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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: zappaisgod]
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Actually, the Bush (Nazi) Administration has admitted that the riots would have happened anyways, regardless of the newsweek article. Being extremely Nazi, the Bush administration thought they could divert blame for the riots from US occupation to a newsweek article. Their bullshit is as clear as crystal.


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: 1stimer]
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Not really. Newsweek still has the responsibility of making sure their news is put forward in a legitimate manner, regardless of what "would have happened anyways".

Also, don't you think the Bush and Nazi comparison is a bit played out by now?

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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Phred]
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If you want to hear an earful, ask an American soldier how he feels about our news media. You will invariably hear an outpouring of dismay and outrage over antagonistic and reckless reporting. I have stacks of letters and e-mails from soldiers and their families sharing those frustrations.


I personally have some friends serving in Iraq right now who are big Michael Moore fans. Obviously this guy does not speak for all the soldiers. Not all soldiers have blogs either, you know.


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Divided_Sky]
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Divided_Sky said:
For every black eye and man in women's underwear at Abhu Graib there are dozens of Margeret Hassan's and Nick Berg's with their heads sawed off, and even more innocent Iraqis blow to bits by the insurgents. This lopsided fixation on Abhu Graihb seems pretty silly. Actually no, if you want to be consistently anti-US and want to put rigid politics over principle, it makes perfect sense.


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: SoopaX]
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:lol:

How did I miss that post?

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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Redstorm]
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Also, don't you think the Bush and Nazi comparison is a bit played out by now?


It keeps playing itself out day after day.


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: 1stimer]
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No it doesn't.

The next time Bush systematically destroys an entire race, let me know.

The next time Bush has political competition killed or sent to concentration camps, let me know.

The next time Bush creates laws prohibiting whites from marrying other races, let me know.

Bush is an idiot, but to compare him with Hitler is absurd.

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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Redstorm]
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Musollini, on the other hand...


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Silversoul]
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I think that's a stretch as well.

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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Redstorm]
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I know. I was joking.


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Silversoul]
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Ok, good. I was hoping you weren't falling off the edge to the horrible crevice that is the unreasonable left wing.

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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Phred]
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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Phred]
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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Phred]
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You're the new Learyfan. :wink:

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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Phred]
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NEWSWEEK DISSEMBLED, MUSLIMS DISMEMBERED!
May 18, 2005


When ace reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop of the decade, a thoroughly sourced story about the president of the United States having an affair with an intern and then pressuring her to lie about it under oath, Newsweek decided not to run the story. Matt Drudge scooped Newsweek, followed by The Washington Post.

When Isikoff had a detailed account of Kathleen Willey's nasty sexual encounter with the president in the Oval Office, backed up with eyewitness and documentary evidence, Newsweek decided not to run it. Again, Matt Drudge got the story.

When Isikoff was the first with detailed reporting on Paula Jones' accusations against a sitting president, Isikoff's then-employer The Washington Post ? which owns Newsweek ? decided not to run it. The American Spectator got the story, followed by the Los Angeles Times.

So apparently it's possible for Michael Isikoff to have a story that actually is true, but for his editors not to run it.

Why no pause for reflection when Isikoff had a story about American interrogators at Guantanamo flushing the Quran down the toilet? Why not sit on this story for, say, even half as long as NBC News sat on Lisa Meyers' highly credible account of Bill Clinton raping Juanita Broaddrick?

Newsweek seems to have very different responses to the same reporter's scoops. Who's deciding which of Isikoff's stories to run and which to hold? I note that the ones that Matt Drudge runs have turned out to be more accurate ? and interesting! ? than the ones Newsweek runs. Maybe Newsweek should start running everything past Matt Drudge.

Somehow Newsweek missed the story a few weeks ago about Saudi Arabia arresting 40 Christians for "trying to spread their poisonous religious beliefs." But give the American media a story about American interrogators defacing the Quran, and journalists are so appalled there's no time for fact-checking ? before they dash off to see the latest exhibition of "Piss Christ."

Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas justified Newsweek's decision to run the incendiary anti-U.S. story about the Quran, saying that "similar reports from released detainees" had already run in the foreign press ? "and in the Arab news agency al-Jazeera."

Is there an adult on the editorial board of Newsweek? Al-Jazeera also broadcast a TV miniseries last year based on the "Protocols of the Elders Of Zion." (I didn't see it, but I hear James Brolin was great!) Al-Jazeera has run programs on the intriguing question, "Is Zionism worse than Nazism?" (Take a wild guess where the consensus was on this one.) It runs viewer comments about Jews being descended from pigs and apes. How about that for a Newsweek cover story, Evan? You're covered ? al-Jazeera has already run similar reports!

Ironically, among the reasons Newsweek gave for killing Isikoff's Lewinsky bombshell was that Evan Thomas was worried someone might get hurt. It seems that Lewinsky could be heard on tape saying that if the story came out, "I'll (expletive) kill myself."

But Newsweek couldn't wait a moment to run a story that predictably ginned up Islamic savages into murderous riots in Afghanistan, leaving hundreds injured and 16 dead. Who could have seen that coming? These are people who stone rape victims to death because the family "honor" has been violated and who fly planes into American skyscrapers because ? wait, why did they do that again?

Come to think of it, I'm not sure it's entirely fair to hold Newsweek responsible for inciting violence among people who view ancient Buddhist statues as outrageous provocation ? though I was really looking forward to finally agreeing with Islamic loonies about something. (Bumper sticker idea for liberals: News magazines don't kill people, Muslims do.) But then I wouldn't have sat on the story of the decade because of the empty threats of a drama queen gas-bagging with her friend on the telephone between spoonfuls of Haagen-Dazs.

No matter how I look at it, I can't grasp the editorial judgment that kills Isikoff's stories about a sitting president molesting the help and obstructing justice, while running Isikoff's not particularly newsworthy (or well-sourced) story about Americans desecrating a Quran at Guantanamo.

Even if it were true, why not sit on it? There are a lot of reasons the media withhold even true facts from readers. These include:

? A drama queen nitwit exclaimed she'd kill herself. (Evan Thomas' reason for holding the Lewinsky story.)

? The need for "more independent reporting." (Newsweek President Richard Smith explaining why Newsweek sat on the Lewinsky story even though the magazine had Lewinsky on tape describing the affair.)

? "We were in Havana." (ABC president David Westin explaining why "Nightline" held the Lewinsky story.)

? Unavailable for comment. (Michael Oreskes, New York Times Washington bureau chief, in response to why, the day The Washington Post ran the Lewinsky story, the Times ran a staged photo of Clinton meeting with the Israeli president on its front page.)

? Protecting the privacy of an alleged rape victim even when the accusation turns out to be false.

? Protecting an accused rapist even when the accusation turns out to be true if the perp is a Democratic president most journalists voted for.

? Protecting a reporter's source.

How about the media adding to the list of reasons not to run a news item: "Protecting the national interest"? If journalists don't like the ring of that, how about this one: "Protecting ourselves before the American people rise up and lynch us for our relentless anti-American stories."


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Redstorm]
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The next time Bush systematically destroys an entire race, let me know.



Hitler didnt kill an entire race.
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The next time Bush has political competition killed or sent to concentration camps, let me know.


The neocons have tried to provoke violence against judges they disagree with.
Concentration camps=Gitmo.
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The next time Bush creates laws prohibiting whites from marrying other races, let me know.


Sounds a lil like amending the constituion so gays cant marry.


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: 1stimer]
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http://www.counterbias.com/294.html

Also note that something like 15 other news outlets published the "story" of the koran in the toilet, prior to Newsweek. Just some perspective from another angle.


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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: unbeliever]
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Please be kind enough to provide links to a few of those "15 other news outlets". Al-Jazeera doesn't count.

Thank you.



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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Phred]
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Re: Newsweek disavows Koran desecration report that led to riots [Re: Learyfan]
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