Comments on: Confirmed: Slaughtered family of Iraqi journalist not so slaughtered

By: Life Imitates Art: Journalistic Martyrdom Narratives in Iraq and Brazil « The New Market Machines

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:48:06 +0000

[...] family had been slain in Baghdad. By Wednesday the story completely fell apart. Bloggers were poking holes in the story. Also on Wednesday Reporters Without Borders was calling the incident a [...]

By: Blog-o-Fascists

Blog-o-Fascists — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:30:06 +0000

Another Phony ‘Massacre’ in Iraq…

NewsBusters.org – Exposing Liberal Media Bias

Reporting news in third-world countries like Iraq can be a difficult task, especially for Western journalists who are unfamiliar with the language and the culture of the region. As a result, many times the…

By: mram

mram — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:30:40 +0000

Too bad Kawwaz Goebbels (no, I am NOT pulling a Godwin with this comparison) will not end up with the AP photographer, where he really belongs.

By: highhopes

highhopes — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:14:54 +0000

Mark these words…..

The “Kawwaz Massacre” will be a fundimental talking point by the anti-war crowd for months if not years despite the fact that it has been so utterly de-bunked.

Moonbat after moonbat will get up there and make comments like “George Bush says that the violence in Iraq is subsiding. Well Mr. Bush tell that to Dia al-Kawwaz! ….”

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:07:33 +0000

Zombie Iraqis?

Carl Rove, you magnificent bastard!

By: KelliD

KelliD — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:01:06 +0000

Maybe he was trying to embarrass the U.S. by showing security in Baghdad is still poor enough to admit the occasional massacre

Or…he’s hoping for a job at TNR.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:53:18 +0000

Kawwaz lied! No one died!

By: countywolf

countywolf — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:22:56 +0000

It’s a shame our guys are dieing for clowns like this Kawwaz creature.

By: kcluva

kcluva — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:22:18 +0000

HA!! I’m not quite dead yet!

Of course you are!

By: Talon

Talon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:17:10 +0000

“BRING OUT YER DEAD!…….(CLANG)……BRING OUT YER DEAD!”

By: peski

peski — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:13:16 +0000

Lol, great line from the post I quoted above:

yet virtually all westerners—all except a handful of college professors—at least profess to respect objective truth as a value

By: peski

peski — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:11:51 +0000

You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth.

See an interesting post on Arab culture and truth here:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2002/06/000037.php

In particular, I question whether respect for truth plays the same role in the Islamic Arabs’ psyches that it does in ours.

By: saiga

saiga — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:01:13 +0000

Gateway Pundit smelled a rat.

They are all rats, just some bigger than others.

By: Vanceone

Vanceone — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:56:06 +0000

Whoops! Abdul, why didn’t you warn me people might, you know, check? Isn’t this the same media who fell for all those other Israel/US bashing incidents without checking? What went wrong, I ask you!

By: Mazztek

Mazztek — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:53:41 +0000

Well, to be fair, they were shot with paintballs.

They sting a bit.

By: thirteen28

thirteen28 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:53:26 +0000

“News of my family’s death has been greatly exaggerated” stated Al-Markuh Abu Twain.