December 19, 2006
Editing The Greg Mitchell Way
In my last post, I mentioned an AP news release about Jamilgate that seemed to have disappeared. It's back and well, well, well.... What have we here?
Kind of curious that the AP has taken their response of Nov 28th off their website. The address that I, along with many other bloggers, linked to is this one.What kind of information was given in that response?
He has been based at the police station at Yarmouk, and more recently at al-Khadra, another Baghdad district, and has been interviewed by the AP several times at his office and by telephone. His full name is Jamil Gholaiem Hussein.Also they said in that response that they confirmed the burning via hospital and morgue workers:
AP reporters who have been working in Iraq throughout the conflict learned of the mosque incident through witnesses and neighborhood residents and corroborated it with a named police spokesmen and also through hospital and morgue workBut guess what? The new cache version has this paragraph:
AP reporters who have been working in Iraq throughout the conflict learned of the mosque incident through witnesses and later corroborated it with police.The same paragraph minus the bit about the hospital and morgue workers.
A little creative attempt to rewrite history by the AP, eh? Quite dishonest, trying to alter an already released story. Yet strangely familiar...
Put it on Kathleen Carroll's tab... and cue the flaming skull.
Update: Allahpundit makes a good argument that since the two versions vary slightly in the USA Today and AP.org versions of the Daniszewski statement, that the comment about the morgue and hospital workers many not have been omitted from the AP release today, because it might not have ever been there. I Googled every variation I could think of aobut the morgue and hospital workers statement, and all hits tracked back to the USA Today story, so I'm inclined to think he's right.
But AP isn't out of the woods by any stretch, as Allah also noted that they USA Today version of Daniszewski's statement came after the AP version. They still dropped the hospital and morgue workers, just not in the same release.
So far, the AP has dropped the hospital and morgue workers and reduced the number of burning mosques from 4 to one, and the number of dead from 24 to six, if my count is accurate. That is a lot of revisionism warranting a retraction, in my opinion.
CY
It's quite obvious now.. after reading your reports, Curt's and Bill's compendium...that I'm a bit shamed I didn't realize it or recognize it earlier. There were so many hints and clues. The last name is "Carroll".
We are in a land with things have no name, where Somebody and Nobody reside. And you can even forget your own name. A guy in a green helmet is the Mad Hatter. Things printed previously no longer appear, as if we are moving backwards in time.
We have entered the leftist world of media magic.
1) My Glass House Has No Mirrors.
Welcome.
Tis dankum and the flambum motts
Did squeeve and choste upon the sar
Wholly mezzed the everflotts
And all the moops were uberflar.
2)The Garden of Live Bloggers
Whence Bob and Curt and Michelle abound
A captain's name might not be found
And hurl reflections back again
Of what is real and what's pretend
Where lies are king and truth is drowned
3)Tweedledum and Tweedlemute
Oh Green Hatter with helmet fair
You're here, you're there, you're everywhere
Upon your smiling grief I dare impose
Please stay a while and strike a pose
Our comrades all conceal your lair.
4)Auppity Pauppity
Auppity Pauppity stole all the news
Then began libeling Christians
And slandering Jews
And all women bloggers and all of its men
Couldn't put AP together again
5)It's Their Own Convention
The Ministry of Media
Held court on truth and tedia
Henceforth, forthwith and evermore
OUR truth will land upon your door
In real time, expedia
6)Queen Katherine
How dare you plea upon my court
You plebians, now keep it short
Be thankful that I serve you gruel
And bow before the Red Queen's rule
I'm not the self-reflecting sort
7)Shaking
You feel you've caught us in a lie
A picture cropped, a source denied
An article unsourced I fear
We've somehow made it disappear
The First Amendment behind we hide
8)Who Would Have Dreamed It
We now awake to find it's true
The leftist scribes are all askew
Our nation's been in hostage hell
The truth's been strangled in here as well
Imprisoned by those craven few
Jamil has no name. He's nobody, he's somebody...and you can find him hiding between the Lion and the Unicorn.
cf - that's some sort of comment right there.
Also, Ace has some sort of update on this, though between you and him I'm not sure where this stands.
cfb. AP's reality has bordered on the absurd for quite some time. But I do believe we are through the looking glass people.
Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at December 19, 2006 04:57 PMExcerpted and linked at CENTCOM says AP’s "Iraqi police source" isn’t Iraqi police -- Part 21
Posted by: Bill Faith at December 19, 2006 05:34 PMDon't throw glassware in rock houses. Would you like onion rings with that?
Posted by: Frederick at December 19, 2006 07:32 PMAhhh, leftists. Can't live with 'em and you can't...keep them from soiling the carpet. Bad puppets, bad lemmings, bad parrots...now use the papers we put down, they obviously aren't worth reading...
Leftists live in glass houses, they like to throw stones, but apparently have no mirrors.
Are there no mirrors in your glass houses? Then you are a leftist.
(Want lies with that?)
Posted by: cfbleachers at December 19, 2006 07:43 PM?
Posted by: cain at December 19, 2006 07:48 PMKathleen Carroll's next job interview:
Q: Do you do windows?
A: You mean XP or Vista?
Q: I don't think you understand Kathleen. I mean do you wash windows.
A: ????
