MSNBC Defending Newsweek?

Craig Crawford, MSNBC CBS reporter, defended Newsweek this morning on Imus in the Morning.

He wanted to know why when Newsweek asked two other governmental agencies about the Koran flushing incident, they did not respond.

Now, if they had responded that the reports were false, would Newsweek have believed them?

I doubt it.

In my opinion, Newsweek would have probably run the story with the the tagline, "George W. Bush denies any flushing."

When Mr. Imus asked if Mr. Crawford thought it was a plant (presumably by the Bush administration), Mr. Crawford definitely was not rushing to the administration's defense.