If lefties (such as Max Blumenthal, currently serving in the Peshewar area; google it, I won't link) want to say an allegedly gay dude's claims are inherently suspect because he digs on cock, then maybe they ought to address Beauchamp's apparent deficiencies in this area:

Rehn "The Bird" was in town (you can see him staring at my ass in my profile picture), along with a cheeky limey bastard named Sam. I wish I could say that we three queens had an insightful conversation about the recent British elections...

I will stress again: I have not said a word about this since the story broke. I knew about this since Beauchamp's name was released. I have not made an issue of it. It didn't occur to me this could be an issue, even though it does tend to suggest a reason for anti-military animus.

However, if full and umblemished record of lifelong heterosexuality is now, according to lefties, some sort of requirement for reliability, well, it seems Scott Beauchamp's got a whole new credibility problem.

I'm so sick of the fucking left. If someone says something they don't like, they just bleat over and over "FAG! FAG! FAG! FAG!"

Well, fuck self-restraint. If that's the game we're playing, then game on.

That's Scottie and "Rehn," mentioned in the post above, who is "obviously gay" by his own self-assessment.

Now, I'm not going to say anything about that picture, but I think if I worked for Page 6, I just might call that some light-to-moderate "canoodling," if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

We havin' fun now kids?

Isn't this a riot?

I don't like being the first guy into the gutter.

I have less of a problem with being the second.

Yeah I Know... He claims to have had any number of girlfriends in Germany and proposed to, I think, half of them.

Which is, you know, completely consistent with typical heterosexual behavior.

Some days I can barely make it to lunch without proposing to a woman.

Gay Porn = Dishonesty: Does this pic, from Scottie B's myspace page, count as gay porn?

I guess not. What's the rule for gay erotica?

I wonder if we'll have any stories along these lines on the Scott Thomas: International Soldier of Mystery blog.

I'm informed that if one goes to his My Space page one can find all sorts of pictures in which he looks... well, I don't want to say gay. I'll say, possessed of a colorful and far-ranging sex life.

Since This Is Relevant... I had not previously understood this to be relevant. But now Max Blumenthal (son of "Sid Vicious" Blumenthal, who called Monica Lewinsky a crazed "stalker") attacks Matt Sanchez, yet again, for supposedly have been in gay porn.

Along the way he implies a source in the TNR story is gay too, just for fun. Depsite the fact that everything this source has said has been accurate, unlike the "reportage" of Scott Beauchamp. And despite the fact that Matt Sanchez' major contribution to the story thusfar has been his finding that no soldiers at FOB Falcon ever saw a "melted" woman -- something TNR itself now concedes, as it admits "error" in mistaking Camp Beurhing in Kuwait for FOB Falcon in Iraq.

So why on earth would someone push the Sanchez-is-gay thing so hard? He contributed one major bit to the story (before today), and that is already proven. We don't have to rely on his credibility for that -- it is now a fact admitted by TNR.

Today he breaks the major story that investigation has "proven the claim to not have been true," but then, Blumenthal didn't know that when he penned his little smearjob.

So why, of all the hundreds of military men, bloggers, and milbloggers adding to this story, focus only on Matt Sanchez?

Well, because he's one of the few Blumenthal can call a queer, of course.

So, given that heterosexuality is now required as regards credibility--

What's Max Blumenthal's sexuality, I wonder? I have no idea, but he kind of looks like the sort of guy who might enjoy a colorful and far-ranging sex life.

These questions need to be answered. A man's sexuality is a crucial component of his credibility, so we really need to know if Max Blumenthal maybe experimented a bit in middle school.