Hey! I just got back home and should get back to regular blogging tomorrow.
Anyway, here’s a neat catch from our blogger friends in Orlando, Jim and Rachel (who were nice enough to watch our car while we were away so you visit their blogs and be nice):
This is why I don’t watch local news, but lucky they did and caught this to share it. Apparently a lot of people have seen it now from the number of views listed on YouTube. Jim called the station, and they claimed the anchor misspoke, but it does look like he’s reading from a teleprompter.
BTW, my really dumb Saddam Hanging Dramatization video from a couple week ago apparently just got discovered on YouTube and has a ton of angry comments. Yeah, it was pretty and bad and stupid, but that wasn’t animal abuse… at least any more than normal for me.
Be honorable, ronin.
Nice comments on You Tube! The DKos butt rangers are mad at you, Frank!
No that was not an assassination. If they had dropped a grenade in Saddam’s spider hole when they found him it would have been a assassination.
For what it’s worth, I wish they had used the grenade.
No bias at all! Aren’t assassinations usually done without a trial or warning?
Given the typical intelligence of a television news “reporter”, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the teleprompter said “execution” while the “reporter” said “assassination”. Despite all the claims of journalism to be a profession, the only requirement to be a journalist is access to some medium.
Last year one of the local TV stations here in west Texas hired a college history prof to tutor their news people and give them some background so that they might have some a little historical context to their reporting. He quit after several months due to the overwhelming apathy of his charges. He wrote an editorial for the local newspaper detailing his experiences. Basically he found that these young reporters got all their information about what’s going on in the world from watching Comedy Central news parodies and Letterman every night, and he failed in his attempts to convince them to look elsewhere. These dipshits should always be taken with a large grain of salt.
Of course it was an assassination! Look closely! It was Bush under that ski mask! You can definitely see his Texas swagger as he danced a jig around the body as it swung! That’s just so — something Bush would do!
They say he was in Crawford — but, did you acually see him? I know it was him wrapping the noose around Saddam’s neck! Look close! IT WAS BUSH!
If that’s not an assassination, what is it?
Hmmm….maybe I should be a regular poster on Daily Kos!
I kind of like the idea of calling it an assisination. That term implies that it was our will that Saddam was killed. Perhaps some other dictators will be less confident in their opposition to us if they think that we can just assasinate them at any moment. Back in the old days we’d have probably just grabbed Saddam by the collar, hauled him off his throne and shot him in the head. With the trial and everything else it would be more like grabbing Saddam by the collar, hauling him off his throne and tossing him into an angry mob of his own subjects to do with him as they wish.
Either way, I think the old days are cool.
maybe he said “that’s one less ass in (that) nation”
LOL, Spacemonkey!
BTW, Frank, tell Sarah not to worry. She rocks! Those people that don’t know how to write something without adding curse words to everything they post don’t know what they’re talking about. Oh, and I think the mustache wouldn’t stick ’cause Rowdi’s nose was too wet.