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May 16, 2005
Irony: Dead, Buried, Dug Up, Strung Up, Left to the Crows, Hauled Down, Hacked To Bits, Burned
The White House has condemned a Newsweek story that alleged that US interrogators used Koran-desecration as part of their badgering of inmates at Guantanamo. Some violent protest across the Muslim world erupted upon publication of the story. The story was based partly on an anonymous source, who later retracted the Koran-desecration from his story.
In condemning the Newsweek story, press secretary Scott McClellan nailed the final nail into the coffin of the much-abused corpse of irony:
"The report has had serious consequences," he said. "People have lost their lives. The image of the United States abroad has been damaged."
So let's review. Someone made up a BS story, found a willing dupe to spread the BS to the masses, violence erupted in the Middle East. And the White House is against this?
UPDATE: He said it better.
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