Posted on 05/16/2005 2:02:57 PM PDT by kcvl
Per Fox News...
You forgot the obligatory use of the term "people", as in "It's 1933 all over again, people! We'd better get out in the streets and start the revolution, before The Chimp declares martial law."
Great! I haven't found much use for the word "schadenfreude" for oh...about six months now!
I don't think anyone has yet posted the Newsweak Editor's note on this thread:
The Editor's Desk
NewsweekMay 23 issue -
Did a report in NEWSWEEK set off a wave of deadly anti-American riots in Afghanistan? That's what numerous news accounts suggested last week as angry Afghans took to the streets to protest reports, linked to us, that U.S. interrogators had desecrated the Qur'an while interrogating Muslim terror suspects. We were as alarmed as anyone to hear of the violence, which left at least 15 Afghans dead and scores injured. But I think it's important for the public to know exactly what we reported, why, and how subsequent events unfolded.
Two weeks ago, in our issue dated May 9, Michael Isikoff and John Barry reported in a brief item in our Periscope section that U.S. military investigators had found evidence that American guards at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had committed infractions in trying to get terror suspects to talk, including in one case flushing a Qur'an down a toilet. Their information came from a knowledgeable U.S. government source, and before deciding whether to publish it we approached two separate Defense Department officials for comment. One declined to give us a response; the other challenged another aspect of the story but did not dispute the Qur'an charge.
The Islamic World: How a Fire Broke Out
Although other major news organizations had aired charges of Qur'an desecration based only on the testimony of detainees, we believed our story was newsworthy because a U.S. official said government investigators turned up this evidence. So we published the item. After several days, newspapers in Pakistan and Afghanistan began running accounts of our story. At that point, as Evan Thomas, Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai report this week, the riots started and spread across the country, fanned by extremists and unhappiness over the economy.
Last Friday, a top Pentagon spokesman told us that a review of the probe cited in our story showed that it was never meant to look into charges of Qur'an desecration. The spokesman also said the Pentagon had investigated other desecration charges by detainees and found them "not credible." Our original source later said he couldn't be certain about reading of the alleged Qur'an incident in the report we cited, and said it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts. Top administration officials have promised to continue looking into the charges, and so will we. But we regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst.
—Mark Whitaker
After they've done their damage.
I think Mr. Isikoff and company fit the profile for "unlawful combatants," and should spend an extended vacation in Camp X-Ray. Perhaps they can use their time in stir to adequately verify or disprove their next "Big Bad EE-VIL American Atrocity" story...
Most of the liberals are a bunch of cowards and even if it happens, the mullahs will tell people not to believe the retraction because they want to incite the wild crowds.
The cat is out of the bag, unfortunately.
But they still believe it's true.
Isakoff and Whitaker should be fired.
Yeah, I can see why they stick up for Newsweak.
They probably also defended Dan Rather.
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"It doesn't have to be true for those crazies to believe it."
Exactly.. it doesn't matter if it's true or not. What matters is that they reported it in the first place.
They could have reported that Americans eat ground up bones from muslim babies in their breakfast cereal and millions over there would probably believe it.
Probably. Liberal as Isikoff is, he's the best reporter at Newsweek.
Someone needs to send Isikoff some real toilet paper, like this: 
How many dead is his job worth?
Gregory J. Osberg
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-PJ
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