whatever happened to rounding out a story with founding factual back up?

My new travel partner? Eason Jordan reports on his new website, Iraqslogger, that his team is in Baghdad looking for Jamil Hussein. They have not found him yet–which is newsworthy in itself–and get this: He has offered to pay……

… that clearly bolsters AP’s version of the story.

How do “unidentified witnesses” who may or may not exist bolster a story?

They refused to be identified, saying they feared retribution.

So … what does this change?

Absolutely nothing.

If the AP’s got a smoking gun here, why not use it?

—Allahpundit

Because they are Liars, afraid to admit they got caught, and trying to cover their tracks.

Allah, you will tell me that I don’t have proof they are lying. Fine. After all this time, a preponderance of the evidence is that the ASSociated Press, al Reuters, the NY Times, and LA Times, and to some extent the WaPo are full of lying reporters and editors who have their own agenda and intend to bring down any power in charge of the US government because they think that is their primary function. They are wrong. They are stupid, and they are dishonest.

Whether you agree that there is evidence to support this doesn’t matter unless it is a court of law. I can judge for myself. Like the flattened houses you find after Hurricane Andrew, once you’ve seen the damage, you don’t have to have tremendous video or documentary evidence to prove the house got knocked down by a hurricane. Accept that they are liars and move on.org on down the road.

Subsunk

Riehl World View

Regarding Allah’s post here.Query: what happened to the hospital and morgue workers? That paragraph strongly implies that the locals took the corpses directly to the graveyard and the article doesn’t so much as mention a hospital o…

Regarding Allah’s post here.Query: what happened to the hospital and morgue workers? That paragraph strongly implies that the locals took the corpses directly to the graveyard and the article doesn’t so much as mention a hospital or a morgue. How…

I fear the Democrat party may be next with a holocaust plan of their own!

The AP has no credibility any more. NONE!

CENTCOM says AP’s Iraqi police source isn’t Iraqi police — Part 16 — Continued from this post.More Fine Distinctions From the Drive-By MediaDafydd ab Hugh Take a look at this Reuters headline and see if the same thing catches your…

that most of the world dislikes Jews

If I may make a correction:that most of the world dislikes hates (despises) Jews

When I hear wack jobs like Jimmy Carted say that his book was meant to help us see the other side of the conflict I GET SICK. Long ago I accepted the idea that most of the world dislikes Jews – for whatever reason. Israelis are used to lies from the world media – it is understood that Jews can take it.

Allah at Hot Air was tipped to an interesting facet of the Jamil Hussein story.  Mainly that the AP had promised to corroborate the story via hospital and morgue employee’s: A few days after Thanksgiving, back when Jamilgate was just……

… It’s Jamil redux: instead of simply producing the concrete evidence which it claims exists and planting a big cream pie in the blogosphere’s face, the AP takes the ipse dixit approach. Why?

Allapundit

Response #1:

Because they’re dumbasses!!

omnipotent on December 13, 2006 at 2:14 PM

“omnipotent,”

That got a laugh response out of me.

Thanks!

William