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Michelle Malkin notes that details of Guantanamo detainees mishandling their own Korans were buried in this AP report. Hey, at least the Koranic self-abusers were mentioned ... which is more than you can say about reports at ITV, Scotland’s Sunday Herald, Radio Free Europe, the UK Daily Telegraph, Japan Today, the Detroit Free Press, the Iranian Qur’an Newsagency, Newsday, Haaretz, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
The New York Times gave one line to the detainees’ desecration—some 1208 words into its 1290-word piece. Jimmy Hoffa ain’t buried as deep. Higher priority is given to this:
The military released the findings of the investigation about 7:15 p.m., Eastern time, well after the broadcasts of the network television evening news programs. A Pentagon spokesman, Bryan Whitman, denied that the military was trying to bury bad news late on a Friday night, a tactic often used by government agencies.
The military has nothing on the NYT when it comes to burying bad news. Even The Guardian is fairer, running the terrible information after only a few paragraphs. The LA Times has greater detail, also flagged far earlier than in the NYT. Other reports also note, although not to the extent of the NYT, that the military released this report late Friday. Here’s CBS:
The findings, released after normal business hours Friday evening and after the major TV networks had aired their evening news programs, are among the results of an investigation last month by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba.
CBS is complaining about the untimely release of an investigation triggered only a month ago. The same network took 114 days to complete its Dan Rather probe—after CBS news president Andrew Heyward said it would be released in “weeks, not months”. These latest attempts to smear the military (by avoiding or downplaying inconvenient news, and suggesting some kind of cover-up) will ensure further entertaining survey results:
The American public has more confidence in the military than in any other institution, according to a Gallup poll released this week.
Seventy-four percent of those surveyed in Gallup’s 2005 confidence poll said they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the military - more than in a full range of other government, religious, economic, medical, business and news organizations.
The Gallup organization noted that public trust in television news and newspapers reached an all-time low this year, with 28 percent of responders expressing high confidence in them.
Can you imagine this hysteria with Christian Bibles? Don’t answer that- it’s rhetorical. It would never happen.
Multiculturalism and its fetishes again aid anti-Americanism.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2005 06 05 at 01:11 PM • permalinkI read that one of the detainees tore up his Koran and said he was tired of being a Muslim.
Can’t say as I blame him.
Next is the ACLU’s plans to release the rest of the AbuGhraib pics.
God, I loathe these people. They said we have to know what is being done in our name.
Pompous self righteous sanctimonious twits.
We have a right to see the pictures of 9/11 but they won’t show them.
Here’s a plan. Take the detainees into a private room at Gitmo. Tell them they can leave, right now, right this minute, if they just deface a Koran.
Betcha we fill that plane up damn quick.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 05 at 06:55 PM • permalinkTimely article:
The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania recently released a study showing only 45 percent of the respondents to the Annenberg poll think journalists “get their facts straight.”
Journalists lament rising credibility crisis in news
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 06 05 at 09:01 PM • permalinkDoes anyone remember the Palestinian invasion of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where hostages were taken and there was a “stand off” that went on for over a week?
My recollection is that the altar in the Church of the Nativity was used as a kitchen, one of the walls was used as a urinal, and that in another section of the church that was used as a latrine, pages of the bible were used as asswipe.
The reason the MSM and their “progressive” allies are all worked up about these minor “mishandlings” of the Koran is it wants to portray the US in the worst possible light. These are people who ordinarily express contempt for religion, especially if it’s christian. But, exceptions are made for jihadis and sacred muslim texts.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 06 05 at 11:00 PM • permalinkThe Left irrevocably tips its bloody hatemongering anti-freedom hand, with its preposterous and astoundingly hypocritical hollerings over what some soldier somewhere might have done to a mass-produced copy of a holy book. Most of the Left would just as soon that all holy books vanished into thin air. Also astounding is the Left’s obtuseness about how it is revealing itself. Like a cartoon character wandering off a cliff and hanging suspended in midair, not having yet looked down.
And for goodness sakes, left-dominated Hollywood makes no war movies. No movie about 9/11/01. Just one TV movie on that, the terrorist planning. No major movies on the 9/11/01 attacks, no major movies on EITHER of the Gulf Wars, no major movies on the Afghanistan War. Nothing.
It might INFLAME us! We might—who knows—write letters to politicians and demand that they support the anti-terrorist war and the democratization policy! OMG!
Really, this whole Koran abuse deal is the media’s revenge for us calling out Newsweek. They’re chasing this ridiculous story down as hard as they could not just to get at the Bush administration but to poke a thumb in the eyes of their critics.
Their goal is to get everyone to say “ALRIGHT, already, there was Koran abuse, now STFU” so they can get back to their usual “fake but accurate” basis of truth.
I guess it is progress of a sort, they used to just ignore criticism.
I am seriously disturbed by this Koran abuse. As we warn on Cold Mountain, all kinds of bad Gulag-type shit could happen—dog-eared pages, coffee rings, creased spines, mishelving, marginalia. We need Amnesty International in there NOW.
I was raised up with Spiderman, so having the press maligne my heros is nothing new to me.
What I find shocking and unforgivable is that 45 percent of the respondents to the Annenberg poll still think J. Jonah Jameson is credible. What a bunch of retards.I’ll stick with Spidey.
Posted by papertiger on 2005 06 06 at 12:34 AM • permalinkNoticed that during S.B.S. news last night they did a story on the good sheik but no mention of the good news they had translated . A few items later they had senator Hill speaking about our involvement in Iraq.I quote presenter. “In the face of INCREDIBLE violence,Sen Hill is STILL upbeat about Australian involvement in Iraq.”
Seems like they just don’t want their own translated views to get out into the community do they? The community that pays them and whom they are legally and ethically obliged to serve.#12 - “And for goodness sakes, left-dominated Hollywood makes no war movies. No movie about 9/11/01”
What about The Sum of All Fears? The book: Set in the middle east with Islamic terrorists nuking a US football match. The film: Can’t offend Islamic terrorists so villians re-cast as neo-Nazis. Pathetic. No wonder it flopped.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 06 06 at 03:06 AM • permalinkWalter - Sum (the book) was written well before 9/11. And the movie was probably written and planned before 9/11, also, since it came out in 2002.
I can, though, think of one major movie about a Gulf War: Three Kings. Good flick, and it argues that we betrayed the Kurds and others who rose up to overthrow Saddam after GWI by not supplying them assistance or marching on to Baghdad. I read that as an endorsement of GWII, even if the filmmaker himself might argue otherwise today.
Posted by Matt Moore on 2005 06 06 at 04:07 AM • permalinkAnd the MSM so upset by urine on the koran yet totally ignore stories such as this-
Exclusive interview with Brian O’Connor, an Indian Protestant accused of evangelising activities Charged with “Christian evangelisation”, Brian Savio O’Connor spent seven months and seven days in a Saudi jail, at times in chains and tortured
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1976ok sorry guys
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3439that should work and link to the story at the bottom of the page.
To be sure if he had been irish they would have tortured him for being “on the potteen”.Matt Moore — Affleck said they deliberately changed the Arab terrorists in Sum to Neo-Nazis to show their “racial sensitivity.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 06 at 10:02 AM • permalink*sigh* Whatever happened to Golan-Globus movies?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 06 at 10:03 AM • permalinkRichard - I believe that, I just don’t think the decision had anything to do with 9/11 since they’d made that change long before then.
They probably would have made exactly the same decision after 9/11, only faster and with less argument.
Posted by Matt Moore on 2005 06 06 at 11:09 AM • permalinkMan I hate Affleck, he’s just one of those people you want to punch in the face… a lot.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 06 at 11:38 AM • permalinkHow about the Soviet president who is a good and humane guy ( a la Putin?) and totally misunderstood by the rednecks of the CIA etc.
Ben afflict of course ( the sensitive socialist) is the only one who can see this in a sea of dumb defence hawks whose characters are out of Dr Strangelove (blow up the Rusks).
The terrorists are all light skinned of course - you wouldn’t want anyone to think one might be an Arab.
And of Course it is all the fault of those Joos who leave A bombs lying around the NEGEV. Yes their bookkeeping is even worse than the ruskies.
Who ever said Jewish Accountants were A1 and on the front line of the Israeli army because they really know how to charge?
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TV news never even mentioned the apology for one of the incidents, simply gave a laundry list.