Boy's in the Hood? More Like Out of the Picture

The New York Times in its Saturday edition, runs with the story of   Ali Shalal Qaissi, spokesman for a group of Abu Ghraib prisoners involved in a lawsuit over their alleged mistreatment - and whose photo was brandished worldwide as a symbol of the scandal - is in fact, not the person in the picture - hooded, standing on a cardboard box with wires attached to him.  While the Pentagon identified a different man as the hooded man - who had gone silent, Qaissi picked up the slack and a new gig.

Supposedly Qaissi was at Abu Ghraib, having been a town mayor and Baathist - and an opportunist, no doubt like many pols.  He got lots of media attention until Salon blew his cover with a few questions.

Now Michelle Malkin, who makes a full time living practically, exposing the MSM's flubs and biases, is having a field day this week with several jabs at the NYT on this and the Moody's supposed downgrading of the NY Times ratings - ouch!   What is too bad is that this undercuts any person with a legitimate concern or claim of mistreatment here or anywhere else in the war...