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August 08, 2007

The New Republic's 'Fake But Accurate' War Stories

The United States Army and the rest of the sane news consuming public have concluded that John Kerry wannabe Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the "Baghdad Diarist" who accused American troops of minor atrocities in Iraq, fabricated the events he wrote about. The New Republic, publisher of the tripe (also the enabler of journalism fraud Stephen Glass) admitted that Beauchamp's "melted ledy" story took place in Kuwait, not Iraq as originally reported. Otherwise, the magazine is standing by the stories. Howard Kurtz has more: Army Concludes Baghdad Diarist Accounts Untrue

There you have it! A Dan Ratheresque defense of the indefensible: fake but accurate. The logic? Beauchamp got the facts wrong, but got the story right. American troops are committing atrocities, but since we can't actually factually report any, we'll make some up that are representative of what we think they might have done. This is what the Old Media foists upon the American public as objective news reporting.

Journalism elites, so blinded by left-wing ideology that they would destroy a basic democratic instition that is, the free press is disturbing. Kurtz quotes one of the propaganda professors:

Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at George Washington University, called the Army's refusal to release its report "suspect," adding: "There is a cloud over the New Republic, but there's one hanging over the Army, as well. Each investigated this and cleared themselves, but they both have vested interests."

The New Republic prints lies, but the U. S. Army has a cloud over it? This is right out of the Left's its well worn playbook. A former KGB agent describes their tactics during the Vietnam War, Propaganda Redux and shows how the useful idiot John Kerry swallowed it whole:

"During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness."

Here's some real reporting from Iraq:

Matt Sanchez With The 1-4 Cavalry In Dora, Baghdad

More on the "Baghdad Diarist":

Taking Issue With Private Scott Beauchamp

Posted by jeffgannon at August 8, 2007 08:35 AM

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