republic writer Stephen Glass. What's most damning, Morrissey

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Drudge: The Beauchamp transcripts; Foer to Beauchamp: Let us control the way this story proceeds; Foer exploits Beauchamp's wife: Ellie sent me an e-mail to tell you that it's the most important thing in the world for her that you say that yo

  Published: October 24, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Scott Thomas Beauchamp

  Update 2:51pm Eastern. […] Read the rest »

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Boom: Drudge Scoops Docs to Sink New Republic

  Published: October 24, 2007, 3:24 pm

  Tags: Anti Military Bias, Iraq, Media Bias Debate, Military, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Media Scandals, Online Media, Adnan Hajj Reutergate, New Republic, Magazines, Blogs

  two documents related to the Beauchamp/TNR story. I had asked for in a FOIA request submitted more than a month ago to the U.S. Army. Those documents including a transcript of the call between Scott Beauchamp, TNR editor Franklin Foer, and TNR executive editor Peter Scoblic on September 7. I first wrote about the conversation itself previously.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• TNR's Foer Sticks by Beauchamp, Who Won't Defend His Writing Publicly

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:06 pm

  Tags: Anti Military Bias, Iraq, Media Bias Debate, Military, Franklin Foer, Howard Kurtz, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Media Scandals, Fake News, New Republic, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues

  the writer, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, said from Iraq that the controversy had "spun out of control" and had become "insane" and "ridiculous" and concluded: "I'm not going to talk to anyone about anything." Beauchamp stood his ground even after Editor Franklin Foer told him "that if

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Beauchamp alert: The New Republic comes out from under its desk

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Scott Thomas Beauchamp

  Finally, TNR’s editors get around to addressing the latest Beauchamp mess. […] Read the rest »

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0