Newsweek gets the Koran story wrong? Bull

It appears that the STORY today is the Newsweek debacle. It seems that many bloggers (and others) do not buy into the supposed "mistake" concerning the flushing of a Koran down the toilet. Some feel that Dumbya and the administration "placed a call" to their corporate buddies and got the retraction printed. Dumbya was not thrilled that there were riots and unrest in Afghanistan over this, and needed to have the "cause" squelched. AMERICAblog , Eschaton and Informed Comment are all over this. The Light Of Reason delves into it much deeper.

Censorship is what they’re after, and don’t let them tell you otherwise. They announced this goal unmistakably at least a year ago. (Here’s the classic, regret-filled formulation: “And here’s a question: Freedom of the press, as it exists today and didn’t exist, really, until the 1960s) is unlikely to survive if a majority—or even a large and angry minority—of Americans comes to conclude that the press is untrustworthy and unpatriotic. How far are we from that point?”) Of course, they “regret” that censorship might be necessary. It’s a terrible shame and all that. But damn it, if magazines like Newsweek ARE GOING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED…well, what can we do? We obviously have to shut them up. They brought it on themselves. It’s their own damned fault. Of course, we’d like to have a free press, but THEY’RE GETTING PEOPLE KILLED!