Posted on 05/17/2005 10:55:48 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Hogwash!
These are the same people who complain about the "outrageous" amount of money spent investigating Bill Clinton's multiple felonies, yet they have no problem asking some government worker to slog through 25,000 pages of classified documents so they can fill a couple of inches of magazine space.
The guy is dead right to concentrate on the muslims. Isikoff didn't kill anyone. He is guilty of something mind you, but he didn't actually murder anybody.
The muslims aren't trained chimps: they have free will and are ultimately responsible for their own actions.
Newsweek knows better. And they have an agenda that is anti-coinservative and anti-military. The proof is in the history. When was the last time that an MSM outlet did a story based on lies that hurt a liberal or democrat?
There has been a pattern of lying by the MSM that has been consistant and pervasive for the last two years. One has to wonder how many stories where the MSM has lied and not been caught.
Unfortunately one of the pillars of democracy is a reliable and honest press and we simply no longer have one.
Perfect!
Actually I think he and Newsweek are guilty of Manslaughter and if the dead peoples family enter into the us court system Newsweek and WAPO, will no longer exist in 5 years.
Militant Islam or Islamofacists are violent, they need no excuse to attack and kill and indulge savage barbaric tendencies.
Naturally, Newsweek provides a good reason to indulge these tendencies. They saw an opportunity to embarrass the Bush administration and also target a source of left wing hate while getting a scoop. However, they are not the real folks to blame, militant islam is.
Am I correct in this summary so far?
If I am, this akin to someone telling a violent psychopath that someone killed his family.
Then blaming the violent psychopath for killing the people he was told did it, and saying the person who told him, is not the main issue or important and we're losing sight of the point.
I'm sorry but that is unacceptable.
The author misses the point. The MSM has been purposely trying to instigate exactly this kind of reaction from militant Islamists since about a week after 9/11. Now that they've finally succeeded, the chickens are coming home to roost. Militant Islam is the fire, yes, but the MSM has been pouring gasoline all over it for years purposefully to achieve this very result.
I agree with the author.
Salve for the mind-f_ _k they give you... day in and day out.
Dear mr. smug delusion- No one is giving militant islam a pass. To let newsweek off the hook simply because the rabid buffons over there are just going to get mad over something or other anyway is silly. Realize here and now that some people are capable of becoming the hanging judge of both the imbeciles whose negligence trigger the violence AND the societal dysfunction that allows this grade of offense to trigger so cataclysmic a reaction. It is really not that difficult to do. Militant islam is to blame for the riots and the murders. Newsweek is to blame for the false report.
But any pretense to bash the liberal press is a good one!
To be fair, I don't think McCarthy missed that point; he simply emphasized others--otherwise unmentionable others. (Love your tagline!)
Hear, hear! McCarthy has it _exactly_ right.
There are two seperate and unrelated points. One: Newsweek told a lie to embarrass the President and the military. Two: Islamists are so stupid they riot over a rumor. They will never dig themselves out of poverty and ignorance as long as they practice this mindless and stupid form of Islam.
By entitled his pap filled article as he has done, he is clearly missing the point.
No. Not "nothing more." Newsweek cannot pretend ignorance of the consequences for their reckless act. Even the tabloids wouldn't stoop to this.
That was your take on the article.
My take on the article is from this sentence ... "The reason for the carnage here was, and is, militant Islam. Nothing more." In other words we are wasting our time wailing and gnashing teeth over News weak, when we should be moaning and groaning about terrorists.
Again, the two have absolutely nothing, nil, zip, zero, nada to do with each other.
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