I knew that this story was false, but we didn't feel a retraction was necesary. Did you think I didn't know that ?
Posted on 05/16/2005 2:02:57 PM PDT by kcvl
Per Fox News...
Andrew Sullivan isn't talking about Newsweak's policies, he's talkiing about our previous policies as in the U.S. govt's previous policies (as if Abu Graib was according to policy).
It would be too bad if oh, say a malt were to accidently fall on every rack of gnuzweak in the country. Good use for a malt!
Pull the press pass at NEWSWEAK.
I knew that this story was false, but we didn't feel a retraction was necesary. Did you think I didn't know that ?
Un-something...
The garbage truck driver saw the pregnant woman step off the curb into the crosswalk just in time to bury the brake pedal and bring his near-full truck to a holwing, rubber-smoking stop mere inches from her wide-eyed face. Simultaneously relieved and angry, the red-faced driver stuck his head out the window and shouted,
"Ya know, ya can get knocked DOWN, too, Lady!!"
So you're saying there's been no change from their usual state of mind?
It's pretty funny over there. Some call DU the libbie version of FR, or FR the conservative version of DU. But really, DU is the lefty version of a skinhead website.
ABC now has it up...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=762643
IOW, "fake but accurate", updated for the post-election world.
Every time I glance that site, I remind myself that liberalism in its modern form is evil.
I believe you have pegged it correctly.
I'm still in shock over some the post I read there. Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.
blaming Newsweek for the actions of a bunch of insane muslims seems to me to make the case that they are not responsible for their own actions.
ABC... Now has this up....
May 16, 2005 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newsweek on Monday retracted a report that claimed U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran, which triggered days of rioting in Afghanistan and other countries in which at least 16 people were killed.
"Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay," Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker said in a statement.
The White House on Monday challenged the accuracy of Newsweek's May 9 report which was based on an anonymous source and said it had damaged the U.S. image overseas.
The Pentagon said an investigation remained open into allegations contained in the Newsweek report.
Whitaker apologized on Sunday to the victims of the protests and said the magazine had inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Muslim holy book down the toilet.
"The report has had serious consequences," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "People have lost their lives. The image of the United States abroad has been damaged."
Whenever I start to think I may be overreacting in my hatred for the left I drop by DU. I feel like the nicest person! A more willfully ignorant (the willfully part is key), more hateful bunch you'll never find.
The damage to America's image is done and the ire of Muslims towards us has been upped.
Well, you have to give them credit. They claimed that President Bush's policies would produce more violence and terrorism agaist the U.S. and when that didn't happen they figured out how to take care of that little problem all by themselves. It's probably the only independent, creative thing the Demos and their Media Comrades have done in the past twenty years.
Mighty fine barbecue you-all got going on here. :)
"The damage to America's image is done and the ire of Muslims towards us has been upped. "
What might they do? Fly planes into our buildings?
Extradit Isikoff and his editors to Afghanistant to be prosecuted for Negligent homicide. That is the rule of law and justice.
I know.
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