[Dean's World] Dave Price: TNR Fires Employee Over "Scott Thomas" Incident

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Posted by Dave Price:
TNR Fires Employee Over "Scott Thomas" Incident
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1185494315.shtml


   No, not because of Scott's apparent foray into antiwar fiction, but
   because the employee [1]leaked the very-embarassing-to-TNR fact that
   [2]Scott Thomas Beauchamp got the job because his wife works at TNR.
   And the author himself, who had ascribed various atrocities,
   cruelties, and generally psychopathic behavior to his fellow soldiers
   and himself, now worries the people questioning his story might be
   [3]impugning his and his fellow soldiers' character.
   You just can't make this stuff up.
   Now that he's been identified, it's going to be pretty simple to just
   ask the guys he served with whether any of that stuff happened. And
   the military may investigate, because some of what he described was
   criminal. The truth is going to come out, which is how it should be. I
   respect his decision to serve his country, but that doesn't give him a
   free pass to falsely claim American soldiers are committing
   atrocities, any more than it did John Kerry thirty-some years ago.
   Anyways, in the end he'll write a book about the whole thing, with a
   suitably ironic title (sadly "The Politics of Truth" is already
   taken), and lots of lefties will buy it.

References

   1. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/234925.php
   2. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/234919.php
   3. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDc4MjY2YjI2NWQ2OTNiODA3ZTgxMDQzNDhiOGFmMTE=