Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp is more novelist than journalist.
Under normal circumstances, that statement really wouldn't be a big deal; but according to information obtained by Drudge, it's a very big deal.
It was previously reported that The New Republic stood by Beauchamp.
The Weekly Standard said Beauchamp signed a sworn statement admitting all three articles were exaggerations and falsehoods.
Calls to Editor Franklin Foer at The New Republic in Washington were not returned, but the magazine said on its Web site that it has conducted its own investigation and stands by Beauchamp's work.
Apparently, The New Republic's own investigation revealed that Beauchamp's work was BS, according to Drudge.
Drudge has posted PDF files spelling it out.
Document 1: Beauchamp Refuses to Stand by Story
Document 2: Beauchamp Admits to "Gross Exaggerations and Inaccurate Allegations"
Document 3: Army Investigation: Tales "Completely Fabricated," Beauchamp Wanted to be Hemingway
The third document obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT is the Army's official report on the investigation into the allegations made by Private Beauchamp. The Army concluded that Beauchamp had "completely fabricated" the story of mocking a disfigured woman, that his description of a "Saddam-era dumping ground" was false, and that claims that he and his men had deliberately targeted dogs with their armored vehicles was "completely unfounded." Further the report stated "that Private Beauchamp desired to use his experiences to enhance his writing and provide legitimacy to his work possibly becoming the next Hemingway."
The report concludes that "Private Beauchamp takes small bits of truth and twists and exaggerates them into fictional accounts that he puts forth as the whole truth for public consumption."
(Note: The links to the PDF files are down. Drudge also pulled the story off his page, though the link to his story still works. Here's more on that.)
When will the Left learn?
Lying doesn't pay.
"Lies and the lying liars who tell them" will be exposed.
Propaganda and the propagandizing propagandists who disseminate it will be revealed.
Beauchamp is a liar. He knew that his work for The New Republic wasn't being published as fiction.
The New Republic spread the lies.
And the Left ate it all up.
The most damning part of this new information is that it proves The New Republic knew that Beauchamp was not willing to stand by his stories as factual accounts.
TNR cared more about sticking to Beauchamp's falsehoods and fabrications than revealing the truth about the troops. Better to stand by a liar than to admit that Beauchamp was engaged in creative writing.
BUSTED.
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