Is there a magazine whose reputation is so impervious to the fallout from its scandals as the New Republic? In its 93-year history, its pages have been turned over to Soviet apologists and Soviet spies, plagiarists and fabulists, and now, apparently, to an imaginative army private whose briefs outlining bad behavior in Iraq by American troops meshes well with the elitist outlook at the New Republic but not with the truth.

TNR infamously reported Soviet Russia as boasting "the most democratic franchise yet devised in our world," among other lies, in the aftermath of the Communists' post-revolution coup. Michael Straight, grandson of the New Republic's founding sugar daddy, served as publisher of the magazine immediately after secretly serving as a spy for the Soviet Union. In those days, the mid-1940s to be precise, the switch in professions required no great shift in ideology. The magazine, however, did shift, from far-left to milquetoast liberal in the 1950s, which is perhaps the greatest factor in awarding it an undeserved immunity to sloppiness, distortions, and other journalistic sins. Its respectable liberal stance makes it, in the eyes of its milquetoast-liberal snobbish readership, de facto a respectable magazine. Being an urban, establishment liberal means never having to say you're sorry. Such are the perks of the enlightened, the elect, the good.

It's not that the magazine hasn't enjoyed lively periods. The editorship of Andrew Sullivan brought out the best of the New Republic. But the liveliest periods in the magazine's history involved not the subject matter its scribes wrote about, but the writers who penned that subject matter. The cardinal sin of journalists--becoming the story--is one that so many of TNR's young writers have had trouble avoiding. In the 1990s, the magazine printed words previously written in other journals by other writers under Ruth Shalit's byline and Steven Glass's wildly-creative fiction under the rubric of serious reporting. I encountered Glass at CPAC, conversed with him for five minutes or so on the type of article he planned to write, learned that he had had a youthful dalliance with conservatism at Penn, and later encountered his made-up article on the conservative conference in the New Republic. A co-worker, who had gone to school with one of Glass's TNR colleagues, called to complain. The response, as I remember it, went something like: we, as conservatives, were sour grapes simply because our side made itself look bad--and got caught. As it turned out, it was ideological prejudices among the neoliberal (whatever that word means) editors at the New Republic that allowed them to print distortions with such gullibility. They saw us as ideologically inspired, unable to see our ugly selves--which in Glass's imagination included coke binges, "whale" hunts, and other nihilistic pursuits among young conservatives--through our blinders. They could not fathom themselves suffering from such politically-motivated delusions. But they did, and apparently, still do.

Now comes word that the magazine's Baghdad Diarist, a private in the army, recanted the claims made pseudonymously on the New Republic's website to army investigators. The jury is still out, as higher-ranking military interrogators could exert such pressure on junior enlistees as to induce a false confession and as the private at the center of the controversy is not available to give his side of the story. But it doesn't look good. The New Republic has admitted inaccuracies in the private's articles, the army concludes that he's a phony, and well, the magazine's track record, if not its reputation, in this regard is not good.

Is the Army's record any better? They deliberately fabricated stories around Pat Tillman's death and Jessica Lynch's rescue, so we don't know who to believe.

I can see the army not wanting to come clean on pats death. he was so popular and a big name just made it that much harder too accept friendly fire deaths. i dont say its right ,but it destroys morale. as for lynch, how did they fabricate her story? did i miss something?

"Tales of great heroism were being told. My parent’s home in Wirt county [West Virginia] was under siege of the media all repeating the story of the little girl Rambo from the hills who went down fighting. It was not true."

"However, I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary."

Jessica Lynch

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