if an anonymous source in Gitmo had reported a prisoners tossed a letter containing the whereabouts of WMD in Iraq down a toilet
No reporter of any political persuasion would pass up a scoop like that.
This one was, simply because it painted a nasty light on the military, the war effort and the administration.
First of all, this story, if true, does not paint any nasty light on the administration.
If it's true that some nitwit at Gitmo flushed a Koran, it paints a nasty light on the nitwit. Unlike Abu Graib, where the offenses could be traced by those so inclined to the administration because the administration had raised all those questions about the Geneva convention, etc., this administration has gone out of its way to be respectful to Islam after that original "crusade" flub. No way the nitwit's actions could be pinned on the administration.
And if it's true that the report found evidence that some nitwit flushed the Koran, that reflects favorably on the military, not negatively, because it shows integrity in not covering it up what the nitwit did.
Secondly, if Newsweek were really trying to make the administration look bad over this story, do you really think they would have hidden it away like that with one sentence in some obscure section of the magazine and sat by idly while no one picked it up?
Michael, I understand the essential attitude toward the MSM, but this paranoid overreaction is painful to watch. If folks are just letting off steam by making outrageous charges, fine, I can understand that. But I assume that arguing them means that they really believe them. And if they really believe them, wow. |
