Automated Reply Letter from Newsweek (Vanity, FYI)

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[Kerretarded]

This was a reply received from Newsweek. Plenty of phone numbers which can be flooded.

Call away.

[NormsRevenge]

13. What section of NewsBleak contains factual reports?

[minus_273]

all

[NormsRevenge]

interesting profile, enjoying your stay?

[federal]

bookmark

[johnny7]

Where ya'll from anyway?

[lOKKI]

Here's my letter to Newsweek for what it's worth:

SUBJECT: "RATHER" DISGUSTING
“Whitaker told Reuters that Newsweek did not know if the reported toilet incident involving the Koran ever occurred. "As to whether anything like this happened, we just don't know," he said in an interview.

"We're not saying it absolutely happened but we can't say that it absolutely didn't happen either."
Dear Sirs:
The quote above reeks of Dan Rather and “Fake but Accurate”. You should be ashamed of your representative. He’s done more damage to your reputation with that weasel-worded cop-out than the original error ever could have. I was actually pleased that Newsweek had admitted the original error. Anyone can get burned by a previously reliable source (although, I had thought that the ‘Trust but verify’ method was practiced at Newsweek). I thought it spoke to journalistic integrity to admit the error and apologize.
However, when you start whining that the dog could have eaten your homework, you look absurd and dishonest.

“We’re not saying it absolutely happened but we can’t say that it absolutely didn’t happen either”

Please fire Mr. Whitaker, and the reporter, and expose the source for deliberately lying. I’m sure that you’ll say that you can’t since you have no proof that their actions were deliberate….

No problem – just explain in their letters of termination that “We’re not saying it absolutely happened but we can’t say that it absolutely didn’t happen either”. Don’t worry about their futures – they can get jobs working for Dan Rather.
(Signed)

[combat_boots]

So, for the sake of an "I don't know," people have now DIED. That's real journalistic integrity for you. /sarc.

[minus_273]

I've lived here almost all my life but ethnically i cam from Nepal.

[minus_273]

certainly am. :-D

[NormsRevenge]

But Massachusetts? Of all the states to locate to,,, the liberal hellhole of the Northeast. yikes!

[cweese]

Why come down so hard on Newsweek?

Because they are anti-American, just as you seem to be. Are things too slow at DU for you today?

[minus_273]

i grew up here and went to college here and work. I think of it as being behind enemy lines.

[Lou L]

1. HOW DO I GET A LETTER PUBLISHED IN NEWSWEEK?

[snip]

"If your letter bashes President Bush, the GOP oustide of John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, conservatives or conservative beliefs, and Christianity, we'll find room for your letter somewhere."

[Getready]

This error makes you realize how incomplete the reportage
we get from these professional "news" personnel can be.

Don't forget, they're in the business to make money.
Think of all the other errors they may make in reporting
different fact which cannot be substantiated or in issues that probably make
no major difference....This event happened to cost lots of
lives..I wonder if the army personnel can sue Newsweek
for defamation of character, or if the Pentagon can sue
them also...I would doubt it, since they work for the public,
doing things the general public can't, or won't do.

Newsweek should lose more readership on this one, big time.

[AmericanChef]

You don't sound like the type of person who gives a rip about the dead except to recite shallow statistics like:

1622 Americans killed.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

It's not like their "bad intel" got 1622 Americans killed.

1622 Americans for how many millions freed?

What have you done lately to improve the lot of the oppressed? Sounds like you prefer mass graves and the torture chambers.

[Lazamataz]

14. HOW CAN I GET NEWSWEEK TO STOP LYING ABOUT NEARLY EVERYTHING?

[Lazamataz]

I looked at your posting history. You look like one of those 'so far to the right that I just became a leftist' types.

[Lazamataz]

Hang on for a tick. I note that even with this very old screen name, you only recently began posting.

Deep-sleeper troll?

[Cyber Liberty]

I suppose you've seen the troll's posts? Pretty rabid Bush/Pubbie-hater if you ask me (which I noticed that you did not).

[Lando Lincoln]

I, too, enjoyed your profile.

minus_273.......name's not Kelvin, is it?? (No need to answer.....) ;>)

Lando

[beandog]

I guess you had nothing better to do than stop by and recite DNC talking points. I think you should go back into lurking mode until you have somthing more intelligent to say.

[CaptSkip]

If the "Muslim Street" refuses to believe the false agitprop reported as confirmed fact by "Newsweak", you'll likely see a HUGE number of deaths of American soldiers and citizens that will likely be tracked-back to Isakoff and Newsweek's lies.

[Howlin]

Yep.....yep..........sleeper.

[Kerretarded]

Big Government EVERYWHERE is the enemy. Stop swallowing their lies.

What lies do you think we are swallowing here exactly?

It's not like their "bad intel" got 1622 Americans killed.

Oh, you mean like above lie that you swallowed? Pretty classless to keep track of the number of Americans killed. You still don't get it. Iraq IS tied to the War on Terror. Our presense in Iraq right now is a GOOD thing.

Funny that two out of your three examples happened under DEMOCRAT Presidents and the Uzbekistan example is incredibly weak.

Go home, troll!

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Say what now? You bring up US Deaths in Iraq/Afghanistan, then throw in the non-sequitor about Uzbekistan & China? Apples and Oranges. You were shedding crocodile tears about the loss of 1622 US military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, but REFUSE to balance that loss against those deaths, Al Quada is on the ropes, and MILLIONS of people (Iraq and Afghanistan) have been liberated.

The 1622 deaths was on the topic of Iraq & Afghanistan. You brought it up. I simply answered that silly assertion of yours and you can't even stick to the same topic. Typical poorly educated liberal debating tactic.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

You're the one that keeps expanding the argument to non-sequitors. You brought up the 1622 deaths, but REFUSE to acknowledge what was accomplished due to those deaths. We have a much safer world - terrorists regimes of Afghanistan and Iraq are history, MILLIONS liberated and as a side benefit, Qaddafi has renounced his weapons program. I don't think this war is "insane". Clearly you like mass graves, and terrorists regimes.

I never said one had to be a Conservative to support the war.

[Lazamataz]

No, I don't post often. I only joined because someone told me it's a conservative site. Was I in for a shock!

Politics is not a straight line, it is a circle. If you go sufficiently far to the right -- like ol' Pat "Why Kill Hitler?" Buchanan -- you end up on the left.

Y'all go ahead and whoop it up for your Beloved Leader and his war against the Constitution. If you get what you ask for, you deserve it.

Bovine Scatology. I'm often quite critical of this President and Republicans in general, but it's all a matter of how you do it -- and how much by way of conservative credentials you've already 'banked'.

And it doesn't help to be a Buchananesque So-Far-Right-I'm-Leftist type.

[Kerretarded]

Who woulda thunk such an innocent, little thread would have brought out a sleeper.

Cool!