Michelle Malkin and other RW blogs eat crow

[sabra]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003528116

AP's Iraqi Source Is Real: Now What Do Conservative Bloggers Say?

NEW YORK As reported elsewhere on this late this afternoon, Iraq's Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military -- and mocked by conservative bloggers in the U.S. -- is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media.

Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported by The Associated Press -- and as AP has reiterated over the past month in lengthy statements and in interviews with E&P (most recently on Wednesday).

The response from the U.S. military has been nil so far, but what about the conservative bloggers?

As recently as yesterday, Michelle Malkin, the best-known blog critic of Hussein's existence, stated flatly "the fact that there is no police captain named 'Jamil Hussein' working now or ever in either Yarmouk or al Khadra, according to on-the-ground sources in Baghdad. Late this afternoon, she posted part of the AP dispatch about the turn of events, with the comment, "Checking it out. Moving forward...."

She later sent a note to the blog of another Hussein doubter, Allahpundit, stating, "Just to clarify, I’m not apologizing for anything."

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1. Michelle Malkin is a loud know-nothing.

n/t

[lisby]

5. You're too kind. NT

:hangover:


Lisby

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6. True true

heh :)

[BootinUp]

2. "You'll have to pry...

my lies from my cold, dead fingers! So there, Naa!"

[Dr.Phool]

3. They eat shit now.

Crow would be an improvement.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Ahh, she's trying to pull a Rush tactic with the "police captain"

""the fact that there is no police captain named 'Jamil Hussein' working now or ever in either Yarmouk or al Khadra"

That's going to be her out. 'I never said there is no person named Jamil Hussein. I'm certain there a lots of Hussein's in Iraq. One of them is bound to be named Jamil. The Iraqi's are very familiar with another one named Saddam. We killed him.'

[crickets]

7. So typical

that Malkin has to go out of her way to spell out that she's refusing to apologize. Sad.

"Back in Iraq, the good news today is that Capt Jamil Hussein really does exist, and the interior ministry's spokesman has finally and officially confirmed it. The bad news is that they have issued a warrant for his arrest for 'having contacts with the media.'

"Congratulations, bloggers. He won't be talking to AP again now."

:eyes:

[NewJeffCT]

8. Their job was done, though

Their job is to create enough reasonable doubt outside the RW blogosphere that at least some people doubt AP and/or anything in AP from Jamil Hussein.

Even if Hussein is revealed and arrested, how many will actually hear about this debunking of the RW blogs?

I mean, it's been 10 years since those emails about Clinton turning down The Sudan when they offered him Osama bin Laden, yet they still make the rounds no matter how many times it's been debunked.