Posted on 05/17/2005 11:35:15 AM PDT by JZelle
Flash: Newseek has apologized. The magazine's editor says he is sorry for printing a possibly "mistaken" article that accused U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo of throwing copies of the Koran into prisoners' toilets. Evidently, Newsweek particularly regrets the murderous anti-American rioting the erroneous report set off in various parts of the Muslim world. Ironic though it may seem, we might just owe Newsweek a debt of gratitude for its shoddy reportage. After all, it provided a wake-up call to see how quickly and how skillfully our enemies seized upon evidence of American purported hostility to Islam to advance their own agenda.
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Newsweek sorry for printing lies and deceiving people that resulted in 15 deaths? yeah, right! (big sarc)
And the offices of Newsweek.
Man, for a minute I thought that was Springsteen with a shaved head. I wonder if the boss is a sleeper. It would make since.
Well said!!
LOL! Well, the "boss" sure isn't known for his support of the WOT.
I can tell you that when Bush met with CAIR's ambassadors of "the religion of peaceTM" right after 9/11, not once but twice, none of them looked remotely like Springsteen.
This generation of MSM "reporters" have a lot to live up to.
Look, the American media were such a prized asset for the North Vietnamese Communists that their top general (General Giap) wrote in his biography that they were his most valuable guerrilla.*
Today's MSM "reporters" are just a little clumsy, that's all. Not everyone can be as smooth as a Walter Cronkite.
Pretty soon they'll have us handing victory to radical Islam no matter that -- just like Viet Nam -- our forces defeated the enemy every time on the battlefield.
Problem is, this time it's for all the marbles.
* So I was told. I saw the statement in a translation of a French TV interview with the General.
P.S. I soon learned to skip Newsweek during the Viet Nam war years, too much like the TV networks. Time and U.S. News were far, far better at real reporting. The best I can tell from rare visits to the barbers they both are pretty pathetic excuses for news magazines today compared to the old days.
I just want a toilet like that. Mine barely flushes toilet paper. This Cuban one can take regular paper. What a miracle! I have to have one of those. I did not know we could manufacture such things.
This was part of the campaign to kill America by 10,000 paper-cuts that the MSM leftists are involved in.
Newsweaks error was not that they hurt us... their error was that the underestimated how much damage this story would do. They want to incite the muslims and cause American soldiers deaths... just not all at once. They were shooting for a cherrybomb and got a MOAB.
If they are sorry, it not because they hurt America this much, it is because they hurt us this much in one shot, and made their plan obvious.
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