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White House bashes Newsweek report on Koran

Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this... "The White House said on Monday that a Newsweek report based on an anonymous source had damaged the U.S. image overseas by alleging that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay."

I think if Newsweek got this wrong someone should be fired. But let's see, what else has damaged the U.S. image overseas? Perhaps false claims of WMD's that were used to justify war in Iraq? I think that may have damaged the US image overseas...

The quote that really cracks me up is this:

"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."

Has anyone ever heard the White House admit they got the facts wrong and retract their story?

posted by Dave @ 7:53 AM