17 May 2005

Newsweek throws out the baby with the bathwater

Newsweek has dutifully retracted its recent story alleging that U.S. interrogators harrassed detainees at Guantanamo by flushing the Koran down the toilet. They did so amidst much pressure from the powers that be. [Read story.]

Now the conservative pundits and red-state sheep can use this to further criticize the so-called "liberal media" for making up incriminating stories to cast Saint George in a bad light.

I suspect that it will never occur to these people to do some research and thereby find that reports of desecration of the Koran by Guantanamo personnel are nothing new. As with Rathergate, they will overlook the forest for the trees, and ignore the very serious underlying issue that really matters.

[Read about the earlier allegations.]

No comments:

Post a Comment