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Friday/Weekend open thread

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on July 27, 2007 at 3:53 pm

I shall be back later tonight, ya’ll. TGIF :)

Sat AM Update: I’ll be involved in a painting project at mom and dad’s for most of the day and will be away from the blog for most, if not all of it. If I’m not too tired, I’ll check in later this evening.

This is “prep the room for painting” day, which will include peeling off wallpaper, cleaning the windowsills, taking down the blinds and curtain, Kilzing the room … dad has the really fun job of scraping some of the paint that is chipping and cracking off the ceiling, so that part of the day should be fuuuuun. Not! LOL. Next Saturday is when we will actually be doing the painting. I anticipate a good looking, updated bathroom, complete with a sore back and sore shoulders … LOL.

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    1. Great White Rat says:
      July 28, 2007 at 10:26 am

      The New Republic / Scott Thomas Beauchamp kerfuffle gets even stranger: WaPo story

      Try this line on, for starters.

      The magazine’s editor, Franklin Foer, disclosed in an interview that Beauchamp is married to a New Republic staffer, and that is “part of the reason why we found him to be a credible writer.”

      So anyone who’s married to a TNR staffer automatically gets credibility as a writer? Interesting qualifications. I wonder, does just shacking up count, or does there have to be a ring and a ceremony before you become a writer? How about a one-night stand with a staffer – would that get me a quarterly column?

      Foer also said Beauchamp “has put himself in significant jeopardy” and “lost his lifeline to the rest of the world” because military officials have taken away his laptop, cellphone and e-mail privileges.

      Foer has no grasp on what “significant jeopardy” is. The troops who are on the front lines taking on AQ and the Taliban are in significant jeopardy. Not some clown whose can no longer slither off to his laptop and malign his colleagues. He’s just John Kerry with a keyboard.

      Beauchamp did not provide any documentation for his three published columns.

      Well, there’s a surprise. Color me shocked.

      Foer said the magazine is attempting to confirm every detail. “We are trying to be as deliberate and meticulous as we possibly can,” he said. “We’re not going to be rushed into making any sort of snap judgment.”

      In other words, TNR’s standard is to publish first, and then – if someone catches you circulating drivel – you go back and try to verify it. Clearly, Foer graduated with honors from the Dan Rather Fake-But-Accurate Correspondence School of Journalism. Publish first, then fact-check.

      As long as the subject matter fits the agenda, of course. But you’ll notice that when the military commanders release a statement about a successful operation with high enemy casualties, the same MSM operatives become skeptics and demand volumes of supporting documentation.

      Foer said: “It is really unfortunate that someone like Scott, who was really only trying to tell his particular story, has become a pawn in the debate over the war and the Weekly Standard’s efforts to press an ideological agenda.”

      Actually, Foer, it was started by your efforts to press an ideological agenda by publishing unsupported claims from a source whose primary bona fides were that he’s hitched to one of your underlings. Consider any credibility you or your rag had to be permanently foreited.

    2. G-Monster says:
      July 28, 2007 at 2:34 pm

      GWR…it gets even stranger…

      Here is a bio for Elspeth Reeve at The New Republic:

      Elspeth Reeve is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic.

      LINK 1

      Here is an article Elspeth Reeve wrote for the missourian in sep 27, 2004, where she quotes Beauchamp:

      “Glenn is completely submerged in politics on campus. It is honestly impossible to think about politics at MU without thinking of Glenn” says Scott Beauchamp, editor-in-chief of Prospectus, a liberal campus news magazine. Beauchamp and Rehn met one year ago while campaigning for Howard Dean.

      LINK 2

      She quotes him again here in this article April 26, 2004.

      “I don’t think there’s usually enough men at these kind of events, so it’s really important to show up and support it” said Scott Beauchamp, who endured a 24-hour bus ride from Columbia to attend Sunday’s march. “I think it’s really a civil rights issue.”

      LINK 3

      And at this link you will see the wedding registry for Scott Beachamp and Elspeth Reeve.

      LINK 4

      And at this link here you will see an article stating that Elspeth is a self professed liberal.

      LINK 5

      So to sum it up, they are both liberals, have known each other well for at least 3 years, plan to get married in october, but don’t disclose any of this when writing these stories.

      Kind of like when John Kerry showed up in April 1971, and Ted Kennedy states on nbc video this is the first time he met this fine young gentleman, but the fine young gentleman had worked for his senatorial campaign 9 years earlier, and been photgraphed on the kennedy yacht 9 years earlier.