Firedoglake Wrong Again - Parrot False Rice AP Headline
By 186 on Apr 21, 2008
Does anybody on the left side of the web even bother read the articles they circle jerk blog over?
Think progress gets the ball rolling yeserdary by echoing and twisting the false AP headline:
Secretary of State Rice Mocks Muslim Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a Coward
Now Firedoglake jumps on the Nutroot headline morphing express claiming Condoleezza Rice called Muqtada al-Sadr a coward. Notice the cute little headline.
Firedoglake - Did Rice Just Provoke a Little War for McCain?
The Bush Administration has denied for years that we are bogged down in an Iraqi civil war, but now there is no doubt we’re not only in the middle of a Shia-on-Shia war but carelessly inflaming it in ways that could easily benefit Iran. The last thing this explosive situation needs is more gasoline from Secretary of War Rice, who went out of her way to taunt al-Sadr by calling him a coward.
Vet Voice gets it wrong as well.
McClatchy fabricates facts too.
Problem is she said no such thing, here is what Condoleezza Rice actually said:
“I know he’s sitting in Iran,” Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr’s latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. “I guess it’s all-out war for anybody but him,” Rice said. “I guess that’s the message; his followers can go too their deaths and he’s in Iran.“
The Washington Times, (as seen in above screen-shot) seems to have gotten a little closer to the true content of Rice’s remarks.
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