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!
Unless she's moved in the last week or so, Robin Wright is with the Washington Post - the owners of Newsweek. She came to the WAPO from the LA Slimes in the past year. She fits right in with the WAPO bunch - Dana Priest, Dana Milbank, Ceci Connelly, etc., etc.. Liberal pukes all.
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