Jeff Emanuel: The New TNR War Blogger
Well, He Would Be If They Wanted Credibility
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Don't hold your breath for that to come true, but you should read Jeff's column at Human Events today.
Scott Thomas Beauchamp has been outed -- both as the Baghdad Diarist, and as a very, very poor excuse for an American serviceman. (His personal blog includes such statements as “My goal is to become an incompetent leader that gets fragged by 30 something NCO's at a forward operating base in Sadr City”). In him, though, TNR found their “real soldier” whistleblower -- one who would tell tales of atrocities, and who would reinforce their conception of who and what an average American soldier was.Beauchamp’s identity has been confirmed; at least that part of his series of claims was true. But many questions remain about the veracity of his stories. If TNR is as serious about verifying his claims (this time) as they say, then I would like to offer my services to the publication. I will be at FOB Falcon this September, working with the 4th IBCT, under which Beauchamp’s unit falls. While I am there, I'd be more than happy to do whatever investigative work is necessary to either corroborate or debunk the stories and provided to you by Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Given the Stephen Glass episode of years past -- and the speed with which questions were raised about this episode -- I would say that your credibility could definitely use the boost of an outside source working to verify this for you.
As you probably know, Jeff is headed back to Iraq. He's gotten a host of embed invites and intends to spend about a month two months there reporting on the war.
If you haven't, please consider hitting up his tip jar.
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Don't let any of TNR's slime rub off on you Jeff, dirt can be infectious. On the other hand maybe some of your reporting will rub off on TNR, they could use a reporter.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
...you'll see that this is a would-be professional writer that can't leave his prose unembellished, or his readers unprovoked. He wants to move you, much more than educate you.