molly ivins on newsweek

As usual, Molly Ivins is kicking ass and taking names, this time in discussing how Newsweek is being scapegoated by the White House.

Ivins details a laundry list of journalists - including some right wing pundits like Andrew Sullivan -- who wrote about evidence of of disrespect towardthe Quran as part of U.S. military prison culture. These cites came before the Newsweek gaffe.

Newsweek was sloppy. It didn't properly source its story. But to blame the riots and deaths and now -- as the White House is -- for the U.S.'s bad image in the Muslim world, is just plain wrong.