Journal GMontag's Journal: How Shameless can The New Republic Possibly be? 2
Stay tuned for the long "wrap up" post. Don't look for links in this one (just back from happy hour), but feel free to google this to death.
Point the firstest: PV2 Beauchamp is a moron and a liar. Moron first, he can't even change the oil on a Bradley Fighting Vehicle (check out his journal), so he takes the word of a Bradley driver's tall tales as truth. Perhaps that is 'tall tails' when the Bradley driver talks about running over sleeping dogs. Taller when he talks about running over concrete barriers and busting through buildings with one. If this story was told to PV2 Beauchamp, then he is an idiot for believing them.
Point the second: Cathy Young at Reason makes short work on the "James Bond" story. If your kid got their tounge cut out for talking to Americans would you let him play with Americans a few weeks later?
Point the third, the big one, the incident that turned this guy into a "monster" was his seeing a woman with a "half melted face", every single day, in the "mess hall" (do Privates really call dining facilities "mess halls" these days?). This war experience so scarred him that he wondered if he were a "monster" of some sort. Only problem there, it happened (if at all) in Kuwait, before he saw "war", according to TNR's investigation.
The defense by TNR?
First they conducted their own "invistigation" with no power of incarceration adn everybody that PV2 (second award) fed them somehow agreed with him. So, according to TNR, everything 'checks out'.
But wait, there was an Army investigation too. Details still confidential, but the conclusion that the PAO has e-mailed to several news organizations, is that PV2 Beauchamp fabricated every story published to his name. TNR, of course, ignores this and attacks The Weekly Standard for mentioning an anonymous inside source who gave added "color" to their piece.
TNR laments that their 'reporter' had his electronic communications gear taken away. Um, guys and gals, the man had already devulged troop movements and schedules on his own 'blog (the one you should have read before hiring him) and he was in the middle of an investigation for UNAUTHORIZED COMMUNICATION OF MILITARY ACTIVITY IN A WAR ZONE. Oh, sorry about the caps, TNR already knows about OPSEC as they fired a staffer for confirming that he is married to Elspeth Reeve of TNR.
All the while, the left is going after that Sanches guy because he is, apparently, the only man on earth who ever engaged in homosexual activity who should (according to them) be banned from military service!
The worst thing about this whole deal is that PV2 Beauchamp's wife, Elspeth Reeve, is a fine and, apparently, honest writer. Her husband, his slimey editor and TNR have done more to ruin her reputation than she could possibly do herself.
More on this very soon.
thanks (Score:2)
Kickin' it old-school (Score:2)
Far be it from me to defend this scumbag...but if he's a "brat," maybe. I've always referred to the Security Forces [wikipedia.org] as "sky cops" because that's what my parents and grandparents have always called them for as long as I can remember. (It's a bastardization of "Air Police," which is what they called themselves until some time in the 60s or so.)
OTOH, if he is a brat, you'd think he would've been brought up right and would know better than