Posted on 05/17/2005 4:34:22 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Excellent analysis, IMO.
Have you heard any of the talking heads make this point? Guess they don't think we peons have enough sense to know this. The whole concept is laughable.
This may be the most pathetic example of viciously biased "reporting" I've heard yet. NBC and Today richly deserve to lose whatever little audience they have left.
The U.S. military should kick the NBC reporter who made that report right out of Iraq, it sounds like he's fomenting unrest. But NBC's screaming about censorship would be heard around the world, of course.
Did he actually ask the Newsweek guy this, or did he wait until the guy was gone so he couldn't be refuted?
Great post and right on!
I dub him Ma'hat bin-Lauerdin.
Ask Matt Liar how many times he and the TODAY show have been pressured by the White House to drop a story and how many times they dropped it.
Why would Liar think that Newsweek would fold to such WH pressure? Ask Matt why he just crucified Newsweek and called them cowards for folding to WH pressure.
"the NBC reporter who made that report right out of Iraq - sounds like he's fomenting unrest."
Absolutely.
Asked it to his face.
None of them thought about how ridiculous the statement was on its face, because they have no idea of the size differential, and they don't have the foggiest idea how a toilet works!!
The interrogation log describes "tear out page, wad, place in toilet, flush occasionally, repeat as necessary." At the end of the process, "The Koran" has been flushed.
Perhaps we can start a campaign.....FLUSH THE TODAY SHOW DOWN THE TOILET
Simple. They've completely lost their mainstream, middle-of-the-road viewers.
They now cater to the Democrat Underground barking-moonbat crowd.
If the story has been floating around for two years, as Crawford is saying, how can he say this administration might have made it up to set Newsweek up with?
and
The premise of Crawford's book is how politicians demonize the media, distracting people from the news itself. Imus is not buying what Craiggy poo is selling. And I don't either!!! Politicians didn't make up Jason Blair and Dan Rather, Imus says.
"Is anyone RELIEVED that the story is not true, or at the very, very least, unsubstantiated? Apparently not, in the MSM.
Imagine a US media outlet doing this during WWII."
I shudder to think...
After he had already said the White House didn't influence them?
Gen. Myers told reporters in Washington that Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, the head of U.S. Southern Command, has "been in Guantanamo for the last couple of days digging into this issue to see if there was a time when the Koran was not respected.""They have looked through the logs, the interrogation logs, and they cannot confirm yet that there was ever the case of the toilet incident," Gen. Myers said.
He did note "a log entry, which they still have to confirm, where a detainee was reported by a guard to be ripping pages out of a Koran and putting them in a toilet to stop it up as a protest," he said. "But not where the U.S. did it."
Koran flushing not confirmed - Guy Taylor - Wash. Times - May 13, 2005
Mah'at bin-Lauerdin isn't interested in reporting.
Mah'at bin-Lauerdin is only interested in perpetuating a meme and causing another jihad.
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