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Lack ofNewsweek drops another MSM turd in the punchbowl

There are tons of people tearing Newsweek a new asshole, but I'm gonna link to Ace first. Why? Because anyone who can toss in a gratuitous Logan's Run reference deserves a link.

The obligatory link to Michelle Malkin, just because.

One final link to this comment over at Dean's place:

The fact is that the rioters behaved disgracefully, criminally, horrifically. Killing someone for desecrating a book is insane.

It's also beside the point. The press no longer even considers the possibility that it might act as an enemy propagandist. It's the farthest thing from their minds, not even on their list of considerations.

So what exactly does that say about them?

Right on target, I think.

Update: I've got to add a link to Captain Ed, if for no other reason than his (for him) unusual use of profanity. Excerpt:

Quite frankly, this is bullshit. They went to the Pentagon with a wild story about flushed Qu'rans and now they're surprised when no one knew anything about it? Can you imagine what Newsweek would have written and published had the Pentagon told them to keep quiet about it? They would have turned it into another Abu Ghraib, complete with cover-ups and military censorship. It would have resulted in more silly Senate hearings, and even worse publicity than what Newsweek already generated, with more loss of life -- and all for a story that sounded patently false from the very beginning.

Update: And of course Bill Ardolino pussyfoots around the topic as well:

God, I hate Newsweek. It only grows and grows, my hatred, flourishing like an aggressive mycotoxic mold in the dark, damp crannies of my psyche.

Head on over to LaShawn Barber's Corner for more on the firestorm that Newsweek has created.

Update: Den Beste sighting over here at Daily Pundit, wherein he (rightfully) skewers Sullivan:

Andrew Sullivan's contribution:

Maybe we will have some sort of resolution of this soon, but I doubt it. I reiterate what I wrote Saturday: "Even if this incident turns out to be false, our previous policies have made it perfectly plausible." That's the deeper issue here.

Great. Just great. Sullivan sounds like Rather last September: "The story is true even if the evidence is false."

Final update: And it's from Dean again:

There was a time when I thought the press had a bias problem, but one that could easily be corrected if they were just open minded and a little more thoughtful. But nowadays? When it comes to coverage of the war? I simply no longer think that. I feel betrayed by them. I think they're mostly a bunch of cynical, selfish, shallow, unpatriotic jerks--jerks who have no understanding of military matters, a shallow grasp of history, and no sense of proportion at all. So they will happily repeat lie after lie all in the name of a phony "objectivity" that they clearly do not possess.

Michael Isikoff isn't a fluke. He's the single lesion on a single cell that reveals the pathology that's destroying the entire organism.

Yeah, I think you can call them unpatriotic.

Posted by Physics Geek at May 16, 2005 03:50 PM Stumble It!