BLACK BELT POLITICAL MARTIAL ARTS

BLACK BELT POLITICAL MARTIAL ARTS
Newsweek Gitmo Qu'ran Story Gets Flipped nto the Toilet.
This story stinks.  As with Dan Rather and the Bush National Guard case, the story here about Newsweek and flushing the Qur’an down the toilet at Gitmo will not be about the original outrageous charge at all.  An anonymous source is pulling back from his original statement.  Numerous other sources have made the same claim that the Muslim holy book was treated with less than great respect.  All of this can now be discounted.  The story will now become why can’t the press get every detail right?  And if the media can’t get it completely right, why must the media be biased against the government.

NEWSWEEK ISSUE MAY 23, 2005: 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.

This is black belt political martial arts at its finest.  You take the full fury of who charge against you and with one deft move leave your opponent on the floor.  When your opponent is on the floor, all the cowards jump in.

Newsweek slaps itself in the fact first, but not before slapping itself on the back in congratulations for bringing these offenses to the Arab world’s attention, as though this information was new.

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.

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.

Newsweek, the news is week indeed.
The sorry Newsweek apology letter can be found here.  MORE ON THS AT Talk Left.

Comments

[Agitprop]

Oh dear. When did Winston Smith start working work NooseWeak? Can we flush them down the toilet?

[KathyF]

This one stinks more than the alleged toilet. My friend who was visiting me has a husband in Afghanistan now, a civilian worker. We had to avoid the news all week so she wouldn't hear this and worry, but I worried plenty when he didn't answer an email I sent right after I heard on BBC Americans were killed in the bomb blast. Turned out to be Afghans who were killed. Sucks for them, sucks for all of us.

And do you not see a connection between the post up top on idols and religion? They demand we respect their Christian religion, yet do not give the same respect to others. Hypocrisy, yet again.