Nonsensical comments, abuse, baiting, ranting and leftist stupidity will not be tolerated.
>That's irresponsible journalism, but sadly we've come to expect that from the media.<
It's not only irresponsible, its downright criminal. It's like a bystander telling the cops that the guy in the house is armed to the teeth with all kinds of guns and after the cops blow him away, they don't find anything. When asked, the guy says "gee....maybe it was a broomstick I saw", Or maybe it was another house....but somewhere right now, I'm pretty sure that there is a guy with lots of weapons in his house, maybe it's just not this one"
And of course, this bystander doesn't get into any trouble.
It's like "diplomatic immunity".
Had it occurred to anyone at Newsweek that it's pretty damn hard to flush an entire book down a toilet? I've had some pretty big logs that clogged the crapper, but I'm sure none were as big as a book.
Bruce, there you go thinking logically. In a scatological sense.
Being a mom, I have too many times to count fished a variety of objects thrown by small hooligans out of the john. You are right, books don't flush.
I guess that simple fact didn't register with anyone else.
I'm glad to see that I am not the only one annoyed by this being plastered across the news. And a fact that it was just put on the news this morning says just how many times I've heard about it today. Get a grip people!
"And of course, this bystander doesn't get into any trouble."
Actually, Bob - he would (here in Aus', at any rate). He'd be up for the pointy end of a law suit.
And so should bloody Newsweek!!!!
Over night, I heard an American's been kidnapped outside of Kabul. I'm not laying any bets as to what's motivated that.
of course you're quite correct, James...the bystander would most likely face some kind of charges here as well....lol. I'm just very frustrated that in all likelihood, those responsible will escape any kind of consequences. Some low level functionaries might get canned, but they'll just get other jobs working for another liberal news outlet.
As for the second part of your comment, I'm not laying any bets either. Yet more blood on their hands.
Correction on that: apparently it's an Italian aid worker (they originally thought was Canadian).
The timing is no coincidence.
I wouldn't blame Newsweek for Islamic violence. It was only a few months ago that leftists were telling me that creating a democracy in Iraq will infuriate fundamentalist Muslims and inspire jihadist violence. Thus, it's our faultk according to leftist lore.
Now just because Newsweek is dumb or corrupt doesn't mean we should blame it for the typical behavior of Muslims looking for an excuse to kill in the name of Allah.
I don't think we're blaming them for the violence, Jason, we're blaming them for supplying the maniacs with yet another pretext for it (and a BS one, at that).
"Had it occurred to anyone at Newsweek that it's pretty damn hard to flush an entire book down a toilet? I've had some pretty big logs that clogged the crapper, but I'm sure none were as big as a book."
While you are no doubt correct, I think that in attempting to demonstrate how this is (at best) an extremely dubious story, we should examine it from another angle.
The fact is, it doesn't make any sense to herd a prisoner (or prisoners) into the toilet so that they can watch a Qu-ran being flushed. Doesn't it make vastly more sense that if US servicepeople were inclined to desecrate the Islamic holy book, they would simply do so in the holding cells, by either urinating on it or tearing pieces of paper free to use as surrogate toilet paper?
The whole 'flushing' story was, at the most basic level, contrived. Not because it involved US soldiers doing something unpleasant, but because it involved them doing it in a way that was both impractical and unnatural.
Newsweek were incompetent but...blame should go where it is deserved. The response was planned. Just as Ariel Sharon is blamed for the 2nd intifada, it was planned and needed a spark. There are camps all around the word with children trained in warfare for Jihad. The slightest spark will bring it on.
While it is great to blame Newsweek and deservedly so, concentrate on the absurdity of the situation. Why the hell is no-one saying to the Muslim world....You have desecrated our churches, synagogues, killed untold people for saying boo to the Koran. For goodness sake, what Newsweek did even though it was unfounded, in any other religion, would have caused a yawn. What is it that is stopping us from asking them the stfu? I ask in all seriousness?
The left is in full support of the muslim's world goal of killing jews. That is why the left will never speak out against them.
The muslim world is just trying to finish what Hitler started and the left support them 110% on it.
That support level goes up to 150% when you add in Christians and Westerners.
"Why the hell is no-one saying to the Muslim world....You have desecrated our churches, synagogues, killed untold people for saying boo to the Koran."
Because of all those people out there with awfully short-term memories, who think that the Muslims were acting 'in response' to a perceived outrage. The fact that Muslim terrorists from Hamas did the exact same thing to copies of the Bible when they briefly took over the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem a year or so ago naturally won't be mentioned.
It's just that wonderful liberal double-standard/condescension towards the third world: "Muslims don't know any better, so when they hear about one of their holy books being flushed, they just have to kill people. It's just their way."
Such logic demands that we not do anything to provoke it. The same complete abandonment of reality was recently explored by an Australian Sheik who helpfully pointed out that women who don't dress in bedsheets deserve what they get rape-wise.
It is, in a word, insanity.
MJ, for all that the Lefties demand racial equality and what not, they're the ones most engaged in what President Bush once very politely called "the soft bigotry of low expectations". Imagine how much more the Left would hate him if he not only called a spade a spade, but defined what a spade was in those lofty academic terms that they think makes them better than the rest of us.
"soft bigotry of low expectations"?
Now that's magnificent. 
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