It's the headline and the lead paragraph that get the message out. The folks at the Associated Press know this as well as anyone.

From the headline and beginning of this story it appears that General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in open mutiny against civilian authority: more...

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Heh.

They were quoting Carl Levin (D), not the report itself. And yes, there's a BIG difference.

"Almost all the quotes were wrong."

Lets see if the networks update and correct, because the headlines have been screaming since this morning.

View screenshot of correction.

UPDATE: The entire 'sphere is all over this, but Ace is just on fire.

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The real story, of course, is the exact opposite of what is reported in the media.

The MSM isn't even hiding their biases anymore.

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Hot Air has a rather damning video indicating that CBS war reporter Lara Logan was either a) willfully complicit or b) catastrophically ignorant in/of the fact that CBS was using clips from an Al-Qaeda propaganda video not only as footage, but also as a conduit to denounce the US forces. More here.

Previous Jawa Report coverage here.

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Bob Ownes appears to have pinned down the real name and identity of fabled international man of mystery Jamil GG (XX) Hussein. He's toying with the idea of reavealing this information to the public.

He's hearing arguments for or against outing him in the comments. What do you think?

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THEMEMRIBLOG.ORG.

Thanks to Andy McCarthy for the heads up.

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Charles Johnson, to his endless amusement, is keeping watch on the BBC message board Stalinists who are trying to shut down any discussion of his site. Check out this insanity: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Its almost as if the leftwingnuts there don't want the public to know the terrible, terrible truth about LGF:

We've told you once, we've told you a million times. Leftwingnuts don't want competition or debate. They want absolute control of what you can see, talk about, think about, etc.

Feel the tolerance for dissent.

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Allow me to make a politically correct Associated Press article semantically accurate. Let's look at the original article.

Gunmen Slay Shiite Official in Baghdad (AP)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Drive-by shooters on Sunday killed a high-ranking Shiite official at the Iraqi industry and mines ministry in western Baghdad, the ministry said.

Eight gunmen in two cars blocked the way of Adil Abdul-Muhssin al-Lami, who served as a general director of the ministry's engineering directorate, as he was traveling in the Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Dakhiliya.

His 27-year-old daughter, who was an engineer at the ministry, a colleague and driver also were killed in the attack that occurred as al-Lami was heading to work.

Insurgents are relentlessly targeting high-ranking Iraqi officials who are seen as collaborators with the U.S. forces.

Last Wednesday, Iraq's higher education minister, a Sunni, escaped an assassination attempt after gunmen opened fire on his motorcade as he was traveling in southern Baghdad, killing one of his guards and seriously wounding another.

This pains me that I have to do this after 9/11 but some people still believe the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans will protect us. Allow me to present you with the edited rendition:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Drive-by shooters Terrorists performed a drive-by shooting on Sunday killed resulting in the death of a high-ranking, innocent, Shiite official at the Iraqi industry and mines ministry in western Baghdad, the ministry said.

Eight gunmen terrorists in two cars blocked the way of Adil Abdul-Muhssin al-Lami, who served as a general director of the ministry's engineering directorate, as he was traveling in the Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Dakhiliya.

His 27-year-old daughter, who was an engineer at the ministry, a colleague and driver also were killed in the attack act of terrorism that occurred as al-Lami was heading to work.

Insurgents Terrorists in Iraq, who come from all over the Middle East, are relentlessly targeting high-ranking Iraqi officials who are seen as collaborators with the U.S. forces Iraqis that are trying to better themselves and their great nation.

Last Wednesday, Iraq's higher education minister, a Sunni, escaped an assassination attempt after gunmen terrorists opened fire on his motorcade as he was traveling in southern Baghdad, killing one of his guards and seriously wounding another.

Now read my version and the AP's version and tell me which version is more honest and open.

Originally Posted at

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8,000-12,000 show up for an anti-war tantrum? A1, above the fold, and an "s" added to "thousand" to make it seem like there were really untold throngs in attendence. Lead item on every major network and local newscast in the nation all weekend long. Four pages of fawning coverage - every rant repeated, every slogan blared, a moonbat blathering nonsense about the 60's every other sentence.

Tens of thousands more pro-lifers show up on the previous weekend at the same location for an anti-abortion rally?

Page A-10. Two pages. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

ht: Lifelike Pundits

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Republican leaders need to step up to the plate and out the partisans masquerading as journalists as the President's father has:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so unrelenting he sometimes talked back to his television set.

"It's one thing to have an adversarial ... relationship -- hard-hitting journalism -- it's another when the journalists' rhetoric goes beyond skepticism and goes over the line into overt, unrelenting hostility and personal animosity," former President George Bush said.

The time for treating the mainstream media "journalists" with diplomacy has passed. Non-DNC candidates should be challenging the Press at every opportunity.

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Bob Owens has written a detailed letter to the Borad of Directors of the AP regarding their shifty and shoddy coverage during the Jamilgate saga.

Don't wait up for the reply there, Bob.

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LGF is hot on the trail of an AP stringer Maamoun Youseff story about a Blackwater helicopter being shot down and its passengers being shot "execution style."

They appear to be weasling out of that original report of an "execution style" shooting, claiming that those reports "could not be verified."

Interesting. Jamil XX (GGG) Hussein's stories, though, don't have to be verified. Its Jamil XX (GGG) Hussein, after all.

Stay tuned for further developments.

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AllahP wants to know what you lefties who thought the story was over think think now. Or maybe they're having a tough time figuring out how to spin these on-site photos and video to make another argument about how inaccurate reporting "doesn't matter."

So I guess now Malkin's footage, pictures and footage which blew the lid off the "picture" the AP tried to paint in their infamous-although-now-thoroughly-shown-to-be-error-riddled report (or 60) sourced to Jamil XX (GGG) Hussein should just be ignored.

The new reality? The burning-out-of-control-doomed-Iraq-myth/story turned out to be a damaged mosque dome, a few bullet holes and damage from hand-made molotov cocktails limited to a few rooms in an abandoned mosque. All four mosques are still standing and several still functioning. No bodies, no burning six, no additional verification, etc.

Where is Kathy Carroll? Perhaps hiding in the confines of her air-conditioned offices? How about Greg Mitchell? These people seemed awfully interested in this story up until now...at least, it appears, interested when they felt it would serve their political and 'professional' ends.

Their silence tells us all we need to know. Mysteriously, the nutosphere is also quite silent (in precise synchronicity with the corporate media.)

Stay tuned.

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An excerpt:

Prior to our story being published, we contacted the Obama camp for comment. They had none…and were petrified about the story. Only when FOX and several national radio talk show hosts jumped on the story, did they issue their denials. We stung the Obama people by doing what journalists should do: follow the truth, no matter where it leads. Insight reports on political intelligence without partisanship. We have run countless stories embarrassing and damaging to President Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. We have few friends in the White House—and that’s exactly the way we like it.

Finally, let’s examine Kurtz’s claim that he tried to phone and e-mail the editors, but received no response. First, he called on a Sunday when there is nobody in the Insight office and did not leave a phone message, so no one can verify whether he really called or not. We learned on Monday that he did send an e-mail on Sunday afternoon, the day before his story went to print. This was not a genuine effort to get a real comment from us. He was simply covering himself before publishing his hit piece. This is precisely the kind of irresponsible journalistic practices that we teach our interns not to do.

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~ Bumped for the trolls who may have missed it. ~

Hot Air has the latest development on Jamilgate, including firsthand reporting from ground zero of the Jamilgate saga.

The AP used the former, and they obviously (after seeing the video and pix) meant the latter. Here's an additional Baghdad Report from Hot Air's Bryan.

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LGF has been covering the story of what motivated the killer of Turkish journalist Hrant Dink. Early reports of the story included an eyewitness report that the killer, Ogun Samast, shouted "I shot the infidel!" or "I shot the non-Muslim!" as he fled the scene. (Given that Mr. Samast is unlikely to have shouted it in English, either translation is likely pretty close.) If Ogun Samast did say something to this effect, and if Ogun Samast is a Muslim, then the killing of Hrant Dink would appear to be another religiously-motivated killing in the vein of Theo van Gogh.

Most of these early reports have since been quietly edited to remove the "infidel" quote.

Now, if the early reports have been edited because the early reports have since been shown to be in error, don't the news agencies have an obligation to correct any misperceptions that may have been created by the earlier erroneous reports?

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They're saying that it never happened. Michelle Malkin will have video of the "4 mosques" tomorrow. In the meantime, she has pictures of one of the "destroyed" mosques the day after the "attack" - with worshippers praying inside the not-destroyed mosque. Here's her NY Post column on the affair.

The burden is now on the AP to explain and straighten out its shoddy reporting on this incident, since they have steadfastly refused to do so thus far. They can't pretend it isn't happening or that it will go away. Other sources that aren't the AP have questioned, documented inconsistencies in the AP's reporting and have provided photographic evidence suggesting that the story was wildly exaggerated and inaccurate.

Confederate Yankee has much more here and here. Michelle's pictures of the not-quite-destroyed mosques are here. Curt at Flopping Aces has a lengthy update, too.

What's the AP/nutosphere's reaction to all of this?

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That's what we thought.

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*Bumped, do to very large ego of Sith master......scroll down for a few newer posts.

Occasionally we actually bring original content to the world. Yeah, it's seldom, but it does happen. Mostly that original content is in the form of interviews, entertainment, or analysis, but from time to time we get mindblowing tips that I figure are sure to generate some coverage. And by coverage, I mean hits.

So, what do you (the readers) make of the fact that we were tipped to a third Saddam Hussein video posted at a Baathist website, and yet more than 24 hours later are we remain the sole media outlet to have it? Even more mindnumingly stupifying is the fact that not a sole media outlet has even reported that there is a third video!

I understand why blogs don't need to cover this. I understand why you, the readers, don't want to watch said video. And I understand if some of you think it is below the dignity of this blog to post it (even though we are a blog....which calls itself, you know, The Jawa Report, so how dignified did you think we were in the first place?). But is anyone seriously suggesting that it is beneath the dignity of the MSM to cover a Saddam Hussein corpse video? more...

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Evil Neeeeocon bloggers reporting useful information from Iraq - 1

Chickenlittle anti-war bloggers sitting with their big, fat backsides in their air-conditioned offices - 0

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UPDATE: Gateway Pundit wonders if the AP was played.

A few days old. Flopping Aces lays it out.

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He wants to ram the failed "Fairness Doctrine" down your throat. This is desperately needed because not all media outlets are transforming into DNC-approved propaganda outlets, per the left's agenda. That is unacceptable to the Democrats in Congress.

Here we have a socialist liberal threatening to "straighten out the media" using government mandate. Don't let leftists lecture you about media anything - they're the ones trying to eliminate viewpoints they find disagreeable by passing laws to do so.

Liberals in power attempting to regulate who can say what, where, when, how and to whom. What this really is, as anyone paying attention knows, is an attack on talk radio. This is because liberals are unable to compete adequately in the radio format (discounting NPR, CBS radio, Air America, Democracy Now radio, etc.) when it comes to listeners, advertising dollars earned and profit turned.

Keep an eye on this Stalinist little weasel as he flails and tries desperately to ram this through the Senate and President Bush. Ain't gonna happen, but just so we know which political party tries to limit and direct speech to what they want to hear, when they want to hear it, and what can be said for what price...

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It somehow, some way slipped by Kathy Carroll and her legions of credible and infallible wordsmiths.

Damn bloggers. Just shut up. SHUT UP.

Exit tidbit: Jamil XX Hussein has declined to comment.

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Noel Sheppard has a great post detailing a liberal blog campaign to censor opinions on KSFO radio that they don't agree with.

Mike Stark, the Kos thug who tried to physically shove himself through security to lunge at and scream at George Allen during his capmpaign, is prominently featured and intimately involved. Surprise.

Read the whole post to see how liberals who don't agree with what a radio station says try to censor it and shut it down rather than form a viable alternative.

And no, the terminally bankrupt Air America doesn't count (apparently) as an alternative.

ht: LGF

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The Plame non-leak, non-issue story garnered a headline and two news cycles per day on every cable network in the US for three years.

Former Clinton National Security Advisor stealing sensitive national security documents and shredding them with scissors after lying to investigators about it?

Not so much.

The question is now -why the double standard? Here's the PDF of the oversight committee report that found all this out. Read up, and write your local news outlet asking them why they aren't investigating this flagrant breach of national security by Clinton's Condi Rice.

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Two quick things.

First - Daffydd ab Hugh (responding to Patterico) posted a logical and helpful exploration presenting three scenarios to factor into your Jamilgate diet. Daffydd is betting on #2:

What are the possible cases?

1. There really is a Police Captain Jamil Hussein -- under that name -- working at the Khadra police station in Iraq, and he was AP's source, just as they claimed;

2. There is a human working at the Khadra station who was AP's source, but his name is not Jamil Hussein, and he may or may not be a police captain;

3. Or else AP had no source at all at Khadra, and who cares whether someone named Jamil incidentally works at there?

the current data suggests there was no Capt. Jamil Hussein, as the AP claimed. There apparently was a police captain operating under an undisclosed pseudonym with undisclosed—and perhaps multiple—motives for doing so. He provided at least two unsubstantiated stories to the AP, and at least 40 that were unreported by other news sources. He provided reports of incidents outside the jurisdictions of the two stations where “Jamil X” apparently worked, which should raise questions of the quality of Jamil X’s knowledge of those alleged incidents as well. At worst, the bloggers who questioned the physical existence of such a person were “fake, but accurate”—which is the best that can be said of the AP and Jamil X himself.

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