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June 3, 2005
Reality & Satire

Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly, Michele Malkin and other fine authors are publishing in the online version of Human Events, The National Conservative Weekly since 1944.

Some editor at Google News did read some of their fine pieces and correctly classified the content of that website as satire.

Thanks Google. Your stock price might be much too high, but your sense of reality vs. satire is just at the right level.

Posted by b on June 3, 2005 at 13:03 UTC | Permalink
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b – you need to keep a screen copy of that page to link to, it’s just too good to pass.
I went to read the Malkin (don’t read on if you have a sensitive stomach):

Unreality-based liberals would have us believe that America is systematically torturing innocent Muslims out of spite at Guantanamo Bay. Meanwhile, our own MPs have endured little-publicized abuse at the hands of manipulative, hate-mongering enemy combatants. Detainees have spit on and hurled water, urine and feces on the MPs. Causing disturbances is a source of entertainment for detainees who, as Gen. Richard Myers points out, “would turn right around and try to slit our throats, slit our children’s throats” if released.
The same unreality-based liberals whine about the Bush administration’s failure to gather intelligence and prevent terrorism. Yet, these hysterical critics have no viable alternative to detention and interrogation — and there is no doubt they would be the first to lambaste the White House and Pentagon if a released detainee went on to commit an act of mass terrorism on American soil.
Guantanamo Bay will not be the death of this country. The unseriousness and hypocrisy of the terrorist-abetting Left is a far greater threat.

Maybe it is satire.

Posted by: Jérôme | Jun 3 2005 13:27 utc | 1

If I was being held indefinately without trial or charge for going on four years, I’d be pissed too. Poor guards!

Posted by: doug r | Jun 3 2005 13:56 utc | 2

Earlier today, I posted a message on DailyKos to the effect that most of America is like a cartoon character on fire who sniffs the air and says “Do I smell smoke?”
‘Nuff said.

Posted by: Lupin | Jun 3 2005 17:07 utc | 3

Lupin, from the Morford piece on the new open thread:

It’s all merely a crayon drawing, an intellectual wading pool, a big messy cartoon world populated by manly white good guys and fanged dark evil guys and we are good and They are evil and that’s all there is to it so please stop asking weird tricky polysyllabic questions.

-our leader.

Posted by: beq | Jun 3 2005 17:14 utc | 4

lupin- you forgot the kicker- that the cartoon character’s pants are on fire…

Posted by: fauxreal | Jun 3 2005 17:33 utc | 5

@beq: er, no I didn’t:
most of America is like a cartoon character on fire who sniffs the air and says “Do I smell smoke?”
I was thinking of his tail being on fire, actually.

Posted by: Lupin | Jun 3 2005 17:50 utc | 6

I assume fauxreal meant liar liar, pants on fire

Posted by: dan of steele | Jun 3 2005 23:00 utc | 7

Yes, I meant “pants on fire.” whatever. I was posting from somewhere else and had to run.
I had an interesting moment in a graduate class the other day. The instructor was imported b/c he’s working in the field in the subject for the class, and was was a lawyer until he got sick of it, so he also knows about copyright and first amendment issues and reading legalese.
anyway, in a mention of the issue of who owns what (as in CJR’s list of major media congloms, for one…)
the issue was put out for discussion…is this a bad thing or not? why or why not?
people said different things. these are all grad students. some have a PhD in another subject, or a masters at least. they’re not idiots, in other words, but they’re very busy people.
So, I raised my hand (yes, we had to do that because there were twenty of us trying to talk at the same time.) and I asked,
“Does anyone here watch news on tv?” Most hands went up.
So then I said, “Has anyone here heard of the Downing Street Memo?”
Total silence in the class. I waited a bit. Then I said, “The Downing Street Memo is evidence that Bush made the CIA lie about information in order to justify invading Iraq. I believe that might be an impeachable offense.”
People looked a little uncomfortable.
I said, “I just wonder why no one has heard of it.”
Then a guy said, “Oh, yeah, I heard something on CNN.”
Maybe they just don’t watch tv news enough. Or maybe there’s a problem with who owns what, and who gets to have the big presence on the FREE public airwaves.
Anyway, so, after that, whereever I was, I asked people, “Hey, have you heard of the Downing Street Memo?” Most hadn’t. I said, “I think it’s evidence that Bush lied about the invasion of Iraq. Isn’t that an impeachable offense? I wonder why it’s not on the news, or why the House isn’t investigating this?” (not at all angry, just wide-eyed and wondering.)
So, I’m encouraging everyone to start a stealth campaign to inform people that something called “The Downing Street Memo” is out there, and maybe, gee whiz, it’s something important?
…and then there’s the question of those pictures and videos of women being raped and children being raped, and General Taguba AND the Red Cross saying that 70% or so of the prisoners in Abu Ghraib were innocent of any crime. And, oh yeah, did you know there are other prisons we’re using like that in Iraq?
I’ve decided if the MSM won’t ask the questions and give information to Americans, then I’ll become part of the church of the Paul Reverists and use word of mouth to at least make people wonder, without piling on BushCo at all.
More like x-Files…The truth is out there…

Posted by: fauxreal | Jun 4 2005 22:07 utc | 8

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