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12/17/2006

E&P Leaps All Over the Possible “Escape” for the AP

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 10:31 am



Editor & Publisher has leapt all over the possibility that Marc Danziger may have found Jam(a)il Hussein. I’m not sure how long it took them to notice the controversy to begin with, but it took them less than 12 hours to notice the possible solution for the AP . . .

. . . but then, would it really be a solution for the AP? Maybe in terms of public relations, but not in terms of truth. (Query: which matters more to the AP? Don’t answer that!) As Marc notes — and the Editor & Publisher piece doesn’t! what a surprise! — finding that such a person exists doesn’t answer the many lingering questions about the story.

Was the AP‘s story accurate? I don’t think so. Does Editor & Publisher care? And if the story is completely wrong — and there is such a person as Jam(a)il Hussein, Legit Iraqi Cop — doesn’t he have some ‘splainin’ to do?

Stay tuned to Winds of Change for more on this. I tried calling Marc a few minutes ago on the phone, but couldn’t reach him. I’m guessing he’s busy putting this thing together.

3 Responses to “E&P Leaps All Over the Possible “Escape” for the AP”

  1. Has “Capt. Jamil Hussein” Surfaced?…

    CENTCOM says AP’s Iraqi police source isn’t Iraqi police — Part 19 — Continued from this post. Breaking: Capt. Jamil Hussein located?Allahpundit Armed Liberal says he might have a positive ID — at the Yarmouk police station, no less, just…

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  2. “finding that such a person exists doesn’t answer the many lingering questions about the story”
    Great point. Many in the media will treat this the same way they treated Dan Rather’s phony document story. Once a type of machine that existed in the 70’s was identified as being capable of possibly reproducing the document, many MSM people acted like the documents were authentic nad believe that to this day.

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  3. […] But the left hopes to try to embarrass righty bloggers into ignoring all these questions, as if the fact that Jamil Hussein is a policeman ends the whole inquiry. But it doesn’t, as I noted when we thought Marc Danziger had found the guy: [F]inding that such a person exists doesn’t answer the many lingering questions about the story. . . . [I]f the [AP] story is completely wrong — and there is such a person as Jam(a)il Hussein, Legit Iraqi Cop — doesn’t he have some ’splainin’ to do? […]

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