Posted on 05/15/2005 12:19:09 PM PDT by hipaatwo
If not for the story it wouldnt have happened , How can you not blame Newsweek? Placing the blame where it belongs doesnt have anything to do with 911. Isnt anyone else tired of these people writing stories for their sensationalism, to sell their sorry papers? How many died because the papers put Abu Gharib on the street, It was being handled in a perfectly capable manner before the papers decided to let the cat out of the bag. Journalism should require some type of responsibility. Freedom of speech isnt freedom to get people killed.
...and these b*stards complain about bloggers!
Pinko Wolf Blitzer think so. It's a non-issue.
Scuse me but Newsweek and other msm are the ones eating our own. If you think Newsweek didn't have an agenda by publishing this - you need to come out of the dark. This was not just an "oopsie". Our enemies in the ME are rabid dogs and with this type of propaganda can turn their fellow ignorant citizens into packs of rabid dogs. Newsweek knew this and should be persecuted..
Rumors are as good as hard news if it's going to cause trouble for a Republican Administration:-)
Well put!!!
Ideally, Isakoff should be handed over to an Islamic court and tried for the deaths of any people that have died as a result of this story.
Say what?
prosecuted.......well, maybe persecuted too. :o)
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Shakes head.
You don't throw a lit flare into a sea of gasoline, which is exactly what Newsweek did -- KNOWINGLY.
They WANT to incite anti-US violence, they WANT the US to LOSE, never mind how many people get killed, just to try to make President Bush look bad.
Just because someone may or may not have told them something, they have no obligation to print it. And there were quite a few times recently that we saw reporters totally making up things to support their agenda.
Newsweek is indeed responsible for the violence that errupted, as a direct result of their allegations, presented as facts.
As a lefty, he's from the school of thought that we can reason with those people.
Give him the opportunity to prove it:-)
It wasn't like throwing gas on a fire, it was like tossing a propane tank into a fire and shooting it with both barrels of a shotgun loaded with 00 buck!!
It seems the Taliban has been trying to spread this rumor for sometime and when it got reported by a US mag.......stand back, this isn't going to be good.
But it was Islamics who killed people, in the name of their moongod, not Newsweek.
If we blame Newsweek, then it opens the door to blaming America for 911.
The archer bears responsibility for the arrows that he looses from his bow, so how is it that Newsweek is not directly responsible for the ripples produced from the stone it has tossed?
Put in another way, am I not responsible if I yell fire in a crowded theater and people are subsequently trampled to death?
I feel positively prophetic.
Has anyone seen actual coverage by Al-Jazeera et al. on the story. I would suspect the (hostile) Arab press coverage would have been more than a line or two somewhere in the article.
fyi, this will make your blood boil
Take as a given that both Newsweek and the rioters are in the wrong. I say the principle is "stick and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me."
Or using the toss a match into gasoline analogy ... how can one justify the pool of gasoline represented by the ready-to-rioters? A match is not a bad thing, per se, it takes both, the match and the gasoline to make havoc.
Put in another way, am I not responsible if I yell fire in a crowded theater and people are subsequently trampled to death?
Indeed. But are you responsible for your injuries if you walk up to a bully and tell him his mother wears army boots? Not saying it's smart to do so, just wondering if you are, or if the bully is responsible for the resulting injuries.
There is NO crime in throwing a koran in a toilet. NONE. It is not illegal. It's un-pc, that's it.
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