Civil Commotion: The Right Wing Hysteria Machine ...

[Mark E. Smith]

... is in overdrive this weekend, flogging Newsweek as viciously as a Mullah punishing teens for illicit sex.

Michelle Malkin: "Newsweek has blood on its hands. Blood on its desks."

Roger L. Simon wants to know Newsweek's source, adding: "Newsweek isn't saying. Until they report such things as that, I won't believe a word that magazine says. Why would anybody?"

Blackfire: "Partners in terror?"

Moore Thoughts: Blood On Their Hands - "Newsweek's error is inexcusable. Why, in God's name, would you fabricate such a story? How bad is the American soldier supposed to be? How awful are we envisioned as a culture?"

You get the idea. If you can stomach more, go here and browse to your heart's content: http://technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=newsweek.

CC goes on to note:

Accounts of alleged abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo have been around for a long time, including allegations of desecrations of the Quran. As the Newsweek Periscope item noted right from the get-go, they appeared even in FBI e-mails ...

http://www.civilcommotion.com/index.php?p=174

[Kagemusha]

1. The Pentagon has not found 'any credible evidence'.

World reaction: "Newsweek admtis it gets its FACTS wrong."

[Robbien]

2. Not this weekend, this flogging is just getting started

Rove and Norquist are just getting the machine in gear tonight and it will be a full out flame in Monday morning's news. They will extend this story all week which may even cut into some of the Michael Jackson reporting.

[komplex]

3. Wow, the Warmongers accusing Newsweek of

having Blood on its hands.

I fully expect heads to explode this week.

[Mark E. Smith]

6. CNN is reporting Joint Chiefs head Richard Myers ...

... as opining that this all has a lot more to do with local Afghan politics than anything else.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/newsweek.quran/

[NightOwwl]

4. What the Bush Administration cannot control, they will destroy. n/t

[LynnTheDem]

5. Just ANYTHING to cover up that "I had sex with mules" republican "family

values man" report.

You're only fooling & making fools of yourselves, rightwingnuts.