More on Newsweek Killer Story and Its Retraction

I totally agree with Will Collier's call for the guilty parties to be fired. I want more I want them arrested and charged with whatever crime the prosecutors can come up with.

Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has run away, broken a leg, and been beheaded by a raving mob:

Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay...

...As of yet, there's been no public word from the bogus story's authors, Mike "Spikey" Isikoff and John Barry. Since I haven't read anybody else saying it yet, I'll jump up and be the first: they should be fired, at a bare minimum. The editors who allowed the bogus story to run should be fired. Richard M. Smith, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, should resign in disgrace, or be fired himself...Read The Rest

Thanks Vodka Pundit

Michelle Malkin is also contributing to this blogswarm. She points out the way John Kerry was "protected" by Newsweek.

Just for the sake of argument let's say the Newsweek article was true. No one's pointing out that Newsweek is the same publication that had a non-disclosure agreement with the Kerry campaign last fall. The editors agreed that anything their reporters discovered while "embedded" with Kerry/Edwards would not be published until after the '04 election. So let me get this straight... Agreeing not to air Kerry's dirty laundry during a political campaign is fine and dandy. But not airing Gitmo's dirty laundry during the War on Terror would be a compromise of journalistic ethics. Got it.

Go get 'em Michelle!