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NEWSWEEK DISSEMBLED, MUSLIMS DISMEMBERED!

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 19 May 2005
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"Newsweek Dissembled, Muslims Dismembered!"

By Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 19, 2005

When ace reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop of the decade, a thoroughly sourced story about the president of the United States having an affair with an intern and then pressuring her to lie about it under oath, Newsweek decided not to run the story. Matt Drudge scooped Newsweek, followed by the Washington Post.

When Isikoff had a detailed account of Kathleen Willey’s nasty sexual encounter with the president in the Oval Office, backed up with eyewitness and documentary evidence, Newsweek decided not to run it. Again, Matt Drudge got the story.

When Isikoff was the first with detailed reporting on Paula Jones’ accusations against a sitting president, Isikoff’s then-employer, the Washington Post - which owns Newsweek - decided not to run it. The American Spectator got the story, followed by the Los Angeles Times.

So apparently it’s possible for Michael Isikoff to have a story that actually is true, but for his editors not to run it.

Why no pause for reflection when Isikoff had a story about American interrogators at Guantanamo flushing the Quran down the toilet? Why not sit on this story for, say, even half as long as NBC News sat on Lisa Meyers’ highly credible account of Bill Clinton raping Juanita Broaddrick?

Newsweek seems to have very different responses to the same reporter’s scoops. Who’s deciding which of Isikoff’s stories to run and which to hold? I note that the ones that Matt Drudge runs have turned out to be more accurate - and interesting! - than the ones Newsweek runs. Maybe Newsweek should start running everything past Matt Drudge.

Somehow Newsweek missed the story a few weeks ago about Saudi Arabia arresting 40 Christians for "trying to spread their poisonous religious beliefs." But give the American media a story about American interrogators defacing the Quran, and journalists are so appalled there’s no time for fact-checking - before they dash off to see the latest exhibition of "Piss Christ."

Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas justified Newsweek’s decision to run the incendiary anti-U.S. story about the Quran, saying that "similar reports from released detainees" had already run in the foreign press - "and in the Arab news agency al-Jazeera."

Is there an adult on the editorial board of Newsweek? Al-Jazeera also broadcast a TV miniseries last year based on the "Protocols of the Elders Of Zion." (I didn’t see it, but I hear James Brolin was great!) Al-Jazeera has run programs on the intriguing question, "Is Zionism worse than Nazism?" (Take a wild guess where the consensus was on this one.) It runs viewer comments about Jews being descended from pigs and apes. How about that for a Newsweek cover story, Evan? You’re covered - al-Jazeera has already run similar reports!

Ironically, among the reasons Newsweek gave for killing Isikoff’s Lewinsky bombshell was that Evan Thomas was worried someone might get hurt. It seems that Lewinsky could be heard on tape saying that if the story came out, "I’ll (expletive) kill myself."

But Newsweek couldn’t wait a moment to run a story that predictably ginned up Islamic savages into murderous riots in Afghanistan, leaving hundreds injured and 16 dead. Who could have seen that coming? These are people who stone rape victims to death because the family "honor" has been violated and who fly planes into American skyscrapers because - wait, why did they do that again?

Come to think of it, I’m not sure it’s entirely fair to hold Newsweek responsible for inciting violence among people who view ancient Buddhist statues as outrageous provocation - though I was really looking forward to finally agreeing with Islamic loonies about something. (Bumper sticker idea for liberals: News magazines don’t kill people, Muslims do.) But then I wouldn’t have sat on the story of the decade because of the empty threats of a drama queen gas-bagging with her friend on the telephone between spoonfuls of Haagen-Dazs.

No matter how I look at it, I can’t grasp the editorial judgment that kills Isikoff’s stories about a sitting president molesting the help and obstructing justice, while running Isikoff’s not particularly newsworthy (or well-sourced) story about Americans desecrating a Quran at Guantanamo.

Even if it were true, why not sit on it? There are a lot of reasons the media withhold even true facts from readers. These include:

A drama queen nitwit exclaimed she’d kill herself. (Evan Thomas’ reason for holding the Lewinsky story.)

The need for "more independent reporting." (Newsweek President Richard Smith explaining why Newsweek sat on the Lewinsky story even though the magazine had Lewinsky on tape describing the affair.)

"We were in Havana." (ABC president David Westin explaining why "Nightline" held the Lewinsky story.)

Unavailable for comment. (Michael Oreskes, New York Times Washington bureau chief, in response to why, the day the Washington Post ran the Lewinsky story, the Times ran a staged photo of Clinton meeting with the Israeli president on its front page.)

Protecting the privacy of an alleged rape victim even when the accusation turns out to be false.

Protecting an accused rapist even when the accusation turns out to be true if the perp is a Democratic president most journalists voted for.

Protecting a reporter’s source.

How about the media adding to the list of reasons not to run a news item: "Protecting the national interest"? If journalists don’t like the ring of that, how about this one: "Protecting ourselves before the American people rise up and lynch us for our relentless anti-American stories."

Forum posts

  • I figure I have to rattle the cage with this article. Get the leftist menagerie all riled up.
    Enjoy the article,
    Gardis
    USA
    "Liberalism & Terrorism: Different Stages of the Same Disease" (Ann Coulter)

    • I’m glad to see you admit that you *are* in a cage!

      If there are people in Iraq and Afghanistan who have the same polemic attitude and style as Ms. Coulter, I’m not surprised that there were riots. I’d like to see how she would react if she saw an article in a Muslim magazine discussing someone flushing a copy of the Bible down a lavatory while interogating a Christian prisoner. I should imagine the flames would be seen several miles away!

    • Muslim to do list:
      Arrest Christians in prayer meeting—
      Destroy Bhuddist statues—
      Bomb soldiers, police and civilians on street—
      Riot over false report of Holy Book desecration—

      Christian to do list:
      Turn the other cheek—
      Turn the other cheek—
      Turn the other cheek—
      Turn the...
      Wait a minute. I’m running out of cheeks!

  • Right on Ann! I hope Isikoff and his leftist editors lose their jobs... due to lack of readership.

    • Ann Coulter???? Ha, ha, ha. The brainless bimbo of the ignorant right.
      In any country with even a semblance of journalistic standards she wouldn’t get a job writing the menus for McDonalds.
      She is to truth what Gardis is to reasoned debate.... A complete stranger.

    • Any country with journalistic standards? I know the europeons don’t have any, they’re all leftists, there isn’t any kind of reasoned debate because those euros don’t have any diversity in their opinions much less reason. Ann Coulter just exposed how shoddy Newsweeks editorial and news reporting are and what do they do? Instead of owning up to their stupidity and promising to do a better job, they just blame other people for not getting back to them. Journalistic standards indeed!

    • As always, Ann proves to be accurate, entertaing and right on point. She is the best, that’s all that can be said!!

    • Why, cause the truth HURTS too bad? Everything in this column is the PAINFUL TRUTH. And you can’t handle it.

      — Crimefighter

  • 4.jpg

    "leftist"...it’s like watching the keystone cops bumping into each other. "I’m a righty your a lefty, together we’re a happy family", it’s a puppet show, with one puppeteer.

    OMG, not anne coulter, who the fuck is that? some anorexic being fed state propaganda...wow, so crushing. Earth to gardis, she’s old, tired, and not even decent to look at, we’re talking peacock here for crying out loud. She reminds me of Joey Ramone. Put a mustache on her and she can take late night trips with gannon in the white house.

    I wonder who he was servicing those late nights? Sitting under the oval office desk? open wide george. Well shit, his dad is a pedophile what do you expect. But enough about that. You can do better then annie get your guns can’t you? I can.

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    Ann Coulter Sticks Her Entire Leg in Her Mouth

    http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0206-23.htm

    And she’s talking about newsweek? LOL she’s a pseudo racist to sell books to the white men that need someone to hate, she fulfills that need. How $stupid$ can you be.

    "Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president." anne coulter

    Christians, she’s funny, like this one?

    http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6091

    How about this Christian Theoligan and Scholar:
    David Ray Griffin’s historic April 18th speech to the "Muslim, Jewish & Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison is now available online. Broadcast by CSPAN and entitled "9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?" this ovation-drenched teaching marked the first time the full case for 9/11 truth has ever been presented to a national audience.

    http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-release-of-griffin-in-madison.html

    This is a great video if you want to know what the PNAC is:

    http://www.knife-party.net/flash/barry.html

    But forget that, you know we’re doing something right when we keep them here day in and day out, it’s like shooting fish in a barrell.

    The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney
    Broadcast C-B-C- TV - 10/06/04

    "In Dick Cheney’s World, what he says is frequently more fiction than fact"

    This is the story of Dick Cheney’s vision of America.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1018.htm

    The Power of Nightmares - Part I

    Baby It’s Cold Outside

    In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.

    The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm

    I love rubbing salt in a wound.

    Breaking the Silence: Truth & lies in the war on terror

    http://www.freedomfiles.org/movies/35_mb_pilger_breaking_the_silence.wmv

    Americas Third World War

    How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against third world countries

    John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980’s.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm

    Exposed: The Carlyle Group

    http://www.dissidents.us/Video%20Page/Carlyle.htm

    *Holds hand to ear* What was that "gardis"?

    I’m a PO’d conservative, your worst nightmare.

    Anything else?

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  • Buddy, (or Lady, if you’re a female),
    Ann Coulter has more brains in her pinky than you have in your whole body, trust me. She’s educated, smart, witty, and doesn’t take herself so seriously, like you morons on the left (i.e., Jane Garofolo, what, does she have maybe a high school diploma?? if that??).

    Thank God for Ann Coulter.

    • Don’t call me buddy...... not until the devil’s shovelling snow. Ann Coulter. Educated... and yet always wrong. Smart.... go on, admit it, you’ve got a crush on her. Witty.... she wouldn’t know wit if it fell out of a tree and ate her sandwiches. And God is welcome to her anytime..... the sooner the better. She’s a shrill, screeching right wing halfwit with the insight of a brain damaged cockroach.

  • Gardis ( a dumb name, by the way) should enlist in the armed forces and volunteer for Iraq. Isn’t that what any red-blooded American should do? And, take Coulter with him. She’d make a good camp whore for the boys.

    PS: Only by the grace of the Bellaciao comrades is he able to post his Bushshit. His mindless propaganda wouldn’t last a nano-second on any of the Indy Media sites.

  • ...confirmed similar behavior in the past. U.S. interogators have used the holy book of the muslims in order to disgrace their prisioners.

    The Nazis did the same to the Thora!

  • Muslim To Do List:
    Arrest Christians in prayer.
    Destroy Buddist statues.
    Blow up soldiers, police and civilians.
    Stage riot over false report of damage to Holy Book...
    Christian To Do List:
    Turn the other Cheek.
    Turn the other Cheek.
    Turn the other Cheek.
    Turn the...
    Wait a minute, I’m running out of cheeks...

  • Muslim to do list—
    Arrest Christians in prayer meeting-
    Destroy Buddist statues-
    Bomb soldiers, police and civilians on street-
    Riot over false report of Holy Book desecration-
    Christian to do list—
    Turn the other cheek-
    Turn the other cheek-
    Turn the other cheek-
    Turn the...
    Wait a minute, I running out of cheeks...

  • I’m not surprised—Leftist/Liberal censorship of my comments...

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