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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Pajamas Media: How TNR got “suckered” by Scott Thomas Beauchamp
Pajamas Media’s Richard Miniter writes an in-depth report that takes a look at how The New Republic, in their words, got ’suckered’ by Scott Thomas – their ‘military blogger’ – aka Scott Thomas Beauchamp. The teaser (emphasis added):
Miniter spoke with several people involved in the extraordinary story, including the whistle-blower and a German woman who was Beauchamp’s fiancée until just before he married, of all people, Miniter discovered, a fact-checker at The New Republic. That fiancée said of her former boyfriend, the soldier/reporter: “He hates the army. The only reason he joined was because he wanted to have more experience to write about.”
It’s really a fascinating, well-soureced read, and not only talks about TNR’s gullibility, but also the kind of person Beauchamp is.
Tigerhawk isn’t mincing any words when it comes to both TNR and Beauchamp – and the people who are most interested in wanting to believe the worst about our military:
What motivates an American to join his own country’s army for the purpose of defaming it? Why did a once great magazine eagerly chase stories that represent our soldiers as debased?
The sad answer to both questions is that there is a large audience eager for this version of “the truth.”
Self-loathing Americans disgust me.
I find it very telling that those self-loathing Americans (who we all know are the shameless Nutroots) would implicity trust what TNR publishes, considering their major crediblity issues, trusts the liberal media in spite of the many admissions and discoveries of liberal bias in supposedly mainstream, objective reporting, yet sneers at Fox News for their perceived credibility issues and conservative bias.
It’s all in what you ‘want’ to believe for this crowd, and the truth be damned.
PM Update: Make sure to check out Randall Hoven’s Media Hall of Shame list – the first one is here, and additions are posted here.
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Hoven’s got one great list there…a handy reference the next time a leftists tries to claim there’s no media bias, like one who trolled in here a few days ago.
I’d add one right away to his list: CNN’s Peter Arnett, making up the quote that “We had to destroy the village to save it” during the Vietnam war. Apparently leftists haven’t changed a bit since then – if the facts don’t match your politics, make up new “facts”.
One commenter to Confederate Yankee came up with this egregious solecism:
“Yes, Beauchamp’s articles may contain some untruths. They might be total fiction. But it doesn’t matter, does it?”
Is it just me or doesn’t that sound like Evan Thomas’ lame excuse for Newsweak when the Duke Lacrosse stripper-lies surfaced?
“The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong.”
Sounds like the commenter was just the average CSJ graduate—cheating on his/her ethics exam.
This is another of the “The narrative is right, we just got the facts wrong” arguments. As if facts are irrelevant, nothing more than styling accessories.
My own take on the Rather/Mapes story is still valid, I think: “Just because we’re lying is no reason not to believe us!”