[Nita Nupress]

I hate to be a stick in the mud (okay, I'm lying... no I don't), but where is the good ol' conservative attitude of making rioters responsible for the riot and murderers responsible for the murder?

It's still the same principle, isn't it? How is saying Newsweek is responsible for the deaths any different from saying that video games incite violence?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Remember your Shakespeare? -- Who was the real villain in the play Othello -- Othello the murderer, or the man who egged him to do it, Iago?

Newsweek acting like Iago. They are complicit.

[swilhelm73]

It's still the same principle, isn't it? How is saying Newsweek is responsible for the deaths any different from saying that video games incite violence?

Certainly the Islamists killing people bear primary responsibility, but I don't think that Newsweek can be absolved from blame - they knew what printing this would do, and *at best* didn't care if their claims were true or not.

[Guenevere]

#207..I don't remember you being this contrary??

Get with the program :^)

[al_again]

Say 10 times - I will think before I post!

[ex 98C MI Dude]

How many times has a video game caused riots in the streets, resulting in death? Not a one. There have been a few cases of 'the game (or Twinkies) made me do it' defenses in murder trials, but not one has been credible. The cause of these riots is the Newsweek story (as the riots were not occurring prior to this on this issue, so this is a case of mass hysteria caused by unbelievably stupid reporting), now shown to be bogus. The rioters are calling for the death of those 'responsible' for the desecration of the Queer'an; desecration that didn't occur as reported. Granting that these rioters were seeking a reason to kill people, how does that exonerate the 'reporters' that didn't fact check a story that they knew would inflame passions of the Arab 'street'? It doesn't.

[Cboldt]

... where is the good ol' conservative attitude of making rioters responsible for the riot and murderers responsible for the murder?

Or the guy who walks up to the bully and says "Your mother wears army boots." Obviously, the guy throwing the taunt is to blame for what follows.

To be sure, 'tis not wise to taunt a bully. And equally sure, Newsweek is despicable, biased, and out to bring a black eye on Western civ and the current administration. I don't have any sympathy for an idiot who taunts a bully, but I blame the bully for the beating.

The analysis is much different in this case too, because the liar is sending the bully to beat up some innocent dupe.