Serious readers would like to know

What in the Huff are the Huffington(writers)' huffing?

Re: Newsweek's incompetance...

[H]ere's my point: Newsweek getting "caught" like this has Karl Rove's stink all over it. Am I the only one who sees this pattern at work?...

What exactly are you suggesting, Steve? That Rove personally showed up at Gitmo & beat the crap outta the guy that made the Koran-flushing claim until he retracted?

This "KarlRove = LexLuthor" suggestive moonbattery isn't helping. And that's coming from someone who can't stand Rove either...

Props to Reasonable Steve (Verdon) on Outside The Beltway for pointing us to TinFoilHat Steve

Koran gets un-flushed, news at 11

Here's another reason why I'm not renewing my subscription to Newsweek:

Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it may have erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to victims of deadly violence sparked by the article.

The weekly news magazine said in its May 23 edition that the original source of the allegation was not sure where he saw the assertion that at least one copy of the Koran was flushed down a toilet in an attempt to get detainees to talk.

So it's a hoax, basically. Someone couldn't possibly have just up an' forgot an interrogation where a Koran went down the toilet -- considering those things are pretty thick, you'd think the toilet would've clogged.

Eh, all I ended up reading after awhile was the op-ed articles anyway. My news comes online, travels faster. Plus, unless something huge happens, magazines like Newsweek & Time end up having to fill space with celebrity stories & repetative coverage. The ones more oriented to opinionated wonkery, like Reason and The New Republic, are more useful IMO.