It's time to ask some serious questions

For instance, why DID Newsweek retract their story? It's not as if this was a Newsweek exclusive. The Koran story has been known and widely reported for years prior to this, based on interviews from released detainees ... that's plural detainees not singular. There's strength in numbers. The difference in the Newsweek story was they had GOVERNMENT corroboration. Of course the government source was only to quick to retract his confirmation of the incident, after the administration got to him I suppose, or maybe that was the plan all along.

Keith Olberman had a very good analysis of the whole sordid mess on Countdown last night. I suggest you read the transcript. It's not posted yet but I will update when it becomes available.

Olberman has also called for Simple Scottie McClellen's resignation on his blog, as well he should. Scottie's fake outrage is all too transparent and Keith rightly calls him on it as well as on Scottie's direct contradiction of General Myers statement regarding the Newsweek's story being directly responsible for the Middle East protests, something General Myers dismisses. Which is it Scottie? Reponsible or not responsible.

"The violence that we saw in Jalalabad was not necessarily the result of the allegations about disrespect for the Koran, but more tied up in the political process and the reconciliation process that President Karzai and his cabinet is conducting in Afghanistan," Myers said.

Finally DKos reports on how hypocritical the Whitehouse is, in slamming Newsweek for single sourcing a story. It seemed to be just fine for them to go to war based on a single suspect source and his so called intelligence.

Just to get this straight it was ok to go to war and have over 1600 American deaths and untold thousands of civilian deaths based on a single disreputable source but it's NOT ok to write a story that has many non government sources but only one waffling government source who apparently caves under pressure. OK, I get it. I don't like it but I get it.

There is some serious dirt here, I am sure of it. I hope the media FINALLY realizes that unless they call them on it the will become redundant. WAKE UP, DON'T LET THEM DO THIS TO YOU. DON'T LET THEM SILENCE YOU. Based on Newsweek's spineless response I don't hold out much hope. They were only too quick to cave. I think we can blame Rathergate for that, don't you? You see, it's working .... this intimidation ... Just look at CNN turing into a news magazine channel instead of a NEWS channel, look at the MSNBC lineup which is all punditry little news during primetime, and lets not forget the fact that many well resourced, factual stories don't even warrant a mention on the MSM anymore especially if they are critical of the current administration, cause well the masses just aren't that into REAL news anymore apparently. Bullshit. The reason your ratings are falling dipshits is because you don't bother to report the news anymore. People are abandoning you for the internets where there is still a chance to see the real news if you know where to look.

Man, I am so far into tin foil hat territory it scares me. But I simply cannot ignore the evidence before me. Can you?

IA