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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (10247)5/17/2005 3:12:15 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
A TRULY DISGUSTING NIGHTLINE

John Podhoretz
The Corner

On tonight's Nightline, supposedly about Newsweek's admission that the murderous story it published about flushing a Koran down the toilet at Gitmo is a lie, the introductory piece actually blamed the United States government for the riots that erupted as a result. "It would certainly be convenient to say that all this is Newsweek's fault," said Nightline.'s John Donvan. "The problem is, America also has a credibility problem in the Muslim world."

Quoting Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman's declaration that the story is "demonstrably false," Donvan responded in an incredulous voiceover, "Demonstrably false? At Guanatamo Bay almost nothing is demonstrable, especially to the Muslim world. It's a secret prison -- for good reason perhaps -- but secret. What really goes on at Guanatamo Bay no one really knows."

The thing is, no one really knows what goes on at Nightline either. And we know network news has a credibility problem. So would that make it all right for me to report that, according to an anonymous source, Ted Koppel flushed a Koran down the toilet?

No, Ted Koppel did not flush a Koran down the toilet. But according to Nightline, we just can't be sure, can we? Maybe John Donvan did it.

nationalreview.com
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