Fake, but True

After the Newsweek issue, I remember the exceedingly stupid (even by talk radio standards, which is to say really, really stupid) Mike Savage blasting people for advancing what he had coined the "fake but true" defense of Newsweek's report. That is to say, that while the sourcing may have been incorrect or whatever, the content of the cliam still stands. Well, it looks like they were right and Mikey was wrong: [link]

"Pentagon officials say investigators have identified five incidents of military guards and an interrogator "mishandling" the Koran at Guantanamo Bay but characterised the episodes as minor and said most occurred before specific rules on the treatment of Muslim holy items were issued."