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"We’re neutral"

Newsweek to al Jazeera: “We’re neutral.”

al Jazeera to Newsweek: “Yeah..(snicker…snicker…) we are, too!”

Story:

Just days after Newsweek “retracted” its Quran-flushing story, a top editor with the magazine seemingly backed away from its flat-out retraction, telling the U.S.-hostile al-Jazeera network that Newsweek was “neutral” on whether Americans had desecrated the Quran.

In a May 19 interview with the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera, Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief Daniel Klaidman admitted the magazine made a “mistake” in publishing the story, and promised: “In the future, we won’t make these kinds of mistakes.”

The Al-Jazeera interview with Newsweek was translated this week by Memri.org – the Middle East Media Research Institute, a non profit group that engages in “original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.”

The Memri transcript shows that Newsweek was cleverly telling millions of Arab viewers there story may still be true – they just did not have the evidence to support their original allegations.

The Al-Jazeera reporter asked Newsweek’s Klaidman, “But there is no proof that it (the Quran desecration) did not happen either.”

So al-Jazeera wants proof that the incidents did not happen? Interesting. While most anti-American entities think we should treat the savages detained in Gitmo with an “innocent until proven guilty, despite what your lying eyes show you,” these same entities think that it is incumbent upon America to prove that the lies spun from al Qaeda’s propaganda training manual techniques MUST be disproved…in other words, guilty until proven innocent!

Yeah, the al-Jazeera Terrorvision Network…good and reliable, independent and balanced, unbiased and objective!

May 26, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Gulag? How the hell would THEY know?

Boortz nails anti-American Amnesty International on this one:

The always reliable anti-American organization known as Amnesty International got into the United States-bashing act yesterday. They made a statement that is quite a gem. They came right out and accused us of running a gulag at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Really….they don’t say.

First off…let’s take a look at the definition of a gulag. Gulag refers to the system of camps run by the Soviet Union between 1930 and 1955 in which millions of people died. The gulags held political prisoners in brutal conditions. Now let’s see how that compares to things down in Cuba. The U.S. is holding 540 Islamic terrorists prisoner. They are illegal combatants and not entitled to Geneva conventions protection. They were taken prisoner while trying to kill us. Not political prisoners in the least. They are being held with cause.

And why is Amnesty all hot and bothered about it anyway? What about the forced labor gulags in North Korea? Castro’s Cuba? Why are they more worried about our little prison in Guantanamo Bay? The answer is because they are an anti-American organization and their goal is always to make America look as bad as possible. Always blame America first.

By the way, it’s interesting to note the Associated Press’ discussion of the gulags in the Soviet Union, where as they say “untold thousands” died. Still covering for Uncle Joe, I see. Conservative estimates put the dead from Stalin’s camps at more like 20 million.

540 vs. 20 million. You be the judge.

You’d figure that while they were there at Cuba checking out those poor al Qaeda and exhaulted Taliban (revered by a recent visitor here), they’d stroll over to Havana to see some real human suffering. I know, the human suffering there isn’t the fault of failed socialist policies…it’s the cruel American blockade.

May 26, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | 12 Comments