Monday, May 16, 2005
Newsweek Apologizes For What?
Ah, a new "-Gate." The latest in a string of supposed missteps by the MSM (Mainstream Media). has Newsweek under attack from the far-right for running a unsourced story regarding alleged desecration of the Koran by US forces at Camp X-Ray, in Cuba. Don't these folks have jobs? After a few days of quiet and enough time to coordinate their unsubstantiated attacks on Newsweek, the magazine has issued an apology for not providing further backup on the story.
Well, unnamed administration source, seemed to have made a mistake. Were I Newsweek, I would have relied on the reports that have been listed in a Diary on Daily Kos, which corroborate the "alleged" desecration of the Koran. Now any thinking person would of course agree with the story on its merits and substance, which seem to follow the MO of the current rubes in the upper echelons of the Bush administration.
I have no more to say, but this, Newsweek you should retract the apology immediately. There is more than enough independent evidence to corroborate your story. Maybe an apology for being used by the Bush White House and Karl Rove, but no more. Press the story more. We need the American people to know what is going on. We need them to know that the current Republican "majority" are a disgrace to this country and the world. It is they who have created the mess that we are in and it is they who will be held responsible for the carnage that is Iraq and Afghanistan.
Head on over to Kos and read the complete diary.
Update 12:07 PM, 5.17.2005: Keith Olbermann skewers Scotty "Lapdog" McClellan and the Bush White House for again attacking the messenger and not dispelling the substance of the Koran Desecration story. There have been many reports eminating from Camp X-Ray that corroborate the Newsweek story. Check out Olbermann's blog on MSNBC.com.
Click right here to be transported to Keith's blog.
(UPDATE 3:36 PM): Even though Newsweek has issued a "retraction" of their story regarding alleged desecration of the Koran, Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan are not buying it. In a report from Reuters, Muslim Clerics had this to say, ""We will not be deceived by this," Islamic cleric Mullah Sadullah Abu Aman told Reuters in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, referring to the magazine's retraction.
"This is a decision by America to save itself. It comes because of American pressure. Even an ordinary illiterate peasant understands this and won't accept it."
Aman was the leader of a group of clerics who on Sunday vowed to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it handed over the military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran.
That call for a jihad, or holy war, still stood, he said."
Newsweek, my suggestion still stands, retract your apology and save your credibility with the world.
Well, unnamed administration source, seemed to have made a mistake. Were I Newsweek, I would have relied on the reports that have been listed in a Diary on Daily Kos, which corroborate the "alleged" desecration of the Koran. Now any thinking person would of course agree with the story on its merits and substance, which seem to follow the MO of the current rubes in the upper echelons of the Bush administration.
I have no more to say, but this, Newsweek you should retract the apology immediately. There is more than enough independent evidence to corroborate your story. Maybe an apology for being used by the Bush White House and Karl Rove, but no more. Press the story more. We need the American people to know what is going on. We need them to know that the current Republican "majority" are a disgrace to this country and the world. It is they who have created the mess that we are in and it is they who will be held responsible for the carnage that is Iraq and Afghanistan.
Head on over to Kos and read the complete diary.
Update 12:07 PM, 5.17.2005: Keith Olbermann skewers Scotty "Lapdog" McClellan and the Bush White House for again attacking the messenger and not dispelling the substance of the Koran Desecration story. There have been many reports eminating from Camp X-Ray that corroborate the Newsweek story. Check out Olbermann's blog on MSNBC.com.
Click right here to be transported to Keith's blog.
(UPDATE 3:36 PM): Even though Newsweek has issued a "retraction" of their story regarding alleged desecration of the Koran, Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan are not buying it. In a report from Reuters, Muslim Clerics had this to say, ""We will not be deceived by this," Islamic cleric Mullah Sadullah Abu Aman told Reuters in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, referring to the magazine's retraction.
"This is a decision by America to save itself. It comes because of American pressure. Even an ordinary illiterate peasant understands this and won't accept it."
Aman was the leader of a group of clerics who on Sunday vowed to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it handed over the military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran.
That call for a jihad, or holy war, still stood, he said."
Newsweek, my suggestion still stands, retract your apology and save your credibility with the world.
