Beauchamp: The Saga Continues
We have documentation of a conversation that took place between editors of The New Republic and Scott Beauchamp. In those transcripts we know the soldier writer no longer wanted to defend himself. He wanted to put the whole issue of fake Iraq stories behind him and concentrate on his soldiering.
Now, we have word from TNR editor-in-chief Franklin Foer claiming that a few weeks after that interview Beauchamp called him and stood behind his dispatches.
Ok, maybe that’s true and maybe it isn’t. But this doesn’t address the factual weaknesses. Nor does it explain why TNR only bothered to tell us about these discussion after they were posted on the Drudge Report.
Foer and the gang must really love shovels; they can’t stop digging.
“TNR: Beauchamp Called Us Without the Army Goons Around and Stood by Everything”
It’s not clear which stories are supposedly fake.