“About those ‘300 dead women and children'”

Rusty nails the MSM on this one:

Remember the 200 -300 civilians that were allegedly killed by a U.S. airstrike against top Taliban leaders? The Taliban claimed that what the U.S. really bombed was a busy market. Upon checking the claims of heavy civilian casualties, NATO investigated. Number of actual civilians killed: ZERO.

It’s not so much that the Taliban makes these claims that bothers me, it’s that the Western press actually reports them.

Zero as opposed to 300? At least they were close, right? I mean, I can understand the MSM’s confusion: the number “0” does appear in the number “300” (twice, in fact). And who among us hasn’t confused zero with 300 at one point or another in our lives?

The MSM just blindly accepts the Taliban’s talking points without checking for themselves, continuing their trend of laziness in journalism.