Day two since the illegal release of documents, and several things are clear: 1.) The alleged recanting in the testimony released yesterday is no such thing. At no point does Beauchamp recant, and at no point does it sink through the thick skulls of the blogospheric right that when someone is being monitered by a …
More Beauchamp
How exciting! Via Kevin Drum, the story that never mattered but was the biggest thing since Dan Rather in Greater Wingnuttia is back, and apparently Franklin Foer is worse than Hitler. Or something. I would tell you what I thought of the leaked documents if the links at Drudge worked. From Kevin’s snippet, it appears …
BEAUCHAMP and the Weimar Republicans
Excellent piece by Jonathon Chait on the increasingly unstable folks at the Weekly Standard: First, there is Kristol’s curious premise that tnr only published this essay because we have “turned against” the war. If Beauchamp’s writings were tnr’s attempt to discredit the war, why would his first contribution describe a pro-American Iraqi boy savagely mutilated …
Screw The War As We Saw It- WHAT ABOUT BEAUCHAMP?
As predicted, the usual suspects completely ignored the op-ed by the 82nd Airborne NCO’s in the NY Times, but are having another link orgy regarding Beauchamp. Well, that is not completely true. Hot Air had this to say about the op-ed: Oh well. The Times had to make amends to the left for that O’Hanlon …
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The Daily Beauchamp Comes To An End
I have a full day tomorrow and won’t be able to blog, so I better get this in before I am accused of avoiding the controversy. Via the Memeorandum, the Weekly Standard is reporting that Beauchamp recanted and has signed a statement recanting: THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the …
A Beauchamp Review
From Cathy Young. Which, of course, means it is reasonable and doesn’t have any name calling, dripping sarcasm, and bitter ad hominem attacks, and as such probably doesn’t even count as blogging. Still worth reading, though.
Your Daily Beauchamp
Sully: Barnett calls the TNR statement “maddening”. If you’re wedded to the belief that the stories were fabricated, then it must be. It’s no fun to have accused a writer and his editors of wilfull malfeasance only to discover you have no real basis for it, except your own insecurities and hatreds. If, on the …