So, the White House is expressing indignation over the Newsweek story.

[JohnnyRingo]

As per Scott McClellan's briefing this morning in which he expressed that "sorry" isn't good enough

I think the real issue is that the story SOUNDS quite credible, considering the administration's past performance.

If someone reported ten years ago that military interrogators flushed a Quran in a toilet, further research would have been warranted.

In light of recent revelations concerning Buxh administration atrocities against the Muslim world, the accusations seem very credible.

George Buxh's hard earned reputation precludes his right to indignation in this matter.

In fact, Because of past bullying by the admin against their detractors, I still have suspicions of why the "source" changed his story.

[UdoKier]

1. The Koran story was true. The retraction is false.

Bush. McClellan & Rove: "Stop printing the truth, dammit!"

Newsweek: "Okay."

[Spazito]

2. They haven't retracted the story, that is a distortion being put

out by the rightwingers and the inept media.

From an article in Canadian news:

"But despite the apology, Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker defended his staff in an interview. He insisted Newsweek did nothing "professionally wrong," that nobody would be disciplined over the report, and that no retraction would be made."

Link to the article:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1116238425043_30/?hub=TopStories

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3. But this is how it works -

Discredit the media by feigning outrage so that the story becomes the media itself, and the original news is obscured. This serves to both intimidate an already whorish media and taint the media in the eyes of the flock who still buy the crap from the regime.

If the UK memo story ever gets traction in our MSM (another memo, I'm sure they'll be all over it anytime now), you can bet the defense from the traitors in the WH won't be a refutation of the memo itself, but an attack on a "liberal" media that's "already got it wrong twice." That attack would be relentless, for as long as it took to obscure the truth, and the public to lose interest.

And I don't doubt for a minute that the Newsweek source was "silenced" by the thugs who gave us the Iraq massacre, Gitmo, and Abu Garaib - to name a few.

[Cleita]

4. What an arrogant bunch of twits. n/t