A point of honor
Last night I got an email from Confederate Yankee who has often been running point on the Beauchamp/The New Republic story for the entire blogoshere. He asked me to support a boycott he was starting against The New Republic. Of course I said I would, then I fell asleep waiting for the Redskins to score. But I’m refreshed this morning and so so here’s the gist of the plan from CY;
We know that TNR allowed all three of Scott Beauchamp’s stories to be published without being competently fact-checked, if fact-checked at all.
We know that the editors of TNR, led by Franklin Foer, lied when they said that the stories had been competently fact-checked, we know they deceived their readers and misled at least one civilian expert in an attempt to create a whitewash of an investigation.
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We know The New Republic attempted to stonewall their way through obvious, blatant, and grievous breaches of journalistic ethics. In so doing, they have attacked the service, integrity, and honor of an entire company of American soldiers serving in a combat zone to avoid taking responsibility for their own editorial and ethical failures.
Alfred A. Knopf Allstate Amazon.com American Gas Station American Petroleum Institute Astro Zeneca (current issue) Auto Alliance Bearing Point Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (current issue) BP (current issue) Chevron (current issue) CNN FLAME (current issue) Federal Express The Financial Times Focus Features Ford Motor Company Freddie Mac GM Grove Atlantic HBO Harvard University Press History Channel Hoover Institution (current issue) MetLife Microsoft Mortage Bankers Nuclear Energy Institute The New School New York Times Novartis Palgrave Macmillan (current issue) Â Simon & Shuster John Templeton Foundation (current issue) University of Chicago Press University Press of Kansas (current issue) U.S. Telecom Visa (current issue) The Wall Street Journal Warner Brothers Warner Brothers Home Video W.W. Norton Wyeth Laboratories Yale University Press (current issue) I’d ask U.S. military veterans, military families, active duty personnel, and the vast majority of Americans who support our servicemen and women to call these companies, institutions and agencies to pull their advertising from TNR, effective immediately.
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We cannot force The New Republic to behave honorably, but we can make their dishonesty come at a price.
I’m 100% behind this – Beauchamp has at least decided to rehabilitate himself, on the other hand, TNR hasn’t shown the least bit of remorse for their skullduggery.
Blackfive‘s The Wolf and Chickenhawk Express are on board.
Category: Administrative, Media, Politics, Society
Beauchamp is an attention whore who willingly allowed himself to be used by TNR. In the process, he lied, denigrated his fellow Soldiers, and caused an outrageous distraction that his unit did not need. Everyone makes mistakes, but what he did was not a “mistakeâ€, it was intentional slander with malice and forethought. I read that his C.O. wants to keep him in the Army. He’d better keep a UCMJ manual handy. He’ll need it. Congratulations, TNR. Your credibility is in the crapper.