Ann Coulter: Newsweek dissembled, Muslims dismembered!

Ann Coulter: Newsweek dissembled, Muslims dismembered!: "No matter how I look at it, I can't grasp the editorial judgment that kills Isikoff's stories about a sitting president molesting the help and obstructing justice, while running Isikoff's not particularly newsworthy (or well-sourced) story about Americans desecrating a Quran at Guantanamo.



Even if it were true, why not sit on it? There are a lot of reasons the media withhold even true facts from readers. These include:



* A drama queen nitwit exclaimed she'd kill herself. (Evan Thomas' reason for holding the Lewinsky story.)

* The need for 'more independent reporting.' (Newsweek President Richard Smith explaining why Newsweek sat on the Lewinsky story even though the magazine had Lewinsky on tape describing the affair.)

* 'We were in Havana.' (ABC president David Westin explaining why 'Nightline' held the Lewinsky story.)

* Unavailable for comment. (Michael Oreskes, New York Times Washington bureau chief, in response to why, the day The Washington Post ran the Lewinsky story, the Times ran a staged photo of Clinton meeting with the Israeli president on its front page.)

* Protecting the privacy of an alleged rape victim even when the accusation turns out to be false.

* Protecting an accused rapist even when the accusation turns out to be true if the perp is a Democratic president most journalists voted for.

* Protecting a reporter's source.



How about the media adding to the list of reasons not to run a news item: 'Protecting the national interest'? If journalists don't like the ring of that, how about this one: 'Protecting ourselves before the American people rise up and lynch us for our relentless anti-American stories.'"