I think Washington Post owns them.
Isnt Eleanor Clift one of the editorialists?
On MSNBC right on KO's Countdown he and Craig Crawford are saying Newsweek was setup by the White House.
Never walk toward a bucket of crap with blind hatred in your eyes. You might fall in it.
I usually check out the babes on the covers while purchasing my groceries. Who, in their right mind, would buy a leftist news rag that's a week old - or more?
Did you watch Hardball, before KO's show?
I knew that Chrissy would be heartbroken that Newsweek wouldn retract the story...but, what I did see made me furious.
First, he mentioned at the first of the show that NBC and Newsweek have an "intenet" agreement or somesuch...half-assed disclaimer.
Anyway, he had all libs of course, Robin Wright of NYT, some lib ex-CIA buy, I think, and this youngish looking guy (don't remember his name), that was supposed to be some kind of terrorism expert...
Well, Chrissy was clucking his tongue about the hoopla the article has caused and during some point in the conversatation that terrosism expert said something like, "using religious persecution never was a good thing to do, and as you can tell FROM THIS INCIDENT, using religious persecution has deadly consequences." That was a paraphrase, but it was enough for me---
The whole point is that this was a made up story, and Chris has this guy on talking about how wrong it is for the military to USE this religious persecution---Chris didn't correct him...
Instead, he turned to Robin Wright and asked her what she thought, and she gave a long explanation that back in 2003 there WAS a report that this happened and people HAD known, and blah, blah, blah---IOW, the whole show was a CYA for Newsweek!
I think the people at Newsweek responsible for this ought to be on a plane right now to go tell the mob/rioters/protestors in Afghanistan that they're the ones who screwed up and they're really, really sorry. I know it won't happen, but it would be nice if it did.
Oh...it gets better.
They are owned by WaPost. They are featured by MSNBC/NBC news web sites.
Add to that....NY Times who works quite a bit with the WAPost.....
It is easy to see how they all run the same hit pieces on conservatives.
They all work together to push a liberal agenda.
I'm expecting a major media effort to assert that the story is really true, even though it's been retracted.
It is mind boggling.....but the fact is we are winning....more and more American's are starting to see completely through the MSM (and the MSM continues to whistle by the grave yard and act like it isn't happening....but it is!!).
Maybe someone here can enlighten me. It appears obvious that whether or not Newsweek's folks got the story RIGHT (viz., one or more interrogator "dissing" the Koran), Newsweek--once allied or American deaths were linked to that line in the story--would have little choice about whether or not to retract. No retraction, more deaths (not that a simple retraction is going to halt the violence on the same issue, but NW could conveniently wash its hands after the retraction). And tho it's clear that some "journalists" don't mind bloody hands, allowing the violence to continue or spread based on their "report" would, one would think, expose them to enormous pressure from readers and other publishers.
For argument's sake, tho, suppose the allegation was false. Why did DOD fail to notice the line and challenge Newsweek IMMEDIATELY through other channels instead of waiting for the deaths to mount?
Is it possible that no one (DOD, various media, including NW) here believed that the mere mention of "desecration" of a book could cause such havoc? And having learned that it DID, why were "we" unanimous in blaming NW rather than the rioters?
NBC Nightly News spun this as the fault of the Pentagon, for not originally telling Islamikoff that the story was false.
Seems to me that the father of the editor of Newsweek ran for president on either the Socialist or the Communist ticket.
I'll have to look back through some old notes to confirm that...