The Right Spin

Newsweek falsely reported that a copy of the Koran was flushed down the toilet by American soldiers during the interrogation of captured Muslim terrorists. This resulted in a riot in Afghanistan that lead to the death of 15 people. Newsweek recently published a retraction stating that this part of their story was false. They had no evidence that this event ever occurred. They close with "Top administration officials have promised to continue looking into the charges, and so will we. But we regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst." They extend sympathies? That's it? Okay, let's see how sympathetic they really are. What monies do they intend to offer up to these victims? What do they intend to do to offer penance? A big bag 'o nothin'. You know it. I know it. But all is fair in love and bashing war, right?

Michelle Malkin has more.

Marc Landers also asks the poinent question "What does the media do when Muslims use the Bible for toilet paper?"

And, as always, thanks to Dean for giving me something to steal.

Update:

Dadahead makes a good point: Is the Right acting the hypocrite by blaming Newsweek more so than those who actually committed the crime? I'd have to say that the perception could be just that but I also think it's also the venting of frustration. The left-news media has been so virulently anti-Bush that the fact a fabricated piece of evidence (or, to give the left and Mr. Dadahead the benefit of the doubt, unverified evidence) was published, and that this evidence lit a powder keg leading to 15 deaths seems to give firm proof of what many in on the Right has felt all along - the media has swung so far to the left that it has now become dangerous. And that is doesn't care. So, I think this knee-jerk reaction will pass and people will out all blame where it belongs.

A commenter on Dada's site proves, however, that the left itself is more than capable of being a hypocrite too with:

"I'm going out on a limb here, but could the issue at hand have anything at all to do with Afghani frustration at having spent spent the last general under nearly constant warfare and/or foreign occupation and resentment over the continued American military and administrative presence in their country?"

So, it's not Newsweeks' fault, it's not the people who killed others' fault, it's America's fault? The Liberal Avenger, did you even read Dada's post?