pot, kettle; kettle, pot...
Some quotes from this article:
Okay...I don't even know where to start here. It is so fantasically hypocritical for anyone in the administration to be crying foul, crying that false information has led to unfortunate deaths, crying that apologies have not been made. Two years we have been killing people all over the place based on bad info. Two years insurgants have been blowing up innocent civilians because of our invasionary policies. Two years we've been effectively killing our reputation on the world because of all that we've done.
Curveball anyone?
Fucking A. I just can't even believe that the White House, of all people, has come out on this...and with such admonishment. I can't believe that Scott McClellan has balls big enough to be "puzzled" that Newsweek can at least admit they made a mistake when his fucking boss hasn't had the decency to do the same. I can't believe that Accuracy in Media would have the gall to bitch that no one has been fired or reprimanded at Newsweek when the dumb fucks are highly supportive of the Bush administration and everything conservative.
Who the fuck do they believe they are? Seriously. Ugh. I need a drink. A stiff one. Lots of them.
p.s. I am finding some comfort in seeing Bush's job ratings returning to free fall (Pew has him at 43% with 50% disapproval). Are people waking up? I pray.
The White House said on Monday an inaccurate Newsweek report based on an anonymous source had damaged the U.S. image overseas by claiming U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay.
"It's puzzling that while Newsweek now acknowledges that they got the facts wrong, they refused to retract the story," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "I think there's a certain journalistic standard that should be met and in this instance it was not."
"The report has had serious consequences," McClellan said. "People have lost their lives. The image of the United States abroad has been damaged."
A conservative media watchdog group, Accuracy in Media, said in a news release that "blood is on the hands of Newsweek magazine" for the story. AIM editor Cliff Kincaid expressed incredulity that "nobody at Newsweek has been fired or even reprimanded."
Okay...I don't even know where to start here. It is so fantasically hypocritical for anyone in the administration to be crying foul, crying that false information has led to unfortunate deaths, crying that apologies have not been made. Two years we have been killing people all over the place based on bad info. Two years insurgants have been blowing up innocent civilians because of our invasionary policies. Two years we've been effectively killing our reputation on the world because of all that we've done.
Curveball anyone?
Fucking A. I just can't even believe that the White House, of all people, has come out on this...and with such admonishment. I can't believe that Scott McClellan has balls big enough to be "puzzled" that Newsweek can at least admit they made a mistake when his fucking boss hasn't had the decency to do the same. I can't believe that Accuracy in Media would have the gall to bitch that no one has been fired or reprimanded at Newsweek when the dumb fucks are highly supportive of the Bush administration and everything conservative.
Who the fuck do they believe they are? Seriously. Ugh. I need a drink. A stiff one. Lots of them.
p.s. I am finding some comfort in seeing Bush's job ratings returning to free fall (Pew has him at 43% with 50% disapproval). Are people waking up? I pray.
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