Interesting article about how when The New Republic's Scott Thomas Beauchamp articles turned out to be fraud--and a member of the The New Republic's staff named McGee anonymously informed people investigating the fraud that Beauchamp's wife was a fact-checker for the magazine (and apparently a fact-checker on her husband's article)--they fired him. And then, the left started to engage in smears of McGee because he was gay!
Shortly after 7 AM on Thursday, July 26, McGee got a short phone call from The New Republic’spublisher. The magazine staff had tracked his anonymous web postings to his work station near the publisher’s office. Her message was short: “Your services were no longer needed.”
The magazine was at least as consumed by finding the whistle-blower (McGee) than in presenting a full accounting to its readers.
McGee’s says his leaks were not motivated by ideology. He told me he “didn’t feel an ideological distance when I worked there. I felt pretty comfortable.”
He said he felt frustrated that the magazine could not do the simplest thing: admit they’d made a mistake, that their fair-minded critics had raised some good points and that they would address it as best they could.
It is odd that McGee has been the only one fired over the Beauchamp scandal. Wouldn’t Foer be a likely candidate? Or the fact-checkers who failed to do their duty? Or Elspeth for knowingly bringing Beauchamp into its respected pages?
Instead, the left-o-sphere turned on its attack machine and pointed it at… McGee.
An attack on McGee in the Huffington Post outed the former publisher’s assistant as gay.
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