[JennysCool]

we cannot be confident that the events in his pieces occurred in exactly the manner that he described them.

What a wussy "retraction."

[lp boonie]

What were the lies?

[cpanter]

In other words..... the editors were caught not doing their job and continued to print the stories of a liar because of one simple reason - they liked the stories he told.

[MizSterious]

Oh please. Beachamp did exactly what he knew was expected of him: trash the war, trash the troops.

[BOBTHENAILER]

::very big snip::

That's the best part of this post. The VERY BIG SNIP of a POS periodical.

[aculeus]

By the weekend, the Standard's editor, William Kristol, published an editorial that, without evidence, pronounced the Diarist an open-and-shut case.

The nerve of this Bag of **** accusing Kristol of acting "without evidence".

[chopperman]

He was a young soldier in a war zone, an untried writer without journalistic training.

Why would someone need journalistic training to just tell the truth?

[SJSAMPLE]

He was a young soldier in a war zone, an untried writer without journalistic training.

Being a "young soldier" and lacking "journalistic training" has NOTHING to do with it.

The guy lied, made up tons of shit and TNR printed it. The people who need "journalistic training" are the editors who didn't attempt to verify or corroborate any of what Beauchamp wrote.

[Ann Archy]

Hey Frankie....you put him there cause he’s married to one of your other writers and you knew he would write what you wanted him to....ala Plame/Wilson.

[Jacquerie]

TNR freely used “conservative” in their fourteen page, smoke filled, obfuscating retraction to describe and deride those who questioned the accuracy of Beachamp’s imagination. They just can’t help themselves.

[donna]

we cannot be confident that the events in his pieces occurred in exactly the manner that he described them

This and the apology from Erin Burnett for calling President Bush a monkey are good examples of bad character.

[wildbill]

Classic Clintonism:

It depends upon what “occurred” means.

[Theresawithanh]

By reports on this, Mr. Beauchamp wanted to be the next Hemingway. Guess he’ll have to settle for being just another disgraced liar.

[eggman]

He was a young soldier in a war zone, an untried writer without journalistic training.

He wasn't taught the proper way to fabricate a story but he certainly fooled TNR. Just goes to show you... You can fool some of the people (editors with an agenda) all of the time...

[RobinOfKingston]

Read all 14 pages. If the editors at tnr had put as much into checking out beauchamp initially as they did in describing how they were apparently duped they would not have gotten into this “journalistic” bind.

[Doctor Raoul]

Good news is that the Vietnam Veterans Against the War just gave Beauchamp a Life Achievement Award and afree membership.

[bvw]

The Fog of One's Delusional Madness AKA The National Review, "The Fog of War"

For months, our magazine has been subject to accusations that stories we published by an American soldier then serving in Iraq were fabricated. When these accusations first arose, we promised our readers a full account of our investigation. We spent the last four-and-a-half months re-reporting his stories. These are our findings.

When Michael Goldfarb, a blogger for The Weekly Standard, left me a message on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-July, I didn't know him or his byline. And I certainly didn't anticipate that his message would become the starting point for a controversy.

... [ Lenghtly "findings" follow. If you go to the article, follow this instructions: Click on page "10", then click "Next Page", that will then show pages 11, 12 ,13, 14. Advise all not to bother reading this haematemesis! ] ...

In retrospect, we never should have put Beauchamp in this situation. He was a young soldier in a war zone, an untried writer without journalistic training. We published his accounts of sensitive events while granting him the shield of anonymity--which, in the wrong hands, can become license to exaggerate, if not fabricate.

When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in light of the evidence available to us, after months of intensive re-reporting, we cannot be confident that the events in his pieces occurred in exactly the manner that he described them. Without that essential confidence, we cannot stand by these stories.

Pointed comment: Notice the confusion of "I/We".

[river rat]

Hey guys..... He LIED..
Why in hell can’t you simply admit he LIED and you enabled him to LIE because it played into YOUR AGENDA...

It’s as simple as that...

You and your fellow self loathing ignorant Leftist sonsuvbitches will do ANYTHING to cast a bad light on our the warriors fighting to provide you with the opportunity to LIE....

Your rag is a leftist America hating Islamist ass kissing rag, and your “apology” is NOT accepted...

One day — a reckoning will come due...
You will rue that day...

[NonValueAdded]

now unring that bell

[SouthTexas]

Snatched form Michelle Malkin:

Neeever mind!