Two more entries regarding TNR's Scott Thomas... 'situation' is nice and bloodless, no? [Updated and Bumped]
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[UPDATE]: It's like being a bird hypnotized by a snake: I should look away, but I can't. Two more items, one surreal:
One Three: Ace notes that apparently the reason why Pvt Beauchamp got the gig is because he's either married to or about to be married to TNR staffer Elspeth Reeve. The name "Plame" was used ah, liberally, in Ace's commentary thereof. Ace is not thrilled overall, partially because this makes things even more sordid and partially because TNR canned another staffer that was one of Ace's contacts on this issue. Yeah, go figure.
Two Four: This is the surreal one. Elspeth Reeve? Probably not too beloved of the progressives. She had the bad taste to write an actual defense of Ann Coulter. Just to increase the need for a scorecard.
One: I thought that you might like to see some video footage of the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment. Call it... a useful corrective for those of our colleagues who have difficulty distinguishing soldiers from the Other.
Two: Jeff's got his own take on this issue, and makes an offer. Which probably won't be taken up on, mind you.
There was a scandal in the German press about German troops playing around with bones from a mass grave in Afghanistan (and taking disgusting photos, like an army beret placed on a skull, or the bones spelling out words, etc.) at the same time that Scott Thomas Beauchamp was stationed in Germany. (h/t Michelle Malkin commenter) Is that where Beauchamp got the idea? Because he doesn't seem to have been anyplace in Iraq where there's a record of mass graves uncovered, at a time when he was there to see it.
i predict it won't be long before he comes out and says he didn't actually witness the events he described first hand, but had been told of these events by others, or he read about them from other credible sources.
that these people consider themselves to be our intellectual superiors and our moral compass. And everything about this entire affair has been so ham-handedly stupid, so crassly morally bankrupt that the mind boggles. And the ones who are most truly affected by it are our soldiers, the ones who have enough on their plates already. Well, their satisfaction should be served up shortly. My deepest hope is that whatever retribution this young man gets, he gets it right out in public. The same holds at least doubly true for Foer and his despicable TNR.