Mornin' Sam,
Excellent post. You saved me a much longer post. :)
If I may add:
The Moslem countries believe in a one-man rule. By implication, the MSM is playing the angle: Bush "ordered" Newsweek to retract the story.
The illiterate masses are being played like a fiddle by the MSM. If these masses could think for a second about their own tyrants they will find out that the press under a tyrant couldn't have possibly printed anything like this without permission, an oxymoron at best.
Our MSM are exploiting the Moslem crowds’ ignorance in a bid to keep the story alive under the guise of "an intellectual discussion to get to the truth", something they never have to "retract".
Our MSM are exploiting the Moslem crowds’ ignorance in a bid to keep the story alive under the guise of "an intellectual discussion to get to the truth", something they never have to "retract".Exactly. Our MSM is doing exactly what the Arab press does, keep the heat off Islamic tyrants by pointing the finger at all those "bad guy western imperialists".
But remember, it's not just the MSM. There are Arabists, leftists and communist in the State Department and other branches of government. This story didn't start with Newsweek. It was fed to them by a traitor who, by the way, is getting oodles of perks and pay at tax payer expense.