“We’re not saying it absolutely happened but we can’t say that it absolutely didn’t happen either.”

– Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker

(Tip of the hat: Daniel G.)

Scrappleface spoofs: “In an effort to help in the grieving process, the magazine’s publisher said that immediate family members of the dead would receive a free 90-day trial subscription to Newsweek.”

La Shawn Barber keeps tabs on liberal apologist Jim Lampley and others.

David Frum asks, “[I]sn’t this whole terrible incident a reminder of why American journalists owe the US military the benefit of the doubt when the facts are uncertain?”

Yes, yes it is.

Gerry Daly weighs in:

I think it is even more important that it serves as a reminder of one of the things we are fighting against– a dysfunctional culture that thinks that violence and murder is an acceptable response to being offended (among other things).

No question about that.

Newsweek lied*. People died.