The Newsweek Thing

Romablog makes some important observations about the Newsweek "Koran desecration" article here.

UPDATE: Dig Molly's words here - A MUST READ!

Now, I want to add this: This whole thing just positively reeks of Karl Rove. This is so like Rove, who is the acknowledged 21st century master of disinformation-based dirty-trick politics. I know, I have no proof in hand. I say it certainly looks like a typical Rovian maneuver, designed to ignite rage among the right against one of their favorite enemies, the so-called "liberal media" (they claim the mainstream media are liberal, even while they employ them as their ministry of disinformation).

I am sure the right-wing blogs are drenched in condemnation of Newsweek, just as they were following the Dan Rather memo incident, which is also widely suspected of being a Rovian trick. Interestingly, this all quickly follows some journalists' writings about how Time magazine has become a right-wing mouthpiece, extolling the virtues of such venomous right-wing hate-mongers as Ann Coulter, and also saying that at least Newsweek was still balanced. Apparently, such statements carry a heavy price in today's world of lock-down Neocon propaganda.

They're driving us underground. Fine. Fuck the mainstream, right-wing propaganda media. Seek the truth.