Need to go after both.
Loaded guns still require someone or something to pull the trigger.
You mean Daniel Pearl wasn't executed because that liar President Bush invaded Iraq?
He makes a good (and corect) point. You gotta hand it to even stupid liberals when they occasionally get it right.
Yes, yes, yes!! This is the crux--not sloppy, or even fallacious, reporting! Thank you, Mr. McCarthy and xsysmgr! And it might be a good idea, too, Mr. Bozell, NOT to continue to belabor Newsweek's bias. They're just leftist enough to pull out witnesses.
If you have a psychotic murderous lunatic in your attic, it's definitely not your fault if he kills you, but that doesn't mean you should go up there and poke him with a stick.
Hogwash!
The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Terrorists of any nationality, race or creed need physical extermination.
Reporters who lie to the American public and any organization that succors them need to be removed from their positions of "trust".
Sane talk from the National Review.
THAT'S THE FREAKING POINT. Everytime a conservative thinks something or does something, the left caterwauls that it's going to lead to death, destruction, and perpetuate the cycle of (insert travesty here).
In this instance, Newsweek actually DID lie and people actually DID die. George W. Bush has ALWAYS acted in good faith and all he gets is these mindless protests. Well, how does it feel?
There's a problem here.
WRONG!
We have more than ONE problem.
1) Islamofascism
2) Hate-mongering media.
3) #2 giving #1 a pass.
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.
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.
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!
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.