BREAKING: Newsweek retracts story. (CNN)

[doxieone]

Wolf just announced. No link.

[tritsofme]

1. Thats what they're saying on MSNBC and Faux

too...

[bpilgrim]

64. the ME is not happy -----------------------------> IMAGE

http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[Career Prole]

2. Might be just a blitzerization.

Hand-spun news carefully polished until it looks good to Wolfie.

[DS1]

3. Now onto British memo

[Zorra]

19. Downing St. Memo Website:

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

[otohara]

4. Stupid, Spineless Newsweek

how fucking stupid can they be? OMG - the US press is pathetic.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. Pathetic doesn't strike the right chord.

They are worse than that.

[leftchick]

14. It is worse than pathetic

now they are co-conspirators. :grr:

[otohara]

38. Ohhh...I Never Thought About That - You're Right

Bush cocksuckers they are!

[pinerow]

11. The U.S press is so dismal because we accept

mediocrity as the gold standard...I mean where else can you have a c student as president and the Scarboroughs of the world delivering their pap....

[katty]

44. Wonder who Karl theatened this time?!4thReich alive and well

[doublethink]

5. WHEN IS BUSH GOING TO RETRACT THIS WHOLE FUCKING WAR BASED ON A LIE !!!!!!

:wtf: ......... THIS DAMN MONICA CROWLEY KEEPS POUNDING THE 15 DEATHS BECAUSE OF THIS STORY ON MSNBC ..... SOMEONE TELL THE BITCH HOW MANY DEATHS HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE ORIGINAL WMD LIES !!!! :mad:

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Hell meet snowball.

[Lori Price CLG]

21. LOLOL, Pacifist Patriot!!! n/t

[Lori Price CLG]

18. Retract his f*cking p-Residency, first!! BOTH terms!! n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

29. Now THAT I'd like to see.

I had the worst dream last night. I was holding my two year old son knowing I had to say goodbye to him. I had been drafted and was being sent somewhere but I didn't know where. Someone took him out of my arms and I had to go through all these weird lines. The last thing I saw before I woke up was a hospital-type bed with restraints and knew I was expected to get in it voluntarily. I woke up in the absolute worst mood. I still cannot shake that feeling of being separated from my family and I've been listening to the boys squabble all day.

[wallwriter]

52. Yeah, really

Are they unaware of their own incredble stinking hypocrisy?

[Vincardog]

7. The are lying their asses off. They deny the repeated reports

of this religious persecution. And the talking head say
"They are Terrorists" why believe them over OUR truthful brave Soldiers? Remember there is a reason the Arabs are in detention. :puke:

[stellanoir]

9. this misadministration will

only permit redacted and retracted truths. eom.

[Stand and Fight]

10. And Jesus wept...

This is nuts.

[halobeam]

13. We're just doomed.

Enjoy each day. Glad I'm learning how.

Edit to say: sorry, just have had it lately, most days, I feverishly do what I can.

[Just Me]

12. Well, according to Myers, the protests had nothing to do with the story.

We still aren't getting the facts surrounding the protest itself. All we're getting is the neoCONfascists blaming Newsweek for the death of civilian protestors.

Moreover, the British memo is having a "coming out" as well.

I am so sick of this evil spin and lies and covering-up BS by the administration. SICK.OF.IT.

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. You know, my first reaction to the link between the story and

the protests was one of incredulity. Something just doesn't connect and I think the one has nothing to do with the other.

[Just Me]

22. I think they are covering-up the facts relating to the protests.

I do. They have to hurry up and blame something/one for the deaths BEFORE any further facts come out to SMOTHER the truth. They do this ALL THE TIME.

Moreover, they need to distract folks from the British memo.

No one should EVER underestimate the malignant strategies these neoCONfascists are willing and able to execute.

[Zorra]

15. Cheney's goons probably threatened to, um, do something nasty

to family members of Newsweek staff if they did not retract the story.

[0007]

26. I think Cheney should start with Jerry Boykin

....oh they gave this ass-wipe a promotion?

CNN, MSNBC & FAUX are a day late and a dollar short. The damage has been done.


Fighting Muslims is like fighting Satan according to Boykin

[Up2Late]

16. This BS is just beyond words n/t

:banghead: :mad: :argh: :hurts: :grr: :nuke: :rant:


Hey Bush

[MN ChimpH8R]

47. An old song came to mind

Hey now it’s time for you and me
Got a revolution got to revolution
Come on now we’re marching to the sea
Got a revolution got to revolution
Who will take it from you
We will and who are we
We are volunteers of america

-Paul Kantner

:grr: :nuke: :grr:

[Lori Price CLG]

20. I don't have access to a TV... - on edit, thanks for link. n/t

[Just Me]

25. The neoCONfascists are accusing Newsweek of being responsible,...

,...for the deaths of civilian protests due to a story which included flushing the Koran.

It's TOTAL BS. Meanwhile, no one really knows the facts surrounding those protests. The footage broadcast showed UNARMED protestors. Question is: who shot them and why? Moreover, were the protests simply anti-occupiers/US or specifically about the destruction of the Koran?

[Lori Price CLG]

35. Thank you, Just Me! n/t

[merwin]

23. LINK HERE:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050516/ap_on_re_us/newsweek_quran

[Bethany Rockafella]

24. We can only imagine the amount of pressure the folks at Newsweek

had to endure to retract the story. This should be upsetting to everyone.

[cestpaspossible]

33. Note that they did not say the desecration of the Quran didn't happen.

"Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Quran abuse at Guantanamo Bay,"

I guess it was uncovered in a different way.

[Lautremont]

51. "Based on what we know now..."

Which is to say, based on the response from the right, they now know they can expect a truck full of fertilizer parked next to their building if they don't retract the story.

[Career Prole]

27. MSNBC has front page link which says "Newsweek retracts Quran story"

Inside story, updated at 3:11 EDT says
Newsweek switch
on Quran story
pleases nobody

Muslims see a coverup
for U.S.; White House
demands full retraction

Story calls it a "partial retraction"...what gives?

KABUL - The firestorm of anger continued Monday over Newsweek’s handling of a story that alleged U.S. interrogators desecrated the Quran as Muslim leaders and the Bush administration both blasted the magazine’s partial retraction of the piece.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7870840/

:shrug:

[warrens]

28. Hmmm, read the actual story

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7864705/

Doesn't look like a retraction to me. Looks like a, well, we can't prove it so we'll withdraw the charge while we investigate. They're not saying it's untrue, only that one of their sources can't substantiate what he told them.

[Baclava]

30. Which story?

[high density]

31. I guess now Newsweek can join CBS News...

as being victims of the right-wing cable news echo chamber. I don't really care that much about Newsweek, but the cable news networks are heading down that road of hypocrisy once again with this latest fiasco.

[bunny planet]

32. Now maybe Wolf can cover the actual number of deaths of US soldiers

in Iraq being closer to 6000 rather than the 1500 being reported. Seems if they don't die right then and there at the scene they don't count as war dead.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO STOP THESE CRIMINALS. The media is just useless. First CBS news caves, now Newsweek. And the real liars just continue to lie with impunity.

Today is yet another day to scream aloud in pure unadulterated frustration and anger.

AAARRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[pie]

34. hahaha, this is too funny

What else can you say about it?

[K8-EEE]

36. Message To Sheeple: Criticism Of GWB Is Not CORRECT!

Because all of it is "a lie." His whole presidency and this whole war is a LIE!

[Just Me]

40. The willfully blind of the wolves in shepards' clothing,...

,...in spite of the gnarling teeth, the deception, the deaths and clawed paw prints.

Good God!!! Will these people EVER take off the freakin' blinders?!?!?! :grr:

[KamaAina]

37. Remember how much they loved Michael Isikoff when he broke BJGate?

These repukes. With them it's always "What have you done for me lately?" So it's time to throw Isikoff under the bus, I guess.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

39. Damn Liberal Media

always doing the bidding of Liberals. yukyuk

Its a shame that brainwashed joe-sixpack doesn't have a sense of irony, nor a conscience nor a shred of decency. If he had any of these tools of humanity he would be able to understand just exactly what is going on, and the stakes.

[renaissanceguy]

50. Nah, all they care about

is polishing their guns, drinking beer, and getting fat.


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.21272075

[SlavesandBulldozers]

92. not real republicans. There's only one thing that gets a Repub hard

[DoYouEverWonder]

41. Somebody needs to tell the Shithead living in our WH

that you can't have DEMOCRACY without a free press.

Besides all the retractions in the world aren't going to change the truth. The truth is that BUSH TORTURES other HUMANS.

[ckramer]

42. I can image this was true but since the White house gave out

political and financial pressures so Newsweek says the hell with the truth and nobody wants to be Dan Rather the second so here you are - retracting the story.

There's no such thing as media integrity. Everything under the sun is on sale.

So all people from the media industries please, don't tell people you are holier than the Joe-sixpacks. You are just another ugly patitioner of a practicular trade. You sell your soul too when it comes to money, power, and sex.

Rant over.

[ElectroPrincess]

43. Yeah what ckramer said! :-)

Now I'm gonna go eat worms ... then do something useful, like say, cancel my cable? :P

[rodeodance]

45. Afghan Leaders Demand a 'Reaction,' but U.S. Officials Fear They Can't .

related story.




Government Doing Damage Control

Muslim leaders in Afghanistan have given Washington three days to respond to the Newsweek story, according to The Associated Press.

The White House and Pentagon have already been scrambling to defuse this story since Newsweek's announcement on Sunday.

Officials "were sending out cables all day yesterday to their embassies in the Arab world to get out the message that this story isn't true," Stephanopoulos said. "They have a media unit set up in London that is going to put officials on al-Jazeera and on other Arab media."

But reports of soldiers using detainees' religion against them and images of detainees being humiliated from inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison have inspired deep distrust of the United States in the Muslim world.......


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=760971

U.S. Scrambling After Newsweek Report

Afghan Leaders Demand a 'Reaction,' but U.S. Officials Fear They Can't Control Muslim Anger

[Lizzie Borden]

70. "No such thing as media integrity..." Bingo.

You nailed it, but I think we keep on hoping because there was a time when there was. It's sad.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

46. Real News from Afghanistan via the U.K.

Karzai warns heavy-handed US troops as riots spread
By Nick Meo in Kabul
16 May 2005


President Hamid Karzai insisted the Kabul government will veto US military operations after a week of hugely destructive anti-American rioting left Afghan cities and towns in flames and hospitals overflowing with casualties.

The Afghan leader, installed with Washington's support in 2001 and often derided as an American puppet, seemed to be bowing to a growing mood of popular anger with American military tactics and uneasiness over how long bases will remain on Afghan soil. He promised to correct "mistakes" made by US forces, especially intrusive searches of village homes by American troops in areas where the Taliban insurgency continues.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=638633

[alarcojon]

67. Let's remember that the Koran story is just the tip of the

iceberg for the Afghani people. It didn't singlehandedly create these protests out of thin air. There are many grievances over a long period of time.

[NJmaverick]

48. This will ONLY fool the sheeple of this country

The rest of the world is not going to buy georgie boy's cover up and bullying of the media.

[demo dutch]

58. Unfortunately there's an awful lot of sheeple!

[Massachusetts]

49. Oh what a tangled web....

"So go on, boys, and play your hands, life is a pantomime,
The ringleaders from the county seat say you don't have all that much time." B. Dylan:bounce:

[NightOwwl]

53. Complete and utter destruction of the free press.

Mission Accomplished.

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[Mr.Green93]

54. Can't they see they were set-up

It is so obvious.

[DemoTex]

55. On the Newsweek retraction, Rummy says, very ominously ..

"People should watch what they say." I have never heard such a public threat to the news media by the US Government. Like either Randi or Al said today (I paraphrase), where are the good old days of Richard Nixon and Watergate.
Folks, the regime has smacked-down Newsweek. Just like they did Rather and CBS.

:scared:

[Boneman]

56. Yeah, Rummy is a public enemy........nft

ddddddddf

[Name removed]

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[DemoTex]

69. Lucky ducky

You are still here.

[DoNotRefill]

60. But NOOOOOO.....there's no First Amendment issue here.....

well, at least according to SOME DUers there isn't...

"People lost their lives. People are dead," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Capitol Hill. "People need to be very careful about what they say, just as they need to be careful about what they do."

[bpilgrim]

65. WH Spokesperson Ari Fleischer said exactly that as well after 911

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm aware of the press reports about what he said. I have not seen the actual transcript of the show itself. But assuming the press reports are right, it's a terrible thing to say, and it unfortunate. And that's why -- there was an earlier question about has the President said anything to people in his own party -- they're reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.

source...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010926-5.html

...

Q On the Bill Maher issue, we talked about this morning. But now, today, this afternoon, in relation to the USA Today story on the special ops, this is the second time from this podium that you have essentially cautioned the MEDIA and people to watch what they say, as you put it with Bill Maher. That has triggered a lot of comment and concern. Do you believe it is appropriate, as the President's spokesmen, exercising that authority, to issue that kind of warning?

source...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010926-5.html


http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[KennedyGuy]

66. Sorry sad pathetic excuse for media in this country

they will be cowed into submission for the rest of Chimpys term.

[demo dutch]

57. That's just going to make it worse, it'll look like a cover-up

[GoBlue]

59. Correction:

Newsweek retracts News. eom

[UCLA Dem]

62. Its about damn time!

[gauguin57]

63. We all know the incident happened. Is flushing the Koran much farther

around the bend than smearing fake menstrual blood or leading naked men around on leashes? Come on ... we know these "ve have vays of makink you tahk" came from the top.

And now the Bush Admin. is covering their asses, and blaming the media for their own failings.

Effing sickening! Will these cretins stop at nothing?

I want my country back!

[digno dave]

68. "People lost their lives. People are dead," Defense Sec. Rumsfeld said

Anyone see the irony in this remark by Rumsfeld, regarding tthe deaths in Afghanistan?

[olddad56]

71. I think it is a sting, like the CBS deal.

The neo-nazis leak a piece of info that bogus, a media source bites , then they are discredited for jumping on the bait. Suddenly, the entire issue related to piece of info no longer has legs. Karl is one slick fascist pig.

[texanwitch]

72. I wonder how many men in the middle east are getting ready to go to Iraq

This is not good, all Bush and Rove did was paint big targets on the backs of the military.

[eridani]

73. Email addys for Newsweek

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/15/211444/985
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10685611.htm
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/newsweek_koran_report_516.htm

As diarist Susan Hu mentions over at DailyKos (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/15/211444/985), the stories of Koran desecration at Gitmo are well-sourced and come from multiple sources -- and have been reported on for months, as this January 2005 Philadelphia Inquirer article shows
(http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10685611.htm).

Note that Bush's White House did not call the Newsweek story "inaccurate". Instead, it used the term "irresponsible", which is the word the Bush administration uses to describe media coverage that forces the Bush administration to face the fruits of its own bad actions.

*ACTION*

Please pick one of the sources of corroboration mentioned in Kos and email it to a journalist covering this story and/or to the letters to the editor address at a major daily. Do the same with a cable news show or two. Find addresses below.

Write a general letter to the editor stressing how it is important that we focus on determining if the story is true. If it is, responsibility lies with the Administration rather than a journalist for reporting it.

[email protected]
[email protected]

My contribution--

To the editor:

There is no reason for Isikoff to apologize for having one Pentagon source for his story about desecration of the Koran. This story is not only multiply sourced, but has been in the news for months, albeit rarely ‘above the fold’. For other examples dating back to January of 2005, see the following links.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/15/211444/985
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10685611.htm\

It is important to point out that the White House did not call Isikoff’s story "inaccurate". Instead, it used the term "irresponsible", which is their code word for “When we do really stupid things, the rest of the world has no right to find out about it.”

[oblivious]

74. Google listing 1,420 related articles

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&gl=us&ncl=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-05-16-newsweek-usat_x.htm%3FPOE%3DNEWISVA

[funflower]

75. Newsweek Retracts Quran Desecration Story

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=763759

(snip)

WASHINGTON May 17, 2005 — The White House says Newsweek took a "good first step" by retracting its story that U.S. investigators found evidence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran, but it wants the magazine to do more to repair damage caused by the article.

(snip)

[Wilms]

76. Hundreds dead. Send a repair crew.

Newsweek is why they hate America. :eyes:

[Erika]

77. I'll post again

Half of Americans have no trust of Bush. Why should Muslims trust Bush? Bush may have intimidated Newsweek.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

78. Newsweek...

Let's be clear...

NEWSWEEK has not retracted it's story.

It has retracted that their source was 'official'.

The story is REAL - It HAPPENED - Qurans were desecrated.

The only hypocrisy involved in this incident is from the right-wing commentators pretending that NEWSWEEK got it wrong, when they got it absolutely right.

There is no need to bring up falsehoods from the right to explain away NEWSWEEK's mistake - the only mistake NEWSWEEK made was in bowing to White House pressure.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/15/19221/4742

Please visit my website, http://www.shockedandawful.com

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is

[pk_du]

85. Right on 1AD.....and welcome to DU n/t

[cloudythescribbler]

88. Yes, it's a matter of policy not to publicize such reports WHEN TRUE

The Tories who rule America (9/11 being "Christmas for Tories") believe in the doctrine of 'seditious libel' -- which is libel against the state where the greater the truth, the greater the libel.
If someone comes out with a true but discrediting report, they can never admit -- "these outrageous allegations must be condemned in no uncertain terms, and the worst thing about it is that they are all true!" Instead they have backdoor ways of doing it -- intimidating into silence, vilifying Oliver Stone for a docudrama on the Garrison case about JFK, suppressing someone and then letting copperheads and privileged reactionaries define the issue, with the opportunity of any effective response from ANY progressive corner completely suppressed, or backdoor venues like kiddie porn (exposing the children/chosen) to enforce seditious libel in venues most of us would properly recognize as disgusting. But that's what the system and those who rule it are all about. And what is blowing in the wind is in fact more of the same only more intensely -- more Tory Horsesh**, more privileges, a US media where any possibility of genuine diversity of opinion is crushed not merely structurally, but even in decentralized media.
Newsweek, like other media outlets are required to be brought into line. Anyone remember the media lockdown during Votergate 2004?

[funflower]

79. Gee. Do you really think our President would try to intimidate the press?

:sarcasm:

[Iowa]

81. Yep, it's all Newsweek's fault...

Now that they have retracted the story, I'm more inclined to believe it was accurate all along. It rings true.

[BrendaStarr]

83. Pentagon did not dispute allegation

When they were given a look at the allegation (before publication) they said nothing.

He said that a senior Pentagon official, for reasons that "are still a little mysterious to us," had declined to comment after Newsweek correspondent John Barry showed him a draft before the item was published and asked, "Is this accurate or not?" Whitaker added that the magazine would have held off had military spokesmen made such a request. That official "lacked detailed knowledge" of the investigative report, Newsweek now says. Whitaker said Pentagon officials raised no objection to the story for 11 days after it was published, until it was translated by some Arab media outlets and led to the rioting.

The item was principally reported by Michael Isikoff, Newsweek's veteran investigative reporter. "Obviously we all feel horrible about what flowed from this, but it's important to remember there was absolutely no lapse in journalistic standards here," he said. "We relied on sources we had every reason to trust and gave the Pentagon ample opportunity to comment. . . . We're going to continue to investigate what remains a very murky situation."

Isikoff, a former Post reporter, gained national attention in 1998 when the magazine held his report on an independent counsel's investigation of Monica S. Lewinsky's relationship with President Bill Clinton. More recently, Isikoff and Barry won an Overseas Press Club award for their reporting on Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/15/AR2005051500605.html

How incompetent is Defense anyway?

Also Karzai indicated that the riots were probably ( in Afghanistan) more about the heavy handedness of US troops anyway. (Of course not in so many words)

The Afghan leader, installed with Washington's support in 2001 and often derided as an American puppet, seemed to be bowing to a growing mood of popular anger with American military tactics and uneasiness over how long bases will remain on Afghan soil. He promised to correct "mistakes" made by US forces, especially intrusive searches of village homes by American troops in areas where the Taliban insurgency continues.

Searching homes for weapons is a highly contentious issue in the southern and eastern Pushtun tribal areas, especially when soldiers barge into womens' quarters, a deeply insulting act in tribal culture. The military has tried to soothe anger, training female soldiers to search.

Afghans also complain that innocent villagers are frequently arrested and taken to Guantanamo Bay or the interrogation centre north of Kabul at Bagram if they are unlucky enough to be in the vicinity of attacks on US soldiers or if they are the victim of faulty intelligence. Last year, Mr Karzai appealed to the US military to rethink their tactics. But he is now demanding control of military activities. He said: "We will allow or not allow operations to be conducted."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=638633

Reminds me of the 1992 LA riots. They were about continuing police bias and brutality, not Rodney King.

[ccarter84]

87. HRW out in July 2004 with this same allegation

Heard this on Randi Rhodes on monday...found it late tonight

PDF(#74 on p.27)HRW PDF

" Asif says that ‘it was impossible to pray because initially we did not know the direction to pray, but also given that we couldn’t move and the harassment from the guards, it was simply not feasible. The behaviour of the guards towards our religious practices as well as the Koran was also, in my view, designed to cause us as much distress as possible. They would kick the Koran, throw it into the toilet and generally disrespect it."

Another media franchise under attack just like Dan Rather....lets see if they put up some fight this time.

[jayctravis]

80. Sooo...Newsweek is going to have to go on tv to say they're sorry

to the Muslim populace for causing all the bloodshed in the Middle East and convincing Shrub that there were WMD and for causing the War and gas is $2+ a gallon and that they support gay marriage and it was in fact *they* who unplugged Terry Schiavo?

[PurityOfEssence]

82. Well, yeah, it happened...we just didn't mean to say it

Please don't hurt us Mr. Man, it was just a knee-jerk lapse of judgement, and we'll stay away from this reality stuff. Promise.

[BrendaStarr]

84. Hey Condi--Where's that mushroom cloud smoking gun?

Or the yellow cake, aluminum tubes just the right size to be remade at great cost into uranium enrichment parts?

Hmmmm?

How about how you couldn't imagine that planes would be used by al Qaeda when the Clinton administration had stopped a plot to blow up a whole lot of loaded American airliners over the Pacific?

Bitch!

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

86. when will the govt. RETRACT the lies about WMD's costing so may lives?

We need a full apology from the Smirk administration for lying about the reason to invade Iraq.

[markus]

89. Based on what we know now...

we retract the story.

No admission that it's wrong. In fact, this note is at the end of a statement that says what we knew about Rather-gate: the facts stand, but the technical nature of their reporting is not all we would wish.

But it's out there. This never happened. We have always been at war with Oceania.

I'm sorry, but this is going to continue as long as the media and mainstream politicans fear the right more than they fear us.

[crowcalling]

90. I'm not surprised!

A co-worker seemed miffed yesterday. He then obviously couldn't keep it in any longer! "Can you believe Newsweek running that story?" They will say anything to make this country look bad!"

So the right-wing story line talking point is that even if something is true, if it makes us look bad, the press should not publish it.
If the bushies commit crimes, we should not know about it. If we don't know about it then it isn't true! So simple really.

Why can't we just go along with the "Right Wing Reality". Perhaps if everyone just purges their minds of all doubts, magic will occur. Iraq really will be welcoming us and the fighting will stop. Bush really will turn into the second coming. Oh and of course Gas prices will drop because we will find an unlimited supply of oil in Alaska.

It's simply all our fault for not participating in this magical reality changing ritual!

[Robworld]

91. News Week may have retracted, but the story is still out there.

Isn't that a Karl Rove technique. Get the story out, have people talking about and if a week later its proved false, it doesn't matter because its on peoples mind.
This story proves again that the corporate media cow tows to this administration.
Newsweek's credibility is hurt more by retracting the article, then standing by the story.

http://www.dumdumgoestothecircus.com /
Website updated

[Byrdsmyman]

93. IMHO--Story was overboard

but administration deserves to squim alittle.. might make thm think twice before heading to syria/iran., etc. hmmmm

[struggle4progress]

94. Look there! Up in the sky! It's a .. No! It's a .. No! It's a diversion!