Blackfive is saying that Scott Thomas of TNR fame and fable, is Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
Bryan over at HotAir confirms, saying:
He’s Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division. He’s also calling most of his critics chickenhawks, even though most of his critics a) served in the military and/or b) have been to Iraq or c) both.
Bryan correctly notes:
How remarkably lucky for Scott that he encountered precisely the sorts of incidents during his tour that would make good librul readin’ when people like Yon, Greyhawk, and Blackfive have had to do without. I guess the Muse had special plans for him.
Then again, as BlackFive notes:
As I said every unit has a Private Beauchamp who is more or less universally disliked as a whiny loser. No one understands them and they are always getting screwed over. They always have aspirations to grandness coupled with an absolute uselessness and laziness that ensures they will never achieve it.
The incidents described by Private dung beetle did not happen in the way he described them, but some event containing morsels of truth did and then our fabulist enbellished it to match the narrative of the voices in his head. They tell him the war is evil and consequently he and the folks around him are compromised and now agents of evil. He was just doing his part to ensure that people get the truth as it should be, damn the facts.
Yeah, no kidding. Bryan suggests a comparison which Billy should find interesting:
I now think that what the TNR has on its hands is not a fraudulent soldier, but a Walter Mitty. He’s there, he’s bored, and he’s using his real experiences as a basis to make stuff up.
I suppose that Mitty remains the standard for what makes good Liberal journalism.
There is one thing that bothers me about this though, that I haven’t seen yet. What we told that “Scott Thomas” was a pseudonym? if that’s true, that his real name could not possibly be “Scott Thomas”. In short, somebody’s lying. Besides Beauchamp, I mean.
There’s an awful lot more going on here, than meets the eye, and I’m convinced the worst of it hasn’t shown up yet.
Update: Michelle Malkin has more. The comments alone are worth the trip.
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