Protest Chant Du Jour

 

1. I hope and pray the next title will be “NEWSWEEK DIED AND THE PEOPLE DANCED”!!
   Death to Newsweek!!!

   Posted by babylonandon       05/17/2005  at  09:07 AM  



2. NEWSWEEK is already going to suffer big time.  When has the White House gotten overtly involved in slamming a major publication.  Good for them. 

   In a way, this is a good thing because it has drawn smack into world view what the liberal media does so well - think of its own agenda instead of the ramifications of its money-hungry and ideological precepts in their desire to spread their bias.  I daresay every publication is squeamish over this, and that is nothing but good.

   People died over this.  The public won’t let this fade away.

   Posted by Phoenix       05/17/2005  at  11:12 AM  



3. A little voice is saying that Newsweek didn’t kill those Afghanis; they were foolish enough to participate in a riot and shame on them.  My larger concern is Newsweek’s not-so-hidden agenda to throw a monkey wrench into the WOT and embarrass the US military and the President.  In knowingly doing that, that magazine and its staff have made the jobs of our troops and diplomats abroad more difficult and in some cases, more dangerous.

   That, in my mind, is giving aid to the jihadist enemy, and is treasonous behavior.  I think criminal charges should be brought.  The usual suspects will cry about their First Amendment rights, but Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that yelling fire in a crowded theater is not protected by the First Amendment.  Newsweek just yelled “fire” and in so doing committed a crime that should be prosecuted.

   Posted by dick       05/17/2005  at  11:49 AM  



4. Saudi Arabia...or Frawnce...it’s all the same to me. I am glad I don’t subscribe to Newspeak.

   Posted by Macker       05/17/2005  at  01:20 PM  



5. Good points, Dick.  It does smack of treason.  If only criminal charges could be brought.  It’s time to kick some media ass.

   Posted by Phoenix       05/17/2005  at  01:45 PM  



6. Guns don’t kill people, Newsweek kills people.

   Should editors get the death penalty

   Posted by Z Woof       05/17/2005  at  02:46 PM  



7. Newsweek wanted to strike a blow to the credibility of our brave military. If people died, so what.(their thoughts-not mine)
   The MSM is saying this whole fiasco isn’t the fault of Newsweek it’s the fault of....wait for it...George W. Bush.
   I konw-you would have never guessed.
   Newsweek needs to be tried for-I think it’s sedition!
   (If I got my definition wrong fill me in )

   Posted by Annoying Little Twerp       05/17/2005  at  04:24 PM  



8. Newsweak and the Washington Post are owned by the same company, but nothing to see here, move along......
   

   Posted by Len - KC       05/17/2005  at  05:16 PM  



9. Is there still such a thing as criminal negligence in this world?

   I must say that this entire Newspeak fiasco looks very much like it.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       05/17/2005  at  07:08 PM  



10. Found this on CNSNews.com:

    ‘Waiting Periods’ for the Press?

    (CNSNews.com) - Think about it, a Second Amendment group says: Given the violence pegged to Newsweek magazine’s erroneous report, maybe it’s time for the press to accept waiting periods before exercising its First Amendment rights, just as the press has backed waiting periods on law-abiding Americans before they exercise their Second Amendment rights. The Second Amendment Foundation calls Newsweek magazine’s apology and retraction “lame,” given the fact that people have died as a result of its May 9 “Koran-flushing” item. “Newsweek reporters and editors should be subject to the same kind of ‘cooling-off’ period they advocate for gun buyers,” Gottlieb said. “In their heated rush to print a sensational story to discredit American soldiers and the Bush administration, they started a chain reaction that ended in worldwide acts of violence.” Gottlieb wondered if Newsweek or its owner, the Washington Post, would submit stories for FBI clearance before they publish, just as gun owners must get government permission to buy a gun. “The Second Amendment is the only civil right in this country that Americans can’t exercise unless they get government permission,” he noted. “A Newsweek story just killed or injured more than 115 people, but they don’t have to face government scrutiny before turning on the press.

    Posted by quidni       05/17/2005  at  09:39 PM  



11. Hell, yellow journalism was largely responsible for at least one war that I remember.  And I’m all in favor of that “cooling-off period” that Gottlieb proposes.

    It is not unlike muzzling the brat who would scream “Fire” in a crowded theater.

    

    Posted by Tannenberg       05/17/2005  at  10:38 PM  



12. Yep, William Randolph ("You supply the pictures and I’ll supply the war") Hearst is reincarnated in the MSM today.

    I guess things were just going too well in the GWoT.

    Posted by StinKerr       05/18/2005  at  01:02 AM  

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