Posted on 05/16/2005 2:25:50 PM PDT by zetapsi
Newsweek Magazine printed a report in their May 9th issue that U.S. interrogators have been desecrating the Koran in Guantanamo Bay… only to now say, “Oops, we’re sorry, that’s unconfirmed....”
......In Afghanistan alone, there have been 16 deaths and over 100 injuries related to riots in protest against America arising from the Newsweek report....
“But where’s the bias? It was just a mistake that they went to print with allegations…” some liberals might argue. But we have seen this before. This is another example of when a media outlet wants something to be true and is hell bent on reporting on it, so much that they will simply print unconfirmed or unchecked allegations.....
It’s good to know that the editor of one of the most influential news magazines in the world feels that something that cannot be proven to have not happened is news. Well, Mr. Whitaker, I can’t say whether Humpty Dumpty really had a great fall, but if I knew his fall directly impacted all the king’s men, I would wait to confirm it before I went to print.
(Excerpt) Read more at DavidEhrlich.com ...
Personally, I think a koran is a terrible thing to do to a toilet.
I wonder what Newspeak will come up with to keep them from going under like cBS?
Seems to me if it were true it would have been one page at a time, as someone forgot to restock the TP.
Well, they could be like Time and put Ann Coulter on the cover for one thing. Second, they could not have Isikoff as one of their head guys and recruit just 1 conservative to balance everything... like John Podhoretz or something.
Fire Eleanor Clift. She's probably "behind" the whole thing.
Definetely.... I have a hard time keeping my lunch down when I hear her speak a lot of the time.
Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post Co.
It really is crazy when you think about it.... they're DIRECTLY responsible for the death of some people. The protestors, though out of hand, have a right to voice their displeasure if the allegations were true.... but now people are dead because of this.
Your username is funny, I refer to "checkraising" all the time when talking about the "poker table" of politics. I just used it in my last article, too. www.DavidEhrlich.com/PULLOUT
Yeah.... at least the Post has Krauthammer as a contributor.... Newsweek should have at least 1 or 2 like that, the ones that are remotely even moderate don't get the credit that Isikoff and Clift do.
thats a good chart..... unfortunately, this little fiasco will probably increase circulation int he short term
No, people shouldn't die as a result of shoddy journalism. Mistakes happen all the time and people die - a fact of life. However, in the present situation it appears that the reporter "filled in the blanks" in a manner that impugned US Troops and made the US look bad.
Obviously, the sense of outrage here with the MSM is due to their inherent anti-American bias that led to the mistake. The "Newsweek lied, people died" item is obviously a parody on the incessant "Bush lied" mantra of the left.
Yeah... I'm not holding my breath to see bumper stickers with the slogan on minivans in New England and hybrid cars in California.
Yeah, but the good news is that all the dead and injured were radical Islamofacists foaming at the mouth and pounding their chests. Maybe Newsweek has inadvertently discovered a new anti-terrorist weapon.
I really do understand your point.... but if this were the other way around... and it was them that had allegedly desecrated a Bible, you would see it differently. I agree with you that the protestors were most likely not moderates... however, they might have been founded in their protests if the allegations were true. If Afghan prisons were torturing Americans and doing that to a Bible, one might empathize with protests.
Obviously, Newsweek's occupation of the U.S. is in total quagmire mode. They should simply pull out their troops and go back to where it is they come from, be it the Soviet Union or Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
Well, I don't think the article said they were being tortured otherwise. In fact, one Iman said that flushing a koran down a toilet was the torture. A rather ridiculous statement when you consider what they do to their own prisoners, (beheadings, beatings, executions, tortures). In all honesty, if I read that al Zaqwari was only flushing Bibles down a toilet when he captured American civilians I'd be very, very happy for our POW's.
On the other hand, I fully understand that Newsreek was trying to provoke the Muslim world to arms against our military and to hate the US even more. I am so happy to know that their plan has backfired so strongly against themselves and the people they support, Muslim radicals.
I do see where you're coming from..... them flushing a Bible down a toilet really isn't beyond anything they've done thus far, it would actually be an improvement from those animals...... but the protestors, as radical as they might be, weren't the ones torturing Americans in Mosul or Fallujah. Sure, the Taliban that are provoking them are equal in severity, but i doubt it was any of them that were trampled or anything.
I'm the last one to stick up for any of those people, knowing full well how hard our boys are working to create a more free world over there.... this whole thing is just unfortunate.
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