The Pajamas Media Apache server crashed briefly today because of another Drudge link – this one to Rich Miniter’s latest on The New Republic scandal. It will be interesting to see if TNR responds and how. I have been working with Rich behind the scenes on this all week. We don’t have a big staff and I have to do triple duty. No complaints. It just accounts for the low blogging on here. Will get back to it – or clone myself.
To give you an idea of the power of the Drudge Report to drive news – as if you didn’t know – at one point we were getting eleven thousand requests per second.
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1. Lem:Ok ok, how about his one – ‘Sleeping with the enemy’
OR
The Army the Writer His Wife & His Lies.
Aug 20, 2007 - 10:35 am 2. Lola:Good story. Seems that there’s a timeline that someone’s set up which seems to show that Beauchamp may have been two-timing at the time this article was written. What a prick, if this timeline is accurate. I can’t remember what the URL of this post (which was posted today, I think) is . . . anyone come across this?
Aug 20, 2007 - 10:58 am 3. heather:Miniter’s interview with “Priscilla” is interesting: that this Scott fellow could have set up a wedding, involved his family in said wedding, etc., and then walked away to get married to the New Republic woman… just very weird, not to speak, completely dishonourable.
Also, that the “Left”, via Huffington, has attacked whistleblower McGee for being gay.
I would say that – for decent people – the “Left” is not a very nice place to be.
Aug 20, 2007 - 11:13 am 4. Lem:TNR’s circulation – 65,000 a year
Pajamas TNR hits from Drudge – 11 thousand a second.
Pajamas ‘TNR’s oops we did it again’ story
Aug 20, 2007 - 11:55 am 5. Lem:Is it just me or does anybody else sees Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame parallels here?
Joe Wilson as Beauchamp making stuff up.
Valerie as Beauchamp’s wife who’s identity must remain ’secret’.
The MSM as itself. Defend, defend, defend and when found out blame the right.
The CIA as TNR, unable or incapable of finding out the truth.
Aug 20, 2007 - 12:29 pm 6. Neo:The steady drip .. drip .. drip of this story and the absence of any meaningful blowback (except that “it doesn’t matter, does it?”) shows that the “search for truth” isn’t as important for the TNR and it’s lovers than the “search for truth that is inconvient for their enemies.”
Rich Miniter makes Beauchamp sound like nut case, and TNR, a partisan co-conspirator with a nut case.
Aug 20, 2007 - 1:04 pm 7. Neo:He[McGee] just got a cease-and-desist order from The New Republic
Beauchamp seems to have already settled up things with the military, so does anybody have any idea what the lawyers for TNR are pretecting TNR from ?
Unlawful termination of McGee comes to mind, but, except for the hit to their (already tattered) reputation, legally to what liability is TNR exposed ?
Aug 20, 2007 - 1:15 pm 8. triticale:Any chance those 11,000 hits per second were a denial of service attack intended to suppress the story? Just a wild theory, but I would think that Apache keeps an IP log which would allow checking for that.
Aug 20, 2007 - 2:19 pm 9. Roger:triticale, yes, it seems there was a denial of service attack, but it is difficult to tell the intention from the IP log. Nevertheless,the timing is interesting… In any case, the story is well out now.
Aug 20, 2007 - 5:02 pm 10. Roger:triticale, yes, it seems there was a denial of service attack, but it is difficult to tell the intention from the IP log. Nevertheless,the timing is interesting… In any case, the story is well out now.
Aug 20, 2007 - 5:02 pm 11. ShoreMark:TNR goes back a long, long way, but they seem hell bent on destroying their franchise of late (of late, meaning the last decade or so).
It’s almost as if they feel that they should be able to do whatever they want without consequence — they’re emulating the perspective of a two year old, in other words.
I only regret that I let my subscription lapse before having the opportunity to cancel it with righteous indignation over the latest snafu.
Aug 20, 2007 - 7:30 pm 12. archriker:Roger:
Several center-right blogs I visit on a regular basis are questioning the wronged girlfriend, jilted fiance angle. Personally I wasn’t bothered by it that much on reading the article, because Rich Miniter acknowledges such sources may have issues.
What are your feelings?
Aug 20, 2007 - 8:21 pm 13. Roger:Basically, I agree with you, archriker.
Aug 20, 2007 - 9:58 pm