Posted on 05/16/2005 2:02:57 PM PDT by kcvl
Per Fox News...
Unnamed sources again? Shocking.
Unnamed sources lie early and often. If there are people with an inclination to believe and if there is damage to be done, you can be sure that these unnamed sources will be showing up at a MSM affiliate nearest you.
Sat on the story even after he'd listened to the Lewinsky-Tripp tapes, but goes with a rumor that hadn't been proven.
So, can we now officially say that Newsweek is officially to blame for more Muslim deaths that all of the guards at Abu-Graib combined?
FREEPERS HAVE BEEN HOODWINKED. THIS KORAN/TOILET STORY IS A REHASH OF A PREVIOUS ARTICLE PRINTED IN THE WASHINGTON POST.
An American Expat in Southeast Asia: http://laotze.blogspot.com/ the story from the beginning and ongoing.
FReepers, don't let yourself be used, don't be good little dhimmies:
(SNIP) "So there you have it folks. The same story published in March of 2003 and yet there was no riots and killing over it. Fast forward to May of 2005 and the same story suddenly becomes the cause of deaths.
Is Newsweek responsible for the deaths or shall we blame the instigators and the rioters themselves who are using this crisis to manipulate not only public opinion but their own political agenda?
Hopefully an analysis and update of the entire drama as it unfolds later today."
"Okay, our bad. All you dead people can live again now, sorry for the inconvenience"
This pretty much sums it up...except they probably offered the victims families free 90 day suscriptions...
by Mike L. Easycough
Investigators probing Army Intelligence trickery on United States bases in England have confirmed some infractions alleged in internal FBI memos that surfaced late last year. Among the previously unreported cases, sources tell NEWSWEEK: Counter-Intelligence officials, in an attempt to rattle Adolph Hitler and the German High Command, have been broadcasting via radio, fake troop concentrations and movements in an attempt to hide from the Germans that the real invasion of Europe will occur at Normandy and not Calais as commonly believed. "We've even got them thinking Patton's going to lead the invasion," said the source.
Frank Sesno is a little Bolshevik. My nickname for him was always "the weasel." I also called Candy Crowley, "Elsie the Cow." I used to have nicknames for every CNN "reporter" back when they were the only game in town.
"our previous policies have made it perfectly plausible.' That's the deeper issue here...." Mark Whitaker, Newseek
- This is an amazing statement. Said another way, "our low journalistic standards make a false story plausable to the ignorant reader". - TheCrusader
True. But I think he was really trying to say "We've gotten away with it before. The big question is 'why didn't we get away with it this time?'"
Actually I think you guys are both wrong ( with due respect), I think he was trying to say that our previous policies....as in the United States' Previous Policies have made this plausible....basically the same bs reasoning that Dan Rather tried..
I think this is an important point. I think it points to the great frailty of the Mohammedan religion -- and the major reason for the intense frustration among its followers. It is fundamentally a very tangible religion, i.e. (apart from the "72 virgins" for their crazies), it's primary appeal is as a 'prosperity' religion. "Go through our little prayer rug rituals and the moon god will reward you in the here and now."
The problem, of course, is that the society with the greatest percentage of Christians is also the world's most materially successful and the Mohammedan nations, despite unprecendented natural resources (read, oil), are among the poorest and most backward.
In short, Mohammedanism isn't delivering (and never has) on its major promise. Much like the communists of yore, the only explanation (to its frenzied supporters) is some form of conspiratorial 'sabotage' by those pesky Christians. If they were only 'eliminated' all would function as it was supposed to. Thus, the Mohammedan 'fundamentalist' movement.
These are a people, a culture, who commit *an entire hand* to "unclean" things like wiping after a bowel movement. To claim Americans have taken their most holy book, believed by them to be directly written by God himself, and flushed it down the toilet is the social equivalent of an atomic bomb in D.C.
You can bet there will be no sharing of this retraction or that it will be spun as the Americans trying to hide the truth of their depravity and a thousand new Al Queda sympathizers have been born out of this false story.
I'm not sure anything can exact the kind of punishment such irresponsible "reporting" truly deserves. I won't shed a tear if Newsweek is lost.
I still say the Abu Ghraib perpetrators should be sentenced to death for treason. I'd so much like to have Iraq take a shot at charging them.
We just can't catch a break in the War on Terror!
Absent videotaped evidence and a public gov't admission, I wouldn't have run with it either.
Right on.
The toothpaste is out of the tube. The Jihadist provocateurs will simply spin Newsweek's "retraction" as the magazine's capitulation to pressure from the Bush Administration. And no matter how easily we might dismiss such allegations as whacko conspiracy tin-foilism, the other side of the world doesn't give a rat's behind what we think.
The damage done by this bogus story cannot be overstated, and the blood is on Newsweek's hands.
Colmes is a buffoon. However, he actually can't be so stupid as to really believe that argument. "False information" be damned! Maybe it's time he see my Tagline...
To let Newsweek off the hook you would have to know that the WA Post version from March got the same level of coverage in the Mid-East as the Newsweek version did. Anything less than this is just stirring the pot and, perhaps, *worse* since the Post & Newsweek are from the same company.
Anyone with even a passing understanding of Islam and Muslim culture knows how shocking this story would be to that culture. As I said in another post... for them it's the social equivalent of an atomic bomb in D.C.
Why didn't Newsweek / WA Post seek to COOPERATE with the Pentagon and State Dept. on this story in the interest of national security in a time of war? They were either exceedingly irresponsible or deliberately so.
Were they so greedy that they couldn't resist regardless of the damage to the nation and war effort, much less Mid-East deaths? Was there a criminal disregard for safety?
I think it would be appropriate for NEWSWEAK to send IZYDumbA$$ and SULLY over to the ME to cover the Anti-American rioting for the next couple of weeks.
They could hire some private security.
Good Luck guys!
I agree to a lot of what you said, Newsweek HAD to realize what this story would prompt from Islam, which is an issue in itself that needs serious attention. Just more of the rotten leftist Media that go out of their way to criticize and undermine the President and the Iraq war. That said, I also think we shouldn't take our eye off the greater danger, the Murderers themselves. It's not the Media's lies that actually kill people, it's the Murderers and their warped Religion that espouses murder.
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