Comments on: TNR post mortem http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:43:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grumpy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-106211 Grumpy Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:04:37 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/#comment-106211 Lex, in reply to "Casca", his 15 minutes were up before they started. After your "Post Mortem" on this insanity, BURY IT AND LEAVE IT THERE! Grumpy Lex, in reply to “Casca”, his 15 minutes were up before they started. After your “Post Mortem” on this insanity, BURY IT AND LEAVE IT THERE!

Grumpy

]]> By: P-3W http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-106165 P-3W Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:17:49 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/#comment-106165 Kris, I like my word better -- dumbsh!ts. Cheers. Kris, I like my word better — dumbsh!ts.

Cheers.

]]> By: Kris, in New England http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-106155 Kris, in New England Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:57:44 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/#comment-106155 Forgive me for saying this here, I don't normally talk this way in such a civilized format as Lex's Place, but all I can come up with is one word to describe the TNR and their "fact checking" - assholes. Forgive me for saying this here, I don’t normally talk this way in such a civilized format as Lex’s Place, but all I can come up with is one word to describe the TNR and their “fact checking” – assholes.

]]> By: ASM826 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-106141 ASM826 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:20:24 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/#comment-106141 CPT J. said it right. TNR wanted to hear what Beauchamp was saying. They wanted the military to be so bad, so broken, so evil. He fed them exactly what they were looking for. And it seems clear that they still don't get it. The magazine has their statement about the incident only available for subscribers. It can be found by searching Google for "A Statement on Scott Beauchamp" and then selecting the "cached" version on the first return. Here is one paragraph of the statement: "All of Beauchamp's essays were fact-checked before publication. We checked the plausibility of details with experts, contacted a corroborating witness, and pressed the author for further details. But publishing a first-person essay from a war zone requires a measure of faith in the writer. Given what we knew of Beauchamp, personally and professionally, we credited his report. After questions were raised about the veracity of his essay, TNR extensively re-reported Beauchamp's account." CPT J. said it right. TNR wanted to hear what Beauchamp was saying. They wanted the military to be so bad, so broken, so evil. He fed them exactly what they were looking for. And it seems clear that they still don’t get it.
The magazine has their statement about the incident only available for subscribers. It can be found by searching Google for “A Statement on Scott Beauchamp” and then selecting the “cached” version on the first return. Here is one paragraph of the statement:

“All of Beauchamp’s essays were fact-checked before publication. We checked the plausibility of details with experts, contacted a corroborating witness, and pressed the author for further details. But publishing a first-person essay from a war zone requires a measure of faith in the writer. Given what we knew of Beauchamp, personally and professionally, we credited his report. After questions were raised about the veracity of his essay, TNR extensively re-reported Beauchamp’s account.”

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-106089 Justthisguy Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:17:51 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/#comment-106089 Compare and show contrast with Winston Churchill. Winston joined the Army for political reasons, no kiddin, but had to actually, like, *participate* seriously in the action, to be taken seriously afterwards. Winston was aware of the unusual softness and pinkness of his particular body, but chose to risk it anyway. Compare and show contrast with Winston Churchill.

Winston joined the Army for political reasons, no kiddin, but had to actually, like, *participate* seriously in the action, to be taken seriously afterwards.

Winston was aware of the unusual softness and pinkness of his particular body, but chose to risk it anyway.

]]> By: Nose http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-106047 Nose Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:37:38 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/08/20/tnr-post-mortem/#comment-106047 I smell a future Governor (D) for Arkansas and White House to follow... N I smell a future Governor (D) for Arkansas and White House to follow…

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