NY Times Caught Fabricating Again

America's Former Paper of Record has been retailing another phony story, this time purporting to get up close and personal with the infamous hooded prisoner who was the most famous image of the Abu Ghraib scandal, The Story That Would Not Die (if you are a leftist). Well, it seems as if the Commies at Salon.com, of all places, have discovered that, as usual, the Times reporters have no clue as to what they're talking about. The AP reports the NYT's usual, mealymouthed reply:

"We take questions about our reporting very seriously, and we will carefully investigate Salon's findings," Susan Chira, the Times' foreign editor, said in Tuesday's editions. "We attempted to verify the claims of Mr. Qaissi thoroughly. We spoke with representatives of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, who had interviewed Mr. Qaissi and believed him to be the man in the photographs."

Frankly, if the NYT took its reporting "seriously," it wouldn't be peddling out-and-out fabrications as news stories. Except that in the world of the hard left, I guess one has to assume that "fake but accurate" is good enough.

But as Little Green Footballs points out, note to whom the NYT turned for verification of its fake but accurate facts: Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International—two Marxist organizations that never met an anti-Bush lie they didn't love.

Says lgf:

Interesting. When the Times wants to check a story about Abu Ghraib, they don’t call anyone in the US government. They call Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, two of the most politicized left-wing NGOs in the world.

Heh.