[Dean's World] Dave Price: TNR "Scott Thomas" Admits Fabrication, Army Finds No Corroboration

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Posted by Dave Price:
TNR "Scott Thomas" Admits Fabrication, Army Finds No Corroboration
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1186452777.shtml


   Apologies to DW readers, I've been remiss on updating this due to
   other obligations. Fortunately, Ace and Hotair have been all over it.
   The major developments have been: TNR issued a correction saying the
   incident wherein Scott and his buddies mocked a disfigured woman
   actually happened in Kuwait, the Kuwaiti base public affairs officer
   said that the incident was a "myth or urban legend," and the Army's
   investigation of the other allegations found them to have no basis.
   Now, TNR has tried to play off the "oops, Kuwait not Iraq" problem as
   no big deal, but [1]as Ace notes when you read the piece it's pretty
   clear that admission utterly destroys Beauchamp's credibility, because
   much like John Forbes Kerry claiming his secret Christmas in Cambodia
   mission was "seared, seared" into his memory, Scott Thomas Beauchamp
   frames the entire incident around his supposedly becoming callous
   because of the horrible dehumanizing war -- a war which he hadn't been
   in the same country with, at that point. And, if that weren't enough,
   the Kuwaiti base PAO says it never happened there either.
   More later, hopefully. In another highly entertaining leftist
   delusion, the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy gag involving the
   threat "You'll have a national philsopher's strike on your hands!" has
   come horribly true.
   Life imitates art, but it's funnier when life imitates parody.
   UPDATE: As I'm writing this, [2]Glenn has an update saying Beauchamp
   has fully recanted in a sworn statement. Wow. Amazing, if true.
   I was going to add links to a lot of stuff above, but it seems fairly
   pointless now.

References

   1. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/236191.php
   2. http://instapundit.com/archives2/007905.php