"Newsweek is guilty of pushing a false story they knew was unconfirmed but wanted to believe was true, and this time the result was tragic," said Bozell, who is also founder of the Cybercast News Service.
It's much worse than Rathergate. This one got people killed and has caused (and will cause) much more damage than Rather did.
I was flipping tbrough the channels last night on the way to FOX and stopped at MSNBC because Olberdouche was covering Newsweekgate. I don't know why I was suprised at what I heard, but was disgusted nonetheless. Olberdouche basically was taking the approach of "sure this story may have been retracted, but it abuse does happen at Gitmo, thus, this story could have been true and incidents like this probably did happen at some point."
Holy shit!!! Holy fake but accurate Batman!!! Still, that appears to be the approach the entire MSM is taking. The MSM is trying desparately to sweep this under the rug. Witness USA Today's front page. Splattered on its front page is a hit piece on the fillibuster showdown that is looming. Over on the side in significantly smaller print is: "Newsweek Retracts Story." Well, at least it made the front page, but it is still indicative of how fast the MSM wants to move on.
How exactly do you flush a book down a toilet? Are the toilets that different there that a book would fit down one?
Newsweek should have been very suspicious of this story to begin with.
It's like the obviously forged documents in Rathergate. Anyone looking at the facts with a reasonably critical eye is going to doubt the story and look for confirmation and a better explaination.
They didn't do that. It reaks of them knowing that the government can't disprove anonymous reports like this, so they felt they could get away with printing it if it were true or not.
They just underestimated the response from the Muslim world and are surprised that their little lie became a huge issue in which people died as a result.
So where are all those liberal trial lawyers demanding reparations in this case?