http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/11/30/ap-caught/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/11/30/ap-caught/comment-page-1/#comment-49033 BizzyBlog » Tonight’s Jamil ‘Captain Tuttle’ Hussein and AP (Always Paranoid) Update Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:51:53 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/11/30/ap-caught/#comment-49033 [...] UPDATE: Other voices – - Brutally Honest: “Ballsy bastards, eh?” - USA Today’s On Deadline has an update. - Hot Air: “…. nothing more than “fake but accurate” with the “fake” part as yet unsettled.” - SeeDubya at Junkyard Blog: “The answer appears to be that he doesn’t really exist, at least as a Police Captain. But even if he did, AP’s defense is no defense. It just affirms their incompetence.” - A Syria(s) insight from Dan Riehl. - Michelle Malkin, at the current end of her day-long post, has confirmed with Centcom that Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf Al-Kenani is legit. See AP? That wasn’t so difficult. - Dean Esmay totally misses the point in so many ways, and his commenters let him have it. Not four mosques, Dean — ONE. No names of five victims, etc., etc. - Stephen Spruell at NRO’s Media Blog says “it remains a standoff” (perception, yes; reality, no), but adds this question: “Given our enemy’s goal of driving us from Iraq by undermining domestic political support for our mission there, shouldn’t the AP be making more of an effort to explain fully to its readers just who the hell this guy is?” Well yeah; that’s why it is objectively NOT a standoff, Steve. - Blue Crab Boulevard: “(AP) could have actually done themselves real harm this time. One can but hope.” - Don Surber’s demand from earlier today stands: “OK, show him. Until then, I can only conclude he does not exist.” - Confederate Yankee: “In short, we aren’t questioning all of AP’s stories based upon a single story, we are questioning a broken methodology that lead to such a story. There exists in the media’s reporting in Iraq no effective editorial checks at the very root level of reporting, to verify that the most basic elements of the story are indeed factual, much less biased.” - Ace: “AP dodges the issue, stating they merely erred by calling him an official police spokesman. But that’s not the charge: The charge isn’t that he’s not a spokesman. It’s that he’s not a cop at all.” - Allah at Hot Air, in the process of vetting the acknowledged difficulties with name similarities, characterizes the final paragraph of the AP report (the Saddam comparison) in his inimitable way as  “undistilled douchebaggery.” [...] [...] UPDATE: Other voices – – Brutally Honest: “Ballsy bastards, eh?” – USA Today’s On Deadline has an update. – Hot Air: “…. nothing more than “fake but accurate” with the “fake” part as yet unsettled.” – SeeDubya at Junkyard Blog: “The answer appears to be that he doesn’t really exist, at least as a Police Captain. But even if he did, AP’s defense is no defense. It just affirms their incompetence.” – A Syria(s) insight from Dan Riehl. – Michelle Malkin, at the current end of her day-long post, has confirmed with Centcom that Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf Al-Kenani is legit. See AP? That wasn’t so difficult. – Dean Esmay totally misses the point in so many ways, and his commenters let him have it. Not four mosques, Dean — ONE. No names of five victims, etc., etc. – Stephen Spruell at NRO’s Media Blog says “it remains a standoff” (perception, yes; reality, no), but adds this question: “Given our enemy’s goal of driving us from Iraq by undermining domestic political support for our mission there, shouldn’t the AP be making more of an effort to explain fully to its readers just who the hell this guy is?” Well yeah; that’s why it is objectively NOT a standoff, Steve. – Blue Crab Boulevard: “(AP) could have actually done themselves real harm this time. One can but hope.” – Don Surber’s demand from earlier today stands: “OK, show him. Until then, I can only conclude he does not exist.” – Confederate Yankee: “In short, we aren’t questioning all of AP’s stories based upon a single story, we are questioning a broken methodology that lead to such a story. There exists in the media’s reporting in Iraq no effective editorial checks at the very root level of reporting, to verify that the most basic elements of the story are indeed factual, much less biased.” – Ace: “AP dodges the issue, stating they merely erred by calling him an official police spokesman. But that’s not the charge: The charge isn’t that he’s not a spokesman. It’s that he’s not a cop at all.” – Allah at Hot Air, in the process of vetting the acknowledged difficulties with name similarities, characterizes the final paragraph of the AP report (the Saddam comparison) in his inimitable way as  “undistilled douchebaggery.” [...]

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