BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE
PRINCESS TINY MEAT'S SUPPORTERS REPEATEDLY INSIST THAT BARACK CANNOT BE CRITICIZED UNTIL HE GETS INTO OFFICE. SINCE THE ELECTION, HE'S CAVED ON THE TREATY MASQUERADING AS A STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT, HE'S BEEN SILENT ABOUT THE ASSUALT ON GAZA, HE'S NOMINATED LESS WOMEN TO HIS CABINET THAN THE CURRENT WHITE HOUSE OCCUPANT, HE'S DONE HIS REACH-AROUND WITH HOMOPHOBIC RICK WARREN AND HE'S GONE ON YET ANOTHER VACATION.
AND YET BARACK CANNOT BE CRITICIZED.
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE LOGIC IN THAT?
BARACK CANNOT BE CRITICIZED UNTIL HE IS SWORN IN, INSISTS MARKOS AND THE OTHER SQUEAKY-VOICED DWARFS WHO LIKE LIKE JAUNDICED-FACED WOMEN, BUT BARACK CAN BE PRAISED BEFORE HE'S SWORN IN.
AT THE SO-CALLED "INDEPENDENT" OF LONDON, RUPERT CORNWELL PISSES HIS TIGHTY-WHITEYS AS HE GETS MORE AND MORE EXCITED ABOUT HOW BARACK -- EXCUSE US, "THE COMING OF BARACK"!" -- IS LIKE FDR! OR JFK! OR . . .
RUPERT PANTS AND PANTS AND FINALLY JIZZES IN HIS Y-FRONTS.
REMEMBER, BARACK COULDN'T BE CALLED OUT IN THE PRIMARY BECAUSE IT WAS (A) RACIST AND (B) HE WAS JUST SAYING WHAT HE NEEDED TO GET THE NOMINATION. BARACK COULDN'T BE CALLED OUT IN THE LEAD UP TO THE GENERAL ELECTION BECAUSE WE 'HAD' TO HAVE A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE. NOW IT'S AFTER THE ELECTION AND THE GIRLY BOYS LIKE MARKOS (WHO SPENT YEARS SLAMMING AND SLIMING ALL DEMOCRATS BEFORE HIS SUDDEN 'CONVERSION' IN NAME ONLY) STILL WON'T LET PRINCESS TINY MEAT BE CRITICIZED.
IT MUST BE HARD FOR THE BLOGGER BOIZE TO BE SUCH LIMP DICKS WORSHIPPING AFTER TINY DICKED BARACK.
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
It's the new year so the press would traditionally contribute their 'looking back' pieces. But why do that and be bound by the facts when it's so much more 'creative' to look to the future and pen fantasies? In today's Washington Post, Anthony Shadid decided to inform that, "The war in Iraq is indeed over"; however, events on the ground begged to differ. Even ten years ago, a reporter trying to do what Shadid has done (war over by press fiat!) would have been the laughingstock of the press corps. Such are the times that Shadid is actually 'outshined' by the actions at another outlet. Leila Fadel. Yeah, she's back in Iraq. And offering all the 'value' and 'pertinence' as Yvette Mimieux did when she decided to team up with Ali Akbar Khan because what the world needed then (1968) was more bad music with poetry (Baudelaire) read over it badly. Flowers of Evil was what those 'geniuses' ended up with and it might as well be the title of Fadel's latest which contains this hidden 'gem': "It's difficult, however, for hope to return so quickly after so much bloodshed." Fadel is, no doubt, very proud of that line just as Yvette knew Flowers of Evil would set the world on fire. But, for the record, bad poetry doesn't have a damn thing to do with journalism. Fadel might try to squeeze that sentence into some sort of crack-pot, Chicken Sop for the whatever but it doesn't belong in reporting.
But we're not getting reporting, we're hearing the sounds of the Up With People singers warming up as they prepare for the ultimate wave of Operation Happy Talk. "There's no doubt," insists Fadel straining to hit notes beyond her range -- but, in fact, reporting is all about doubts. Reporting is all about questioning. Save this garbage for your EST seminar (Erhard Seminars Training) because it's quackery, it's not reporting.
Doubt it? Here's Fadel seeing 'change,' "U.S. officials already have moved out of Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace, which they'd used as their headquarters since U.S. troops took control of Baghdad, and are occupying a brand new, sprawling 104-acre U.S. embassy complex that's America's largest in the world." And this tells us what, Fadel?
It appears to tell us that the largest Embassy in the world is preferred to Hussein's musty, old castle. It appears to tell us that, as was stated long before construction on the Embassy began, the US would move into the Embassy as soon as it was possible. Delays came about because shoddy work was done. And, no, not all of it has been fixed. But those are details that escape Fadel who writes as if she's willing McClatchy's Baghdad operation to shut down. Leila, thinking "happy thoughts" might have allowed Peter Pan to fly, but there's no evidence to suggest it will do the same for a news outlet.
Once upon a time, reporters were expected to deal in facts. Today, it's all word games. Could someone give 'em all Scrabble for their down time and instruct that they practice their trade at all other times? Chief among the foreign outlets needing to unwrap a Scrabble board: AFP. The agency's Benjamin Morgan offers a lede about how Iraq's airspace ("a swathe" of it) is being handed back to it by the US. A swathe? Over 29,000 feet and higher was already controlled by Iraq. Thereby explaining that amazing space program al-Maliki launched. What? He didn't launch one? No, of course not. And it doesn't mean a damn thing that 29,000 to 24,000 feet were returned to Iraq as the new year began. Why is that? AFP quotes Amer Abduljabbar Ismail (Minster of Transportation) stating that "the complete control of our airspeace will not be finished until 2011, when the US military leaves." Poor, deluded, sick liar. The US isn't leaving in 2011 and, if they did, Iraq having control of it's air space wouldn't mean a damn thing because, as was repeatedly revealed in Baghdad press conference after conference this fall, Iraq air force will not be ready in 2011. They freely admitted -- American and Iraqi spokespeople -- that Iraq would require the US well past 2012.
So many novelists, so damn few reporters. It's as though the 90s trend which found the 80s literary set -- Jay McInerney, Tama Janawitz, Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, et al -- invading the feature profile resulted in a serious case of creative envy among the press corps. (I know and like Jay and will note that he had showed true talent in non-fiction writing. I know others who attempted that feat and will pointedly not bother to make a similar statement regarding the 'merits' of their contributions.)
The Green Zone and Basra airport 'handovers' are worth one sentence outside the real estate listings. If that. Timothy Williams (New York Times) wisely does not attempt to make it the thrust of his report and includes some details on the area that is thought to be the one to watch (including thought to be the one to watch by Barack's transition team):
Mosul, located about 250 miles north of Baghdad, is in a region contested by Sunni arabs and Kurds, and where Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown Sunni extremist group that American intelligence agencies say is led by foreigners, has been active.
The city's Christian minority was the focus of repeated attacks last year, forcing thousands to flee, although many have returned.Nineveh Province is also the buffer zone between the central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's far north. About 5,000 American soldiers are stationed there.
Reuters reported this morning that tribal Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Salih was entertaining a group of "Sunni Arab tribal leaders" for lunch when a bomber arrived and detonated his or her bomb -- killing his/herself and wounding somewhere between 42 and 100 people (depending on the source). And the death toll? BBC reports at least 30 dead. Anthony Shadid and Saad Sarhan (Washington Post) report, "Iraqi officials said the assailant, a relative of the sheik, was a familiar presence around the house, making it easier for him to pass unsearched through an entrance usually reserved for women in the conservative town of Yusufiya, about 12 miles south of Baghdad." And, yes, it does have to do with upcoming elections (scheduled for January 31st). Sami al-Jumaily (Reuters) explains the get-togehter was "a feast for Sunni Arab electoral candidates and tribal leaders". When you read the garbage about war over and the latest waves of Operation Happy Talk get up to the neck, remember what the 'reporters' forget: The UN has warned repeatedly that violence will increase as the provincial elections approach. Even the US State Dept has echoed those warnings.
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