AP’s Iran Nonsense Getting Downright Adorable

Jason Ditz, December 02, 2012

So late last week when John Glaser took apart the latest scare piece from the Associated Press’ George Jahn, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was mocking it as “amateurish and technically incorrect.” I didn’t personally notice that the graph was flawed on first sight, but it did look like the sort of thing I could’ve photocopied out of half a dozen of my college textbooks. Except then the graph would be right.

So now that the weekend has rolled around, Jahn is back with his “oops but seriously” defense for the first mistake, insisting now that even though the graph looks like (And indeed is) an amateurish hoax, he’s betting that the Iranians just made the graph look stupid and wrong intentionally, because that’s just how cagey they are. And that somehow the very wrongness of the graph “supports suspicions.”

Fool Jahn once, shame on you, fool Jahn in every single article he’s written on the subject in the last several years shame on Jahn.



25 Responses to “AP’s Iran Nonsense Getting Downright Adorable”

  1. Kevin
    December 2nd, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    Its amazing how this annoymous unnamed country (Israel) fabricates these type of crap and feeds it to US media and no one dares to decipher and and analyze the facts….whatever happened to Journalism and fact finding?…The media is totally unaccountable which is very scary!!

    You would think after Iraq's WMD and all the deaths and destruction there will be a new generation of people who stop these crap before it even gets published.

  2. Canadian
    December 2nd, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    Google "operation mockingbird".

  3. peacewjustice
    December 2nd, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    Some anonymous country should leak documents to the AP showing maps of illegal Israeli settlements all over the occupied West Bank… Or the BS press could just do their job and tell the american people about the monstrous apartheid West Bank, decades in the making…. With US support, cover, and tax deductible donations.

  4. Ray
    December 3rd, 2012 at 4:16 am

    Thats' Very sad that some anonymous country leaks the documents.

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    December 3rd, 2012 at 10:44 pm

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  6. MvGuy
    December 4th, 2012 at 6:19 am

    It will be interesting to see what THEY have when the IAEA inspects THEIR bomb program…& bombs…

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    December 4th, 2012 at 6:29 am

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  8. Sandra
    December 4th, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    Thanks for the comment

  9. Sandra
    December 4th, 2012 at 1:16 pm

    It is sad!!

  10. Leonila Silvia
    December 7th, 2012 at 1:38 am

    I could’ve photocopied out of half a dozen of my college textbooks. Except then the graph would be right.

  11. Tristan Coward
    December 10th, 2012 at 2:29 am

    The sort of thing I could’ve photocopied out of half a dozen of my college textbooks.

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    They will attack Iran, that's for sure, but I think that they will use Israel this time.

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