It's hard to go back and write a reasonable perspective of the collected works of the Duchess; wading through all the dreck just overwhelms one. But sometimes she lobs a softball out there that just begs to be whacked. Remember his odes to the "traitorous" Beeb? Remember, rant, rant, rant, they're anti-'murkian blah blah blah (this is just a smidge)
BAATHIST BROADCASTING CORPORATION: Here's how they headlined yesterday's news about the killing of Saddam's sons: "US celebrates 'good' Iraq news." Yes, that "good" again. The Beebers must be truly sad to see two mass murderers brought to justice. One BBC journalist even pronounced that the deaths might cause an intensification of anti-American violence. Wishful thinking.
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Abolish it, I say
Well, since she's sort of been, uhhh...wrong, about most of the BBC war reportage (that pesky "anti-American" violence stuff for instance), now she's set her sights on The Financial Times, pretending again to be the Dupont Economist-in-Residence or at least on the internets. I'm sure that the FT folks are just all a-twitter over that.
Dan Drezner parses a recent Financial Times headline. Check his comments section too. I have to say the FT is now such an Anti-American paper, I'm beginning to wonder if its financial reporting isn't part of the bias.
I guess that part where you know, the news service of another country might report from the point of view of say, their countrymen must have just whizzed right by the Duchess. Sort of like that property tax bill, or something.
posted by Jo Fish on 01.26.05 at 09:52 PM
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Does anyone actually READ Sullivan? Hell, the only time I ever hear of this guy is when someone uses him to shore up some stupid argument, or to mock him.
posted by: suburbanrefugee on 01.27.05 at 03:04 PM [permalink]
God, he really sucks up to Republicans doesn't he? Is he even allowed to vote?
posted by: merl on 01.28.05 at 12:15 PM [permalink]
Reading Sullivan is kind of like looking at a car wreck: it's really terrible and you know it's wrong to look, but morbid curiosity gets the better of you and it's kind of hard to look away. I always read Jo or Sullywatch or John at Bythebayou to sort of cleanse myself afterwards.
posted by: nolatab on 01.28.05 at 05:06 PM [permalink]
