News – Baghdad diarist admits he’s a phony
Ace has been following this for over a week now. Do scroll down and read what Ace had been keeping up with on this ignorant prick Beauchamp. He and his readers had suspected the guy to be a phony from the start, but TNR just wouldn’t admit that they had been printing garbage. Good to see that the truth finally came out in the end.
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.
A “smidgen” you say? As it turns out only about 2% of those stories were actually factual and none of it had to do with any of the false atrocities that Beauchamp was writing about. About the only thing in the TNR story that was accurate was that Beauchamp was, in fact, a soldier. All that other “shock troop” stuff that he was writing? complete and utter bull.
The real kicker? The New Republic wasn’t even really checking up on the story to see if it was accurate. They were just printing up garbage that could hopefully be used as hit pieces against the American military and the War in Iraq. Turns out the little prick was just making it all up.
Court marshal and being disavowed is too lenient of a punishment. Not sure if this falls under treason, and I doubt it does, but to have a soldier speaking out falsely against his own country and military? I think jail time is in order.
HotAir has the video up here.
Man i’m glad to see this moron and that garbage magazine get it handed to them.
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