Pathetic Mainstream Media Moment of the day, year, decade? You decide… (Hat tip: CAMERA)

A Damaging Quote Attributed to Israeli Commander Moshe Yaalon in 2002 is False - He Never Said it - Newspapers including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe have all carried retractions or clarifications [AT LEAST 5 YEARS LATER], either disavowing the comment outright or conceding it should not have been attributed to Yaalon.

Official Toronto Star correction:

A Nov. 14, 2004, column about the death of Yasser Arafat included an unverified quotation attributed to former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Moshe Yaalon.

Yaalon, now Israel’s strategic affairs minister, was quoted in that 2004 column as saying in 2002 that “the Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.”

Pathetic.