Posted on 05/19/2005 5:23:38 PM PDT by BCrago66
Edited on 05/19/2005 5:39:11 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Seymour Hersh, whose famously inventive journalism has won him lots of prizes and a new lease on journalistic life as The New Yorker's crusading Beltway gumshoe, has done a laying on of hands with Michael Isikoff, the prime author of the nuclear tidbit that appeared in the May 9 issue of Newsweek about the desecration of the Koran by American interrogators at Guantánamo.
Hersh this week asserted that Isikoff "does that magic thing that's so obvious but that nobody does: he reads before he writes." Nobody does?
It may not come as news to critical readers of Hersh's work that he finds something arresting about the notion that you should read before you write.
But what is really risible about his pronouncement is that, in this matter, apparently, reading before writing is precisely what Isikoff did not do. He seems never to have read any official document stating that any American official anywhere during the present war against Islamic terrorists abused the sacred book of the Muslims.
"We feel badly":
But do they feel the pain the familes who's members were killed feel???
Last of the Sane Liberals
Just like bill clinton.
The ironic thing is, Perez used to be a big backer of Al Gore, but then he denounced Gore when he went completely batty post-2000.
With the left it's always about feelings substituting for accountability.
Why do you think that the deaths would cause pain rather than pride and joy? After all, the death was incurred while defending Allah (in the form of the Quran). That should be good for a non-stop ticket straight to Paradise
I was referring to the Americans killed not others.
If I was misinterpreting your comment, I apologize.
However, I thought you meant the anti-US rioting in Pakistan and other Muslim countries allegedly over the Newsweek fiction. AFAIK no Americans were killed. But you may be better-informed.
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