Update (5/23): Blogging may resume later today, definitely tomorrow, readers. I’m busy earning the palace right now. By the way, I did a radio interview Saturday afternoon on KSFO in San Francisco. Discussed was Vicente Fox’s misplaced apology to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
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Conservative bloggers, in particular, were apoplectic over the Newsweek lapse. Glenn Reynolds, whose InstaPundit.com is perhaps the most influential right-leaning blog, linked to a rant by Dean Esmay charging that “the press is not on our side in the war…. You guys are enemy propagandists. It’s just who you are. It’s nice that you’ve at least stopped pretending.” Another, the increasingly prominent religious-right blogger La Shawn Barber (?), pushed this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, writing, “Whether Americans flushed the Koran down the toilet is irrelevant. Newsweek should not have reported it, even if true. It’s common sense, people. Those journalists knew how Muslims would react! Why would you hurt your own country and risk more deaths just to report this ‘fact’? To what end???”To what end? Well, the truth — in this case, the truth about how Muslim detainees are being treated in the secret prison at Guantánamo Bay. It’s too bad that Barber has so little regard for that truth. Unfortunately, Newsweek’s regard for the truth was only slightly greater than hers. (Emphasis added)
And a link would have been nice. 
By the way, the whole world knows about the prison at Guantanamo Bay, so how is it a secret?
