Newsweek's nightmares (Newsweek slapped hard by Powerline)

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[RJL]

Yet another example of the numerous layers of MSM editors and fact checkers that the bloggers just don't have.

/Sarcasm

[auzerais]

For my part, I plan to take the subscription cards out of EVERY newsleak magazine at my local newsstand and mail them back to newsleak with the words
Newsweek LIED, people DIED! on them.
Let's see if newsleak gets the message when thousands of these cards get delivered to their offices.

I also am very angry at both NewsWatch on FoxNews and CNN's Reliable Reports, neither of which even mentioned a word about this newsleak debacle nor about cBS' twisting of Ken Starr's words to make it appear he supported the Dims, re the 'nuclear option'.

[Arpege92]

"I wasn't dumb enough to believe I could flush a book down a toilet."

Excellent point you've made. I didn't think about it but who in their right mind would try and flush a Quran down a toilet?

[NCLaw441]

I don't think I'd kill anyone over it, but if someone abused the Bible with the intention that I get angry and provoked, they might get their wish...

[sgtbono2002]

I disagree wholeheartedly. I dont know if it was a panicky statement or not the man who said it is totally correct, That sonofabitch Isikoff got people killed. Newsweek got people killed. and not only that they set back the American agenda in Afghanistan by a year at least. Now I call that negligent homicide and treason. I fully believe the story was printed to harm the United States of America. They knew it would, and they printed it. Thats treason in anybody's book.

[Txsleuth]

Good point about Foxwatch not mentioning this or the Ken Starr debacle---they are both media bungles....and that is supposed to be a show ABOUT the media...

But, they like to have the little twit Neil Gabler rag on Bush Adminstration every week and neither of those stories would look BAD on Bush....ugh

[Txsleuth]

There is a guy on Fox right now a Steve Greer, an ex Green Beret that is on to remark about this Newsweek story and his response is:

Why are we giving them Korans in Gitmo anyway? He said that they get their energy from the Koran--he said a bed and 3 square meals a day is ALL they should get---then he said that we should actually be giving them BIBLES, so they can learn a different way ...

[bvw]

Yes it's close to treason. But it is not, and if we blame Newsweek our enemies will see us as even more weak and self-conflicted. We have to hold those responsible for the murders and violence fully responsible. We have to hold those mullahs who preach hate before a bloddthirsty crowd to full account. By blaming Newsweek we do not hold those actually responsible to full account and we also by that eating our own -- gift aid and comfort to our enemies. That -- that is the greater treason.

[cloud8]

"If flushing a Koran down a toilet..."

I wouldn't want to clog my toilet. (Not that I'd allow a Koran in the house.)

Sharon goes up on the Temple Mount and "provokes" an uprising. Newsweek reports this non-story, and the hordes go crazy. I don't believe it for a minute. The Mohammadans riot, detonate themselves, etc., according to what their fanatical leaders tell them.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Substitute Ann Coulter,Tom DeLay or Halliburton as the authors of the Periscope piece and there would be a Congressional and media conflagration.
The calls for investigations and prosecutions would be deafening.

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Hi Sleuth,

Can you believe this? It is all over the net.

[Cicero]

I disagree with you. When you tell a lie that angers fanatics who then proceed to kill people, you share part of the blame. This is true of anyone. It is worse than shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.

But what is true of any individual is far more true of a person in the media who has the power to spread such an inflamatory lie far and wide, inspiring riots and killings all over the world, plus further hatred of America.

Even worse, Evan Thomas starts telling MORE inflamatory lies even while he is pretending to apologize.

As for Michael Isakoff, he is one of the worst liars at Newsweak. He built a strong reputation for serial lying during the clinton years.

[auzerais]

AlQaeda's own handbook says to their own terrorists to provoke accusations of this kind of outrageous behavior by making crap like this up. So, if anyone flushed a Koran down the toilet, it was one of the detainees themselves, while trying to blame the US.

And Newsweek, of course, willingly fell for this anti-US propaganda -- hook, line and sinker.

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[awaken2spirit]

This is the email I sent to Newsweek...

To the editing and writing staff of Newsweek,

 

Congratulations on your publication in Periscope concerning Korans being flushed down toilets by U.S. interrogators and your subsequent apology, stating that this story may have not been supported by fact. Congratulations again, for the deaths and rioting resulting from your due diligence and journalistic integrity in reporting this story. Congratulations for providing the Moslem world with more fodder, which will be used to recruit more jihadists to kill the infidels. Congratulations for any future deaths of Americans and others in the world that will result from your loose-lipped arrows of truth. Congratulations on your apology, which comes after arrow has left bow and the damage that results cannot be undone. Thank you so much for being sorry. You, of all people should know that words are a powerful weapon, and once they have been unleashed, they cannot be called back no matter how sorry you claim to be. Aside from the deaths and riots your journalistic work has already accomplished, congratulations also for this:

 

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- A group of Afghan Muslim clerics have threatened to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran.

The warning on Sunday came after 16 Afghans were killed and more than 100 hurt last week in the worst anti-U.S. protests across the country since U.S. forces invaded in 2001 to oust the Taliban for sheltering Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.

The clerics in the northeastern province of Badakhshan said they wanted U.S. President George W. Bush to handle the matter honestly "and hand the culprits over to an Islamic country for punishment."

"If that does not happen within three days, we will launch a jihad against America," said a statement issued by about 300 clerics, referring to Muslim holy war, after meeting in the main mosque in the provincial capital, Faizabad.

It’s fun to play God. Don’t you agree?

Jonh Major

El Dorado, CA

[JasonC]

Ask for federal funding and call it art.

[Dog]

So Isikoff relied on a telephone call with an anonymous government official paraphrasing a forthcoming report, confirmed by placing a draft of the Periscope item before another anonymous government official. Isikoff never saw the underlying report or even had it read to him.

Just stunning.. he didn't even read the report..and then paraphrased the report.... I'm speechless.

Spikey needs to pay for this one......can't say oops....lets have a do over.

Newsweek has blood on their hands.

[anton]

. . between their legs on a bad week of the month.

[hipaatwo]

Great letter. I'll be calling them Monday.

[seawitch1261]

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Letters@newsweek.com
Editors@newsweek.com
WebEditors@newsweek.com

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Very good e-mail.