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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Straining to make a point
Let us now turn our attention to two seemingly normal people (well, one of them, at least) whose seem a bit obsessed. Of course, Professor I Just Link'em gives them his seal of approval.
First off, we have the BBC Obsessive with this:
MORE CHEATING AT THE BBC? A reader sends this:
You tell me.
I ran across this on an Afghan website I frequent. Specific URL of
forum thread is --
Link
Link to BBC story (Afghans 'live in climate of fear')
...NOTE THE PICTURE with this story...
HOWEVER....
Yahoo says...."Afghan women and girls watch the arrival of Afghan
President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan"
Yahoo link
SAME PICTURE? Uncropped.
See the smiles they had to crop out to put it in the BBC piece?
Is this common practice?.
Um. Okay. Here are the pictures again. BBC and Yahoo.
Boy, if that doesn't knock the shit out of the Zapruder film, I don't know what does.
Of course Glenn smiles benignly and nods approvingly:
At the BBC? It's starting to look that way. The cropping certainly makes the photo fit the headline better, doesn't it? (If you'll follow the Yahoo! link you'll see that they're actually craning for a better view of Hamid Karzai; the actual story hook is a $1 billion aid package for Afghanistan, which doesn't seem especially worrisome.) I'd call this a minor example of the BBC's tendency toward spin, but it's more evidence of just how pervasive that is.
Yeah. Pervasive.
Moving on, Glenn links to pretend economist and all-around general flake, Donald Luskin:
ALL SEXED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO: Is Paul Krugman really George Bush's secret weapon?
In yet another futile effort to attack Paul Krugman, and thereby defend the honor of our great and glorious leader, Luskin leads with his most serious charge: creeping Mo Dowdism...
Paul Krugman wrote in his New York Times column Tuesday that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay "reveals a powerful contempt for the public." Krugman's in a snit over something DeLay said last week, addressing a group of college Republicans in Washington:
To gauge just how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier.
Never mind that Krugman took two words out of what DeLay really said, without an ellipsis (that kind of slop is S.O.P. at the "newspaper of record" nowadays). What counts is that what DeLay said was actually pretty funny.
Whoa there, Sparky. Krugman took two words out of DeLay's quote?
Let's look again at what Krugman wrote:
To gauge just how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier.
Here is what DeLay said with the all-important missing two words highlighted:
To try to gauge just how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier.
Thta's it. That's Luskin's best shot. Sad thing is, that's better than most of Luskin's "Truth Squad" ramblings. Maybe Luskin should look into the domain name www.poorandreallyreallystupidandsadandludicrous.com. I hear they're holding it for him.
In the meantime, as Tom DeLay might say, Glenn Reynolds "problem is not a lack of patriotism. It's a lack of seriousness. "
Heh. Indeed.
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