Media Matters - Weekly Standard used alleged former male escort Matt Sanchez as source to attack credibility of a TNR "Baghdad Diarist"

Media Matters - Weekly Standard used alleged former male escort Matt Sanchez as source to attack credibility of a TNR "Baghdad Diarist":

"In an effort to undermine a New Republic article by Army Pvt. Scott Thomas
Beauchamp about alleged inappropriate conduct by U.S. troops in Iraq, an article
by Weekly Standard reporter Matthew Goldfarb relied on Marine Cpl. Matt Sanchez
as the only military source identified by name but did not reveal facts that
weigh on the credibility of Sanchez's attacks on The New Republic article: that
Sanchez, whose website describes him as a "Marine Reservist" who is "[p]resently
in Iraq interviewing the troops," has reportedly been under investigation by the
Marines over allegations that he bilked private donors out of $12,000 for a
deployment to Iraq he never made and that he apparently once worked as a male
escort. He has also admitted to having been in gay porn films, a fact he has
acknowledged "leaving ... off my curriculum vitae.""

Stop the personal attacks!