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Newsweek Officially Retracts Story

Posted on 05/16/2005 2:02:57 PM PDT by kcvl

Per Fox News...


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To: kcvl
Too bad they won't fire their brand name Isikoff. Maybe they'll opt for lifetime subscriptions for the families of the dead as restitution -- yeah, that'll make it all right.

-PJ

101 posted on 05/16/2005 2:28:10 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: jongaltsr

NewsWeek needs to get a healthy dose of being dixie Chicked!


102 posted on 05/16/2005 2:28:36 PM PDT by LYSandra
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To: RobFromGa

you forgot about 1,000 other things


103 posted on 05/16/2005 2:28:55 PM PDT by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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To: jveritas

Yes... and.. Bring Mike Isadumb$h!t over for a visit of the locals and a " I'm sorry tour " !!!


104 posted on 05/16/2005 2:29:05 PM PDT by Deetes (Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick)
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To: jveritas
Then it looks like WaPo left a few billion dollars on the table for ambitious lawyers to pick up.
105 posted on 05/16/2005 2:30:19 PM PDT by Milhous
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To: kcvl
It's their hubris that is bringing them down, one by one.

They did everything in their power to get effn Kerry elected and that didn't work so they'll go down trying to prove that they were right and we were wrong for re-electing President Bush.

106 posted on 05/16/2005 2:30:26 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: kcvl; All

If wartime censorship had been in place Newsweek, its corporate parent The Washington Post, all affiliated publications and its broadcasting properties would have been confiscated by now.

Moreover, any writer or editor who had a part in this story would be tried for treason and punished at level commensurate with his or her involvement. Coporate officers and Board members would also be subject to prosecution.

Anyone here interested in demanding Wartime Censorship? For a young and eager conservative politician, this is an initiative that could be a reputation-maker.


107 posted on 05/16/2005 2:31:20 PM PDT by MaryInSacto
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To: sully777
FoxNews this morning: Some metrosexual sweating "We stand by our false story. We're sorry some people died. Their families are in our thoughts..."

I was listening to the radio in the car this morning and during one of the newsbreaks the announcer said that the federal government was looking for a retraction of the story. I wonder WHO the hammer was and WHAT was said. To be a fly on the wall...

108 posted on 05/16/2005 2:31:27 PM PDT by StrictTime (Shameless BUMP for Taglinus FreeRepublicus!!)
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To: jveritas

I agree with you. On another thread, I got slightly flamed for saying victims' families should sue Newsweek.

Just a page from the ACLU and liberals' book, a dose of their own medicine, sue Newsweek into oblivion!


109 posted on 05/16/2005 2:31:41 PM PDT by melancholy (There are no columnists in the MSM, only fifth columnists.)
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To: kcvl
I have talked to my "anonymous reliable sources" on the ground in the Middle East, and they all confirm that at least 100,000 innocent civilians were killed by Newsweek's reckless and irresponsible reporting.

Newsweek lied; People died!!

110 posted on 05/16/2005 2:32:07 PM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: OldFriend

Words of wisdom there. The VRWC doesn't have to do much more than let them skewer themselves, and then politely point it out. Or maybe not so politely.


111 posted on 05/16/2005 2:32:11 PM PDT by Enterprise (Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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To: rang1995
you forgot about 1,000 other things

So sue me. Or make your own list. /kidding

112 posted on 05/16/2005 2:32:27 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Enact Constitutional Option Now!)
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To: kcvl

Maybe those libbies can resurrect those dead students


113 posted on 05/16/2005 2:32:53 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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114 posted on 05/16/2005 2:33:12 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: melancholy

hmmm , good idea....
But seriously they should , and they would have to be protected of course.
But wouldn't that be a lovely scene!?
Media reps being shouted down and loudly blamed for lying...
How a refreshing .


115 posted on 05/16/2005 2:33:15 PM PDT by injin
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To: kcvl
At least they got THIS cover right ...


116 posted on 05/16/2005 2:33:37 PM PDT by AgThorn (Bush is my president, but he needs to protect our borders. FIRST, before any talk of "Amnesty.")
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To: dead
You have GOT to be kidding me.

Has DU decided to disbelieve the Earth is a globe, too? Isn't it easier to get those rigged voting machines across the planet if it's flat?

117 posted on 05/16/2005 2:33:40 PM PDT by Darkwolf (aka Darkwolf377 (lurker since'01, member since 4/'04)--stop clogging me with pings!)
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To: kcvl
Isikoff is also the man who sat on the Monica story until Drudge's reporting forced him and Newsweak to move on it.

Wasn't he also the person who pooh-poohed the story that Muhammed Atta had met up with Iraqi agents in Prague just weeks before the 9/11?

118 posted on 05/16/2005 2:33:54 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Scrappleface beat you to the subscription suggestion!


119 posted on 05/16/2005 2:35:08 PM PDT by Boston Tea Party
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To: OldFriend

CNN's Frank Sesno says NEWSWEEK has handled this extremely well. But he says, NEWSWEEK will have to investigate to see how this happened. Wolf Blitzer reminds viewers that NEWSWEEK originally said they had sources (plural), but now they say there was only one source. Like in the case of Oklahoma City bombing when law enforcement was looking for 2 middle eastern types...that information was wrong. That's what happened here. Newweek wasn't wrong, their source was. (From Sesno)


120 posted on 05/16/2005 2:35:29 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@The Democrats Must Live In Fear When Howard Dean and/or Harry Reid Take The Mike.com)
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