Posted on 11/27/2006 12:44:32 PM PST by areafiftyone
I laid off this post at Flopping Aces initially because I didn’t think there was anything particularly suspicious about the cop. Centcom was disputing his report of the six Sunnis burned alive by Shiites but they could have been wrong just as easily as he could. I also didn’t (and still don’t) see Curt’s point about the cop only being quoted in cases where Shiites attack Sunnis. If he’s stationed in an area where Shiite attacks on Sunnis are common, that’s going to happen.
But go see his latest update, all the way at the bottom. And bear in mind — the AP’s been using this guy for months.
Like Patterico said about that L.A. Times airstrike story that’s imploding at an ever accelerating rate:
I learned something important about reporting from Iraq in general. Big Media journalists often rely on sources that are unreliable. They don’t tell you the pressures these sources might be under from insurgents and terrorists. They refuse to tell you who their stringers are, so we can assess their motivations. They get quotes from doctors who seem to see only civilian deaths. If the military has been given insufficient time to respond to an allegation, these journalists don’t check with the military later, to verify that the story they’ve written is accurate. And sometimes, as here, their stories are completely at odds with numerous other accounts reported in other press outlets — and they seem to have no interest in finding out why.
It’s very sobering to realize that much of the news coming out of Iraq is completely unreliable.
Goldstein thinks this is evidence that the violence in Iraq isn’t pandemic, which is a lot further than I’m willing to go. But he’s always worth reading, so partake. Centcom, meanwhile, is demanding a retraction from the AP. They haven’t, to my knowledge, demanded one from the L.A. Times, but Patterico sort of has. Response thus far: zero.
Update: If Curt’s site goes down, the backup is here.
Update: Curt has posted a new update at his backup site. According to him, Centcom is waiting to hear back from the AP before issuing a press release about this. They’ve requested a retraction of the “burned alive” story or “a correction at a minimum.”
Wow. It shouldn't surprise anyone here.
HAAAAAA! Oh man is this good. Look at this bit of propaganda blowing up in the Freeper Generals faces
Too late. Already seared into everybody's memory.
The AP hasn't learned yet to mistrust Iraqi cops who come to the hotel bar to give them stories.
But...but...but...if CNN and stuff say it it's got to be TRUE! Right?
This is hilarious. WHY can't think of any of the Doubting Thomases right now? Oh, wait...I can!!
I wanted to make sure you saw this since we crossed paths on it the other day.
Who'd a thunk it? :-)
And a surprise as well that some so-called conservatives on this very forum lap up every word they say.....
I'm here. Glad to get the truth for a change. Congressional investigation of the sources of news from Iraq, anyone? Oh, wait a minute, the 100%ers not voting, voting 3rd party or voting Dem, gave us a Dem Congress. Never mind.
I hear from soldiers regularly. What is going on in the MSM and the hysterics in the punditry and military and political chattering classes does not resemble the reality of what is going on in Iraq.
I'm sure it's not. How many times have we here on Free Republic exposed the media but they still get away with it.
is there a Hotel Caravelle in Baghdad?
And the MSM still gets away with it and because they know the theme of modern music is "not to understand the past" and "not to search out the truth"; but to "live for today".
I have queried others, on this subject. They check the news out as one would their daily horoscope.
The MSM knows this.
MSM anchorman: "We had a bad day in Iraq today.. millions of people died in civil war".
Translation, personified in the mind of the average viewer of such tripe: "I am a bad person. Not only did my country (me) be involved with slavery leading to a civil war, but we (me) am doing it again. People are dying because I'm a bad person".
Translation of the personal to political action: "I am Cindy Sheehan, and I am your Savior".
It's all a marketing package whereby the MSM, the audience, and "saviors" like Sheehan are assisting their "big Business Buddies" whether in actual goods, jobs, labor or on Wall Street in re investments, stocks, trades, etc.
Pardon my verbosity, I know you know all this.
I'm shocked! LOL!
This seems to be still cooking....CQ now has link to Aces....
Attack Sparks Fire at Iraq Oil Facility
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Separately, police and witnesses said U.S. soldiers shot and killed 11 civilians and wounded five on Sunday night in the Baghdad suburb of Husseiniya. The U.S. military said it had no record of any American military operation in the area.
"We were sitting inside our house when the Americans showed up and started firing at homes. They killed many people and burned some houses," said one of the witnesses, a man with bandages on his head who was being treated at Imam Ali Hospital in the Shiite slum of Sadr City. The police and witnesses spoke with Associated Press Television News on condition of anonymity to protect their own security.
It's not an accident,....they intend to help the Marxists agenda....see Unholy Alliance....book by David Horowitz....
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