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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 »

  1. Given the Abu Graib scandal and the perception of the world against us it is not unreasonable to expect the burden of proof to lie with us. I just checked out a monstrous “tome” from the library… “Torture Papers: the Road to Abu Graib” — it is some 1200 pages of the documented trail that led us to where we are now… no longer the beacon for freedom and what is right to the rest of the world, we are sinking to the level of the Nazis. Sad, sad….

    Comment by Steve Bremner | May 26, 2005

  2. I guess I should have printed the other part of Godwin’s Law (about using Nazi/Hitler/etc. comparisons), which is that the violator of said law (that would be you) has lost all credibility in logical discourse and thus will be ignored until moderator (that would be me) and participants wish to acknowledge his/her existence.

    In other words, feel free to post here all you like, but don’t expect a reply from me. While your softballs have been easy to knock out of the park, batting practice is over for me. As I said before, you’ve proven yourself incapable of logical discourse through your recycled left-wing lies and your flippant use of Taliban analogies.

    When I said before that I was moving on to the next museum exhibit, that meant I was ignoring you. Sorry if I didn’t make it clear enough for an “intellectual” like yourself.

    Consider this my last reply. I don’t give a sh#t if you come by again or not.

    Comment by Jonathan | May 27, 2005

  3. Cool. Looks like all I have to is post a comment and they all disappear!

    Comment by Steve Bremner | June 2, 2005


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