Drudging Up The Muck On TNR

UPDATE: The document links on Drudge are dead (AllahPundit has extensive screen caps, though.). The Corner has a post up quoting a TNR editor as saying the evidence is "not as damning" as Drudge claims. Meanwhile, Franklin Foer's biography is missing from TNR and searches are not working (may be a technical glitch):

http://www.tnr.com/showBio.mhtml?pid=50&sa=1

What does it all mean? Haven't a clue.

Matt Drudge has PDF copies of documents that prove The New Republic and editor Franklin Foer have known - conclusively - that Scott Thomas Beauchamp flat out refused to stand by his own story. They have known since September 7th. Drudge also has copies of the official investigations that prove Beauchamp made all of the stories up in order to present himself as the next Hemingway.

THE NEW REPUBLIC has been standing behind the stories from their Baghdad Diarist, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, since questions were first raised about their accuracy over the summer. On August 10, the editors at TNR accused the Army of "stonewalling" their investigation into the stories by preventing them from speaking with Beauchamp. The DRUDGE REPORT has since obtained the transcript of a September 7 call between TNR editor Frank Foer, TNR executive editor Peter Scoblic, and Private Beauchamp. During the call, Beauchamp declines to stand by his stories, telling his editors that "I just want it to end. I'm not going to talk to anyone about anything really." The editors respond that "we just can't, in good conscience, continue to defend the piece" without an explanation, but Beauchamp responds only that he "doesn't care what the public thinks." The editors then ask Beauchamp to cancel scheduled interviews with the WASHINGTON POST and NEWSWEEK.

Read the entire transcript. It is actually worse than Drudge makes it sound. Foer and Peter Scoblic make it quite clear that they know they have a problem and that they should retract the stories. They knew that on September 7th.

They still have not done so.

Others already savaging TNR (the list WILL grow): Instapundit, Power Line, Captain's Quarters, Little Green Footballs, Confederate Yankee, Neocon News, A Blog For All, Hot Air, Bookworm Room, Macsmind, Wizbang, mediabistro.com, Dean's World, Sister Toldjah, BitsBlog, The American Mind, Riehl World View, Flopping Aces, Ace of Spades HQ, protein wisdom, LGF, The Nose On Your Face, BLACKFIVE, Wake up America, Redstate, Take Our Country Back,  Gina Cobb, Suitably Flip, Gates of Vienna, Jim Rose,

Other Links to this Post

1. Neocon News » Total collapse of the bogus 'Shock Troops' story and Scotty Beauchamp — Wednesday, 24 October , 2007 @ 4:12 pm

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