And so we see The New Republic finally awakening from its long silence on the Scott Beauchamp issue, to say absolutely nothing, other than it’s all the army’s fault.
Gee. Big surprise. It strikes me, that the real show of bad faith here, was, is currently, and shows no sign of ever being otherwise, squarely in the lap of The New Republic. That’s becoming increasingly obvious, even to some liberals.
The but you know, it strikes me that it would be an awful lot simpler for them to simply admit they were wrong, to hand us Franklin Foer’s swollen head on a platter, and be done with it. Standing up and admitting that they booted this one, seems the easiest path out. It’s about time they took it.
Certainly, there would be some credibility concerns, forever after such a move, but since when has the truth ever mattered to the readers of The New Republic? The readers of The New Republic never wanted anything but leftist pap. They continued to buy that publication for the simple reason that they knew that that publication would tell them what they wanted to hear. It was the fervent unblinking pursuit of leftist pap that got the publication into this situation in the first place. Spreading the leftist mantra, is after all, how you earn respect in leftist circles. The leftists who read that publication are not going to disappear now, having found out that in pursuit of what leftists want to hear, they forgot their fact checking. It’s not like anybody else working in the same general neighborhood has a great deal better reputation . And the readers don’t care anyway.
Meantime, the legal bills are going to be stacking up because of the way they screwed this one up. And by the way, lest we forget, the damage to the leftist mantra, is also mounting, with every defense The New Republic throws up. The centrists, after all, are watching, and there’s an election coming soon.
Better to say “To hell with the box, Monty, I’m going with what’s behind curtain number three….”
I wonder if they have the smarts.
Udpate: (Bit)
Ex-UrbanLeauge doesn’t think so.
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