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Saddam's Capture Makes 'Reality' TV Finally Get Real (Wonder Land)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Friday, December 19, 2003 | DANIEL HENNINGER

Posted on 12/19/2003 7:40:53 AM PST by presidio9

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Let me count the things Saddam Hussein is not. Saddam is not Michael Jackson. Saddam is not Scott Peterson. Saddam is not Kobe or Robert Blake. He isn't Strom Thurmond's illegitimate daughter. He isn't Dennis Kozlowski's birthday party, and he didn't win "Survivor."


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: henninger; viceisclosed; wonderland

1 posted on 12/19/2003 7:40:54 AM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9
Thanks for posting this. It made my day.
2 posted on 12/19/2003 7:46:39 AM PST by sarasota
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To: presidio9
before Michael or Kobe or Scott come back and knock Saddam down to mere mentions in the news menu

Too late.

FoxNews is broadcasting live, Kobe, ad-nauseum.
Turned over to MSNBC--after the commercial, Michael Jackson.


The news [yeh, right] channels are obsessed with Kobe, Michael, Scott and seem to think Saddam capture, Iraqi war, Afghan war, War on terrorism are just minor inconveniences in their real news about Kobe, Michael, Scott.
3 posted on 12/19/2003 7:47:59 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: presidio9
Boo, hiss, sick the blogs on him!

LOL, that line was funny. Kind of pathetic, in that for the liberals, thats just about all they have left.

4 posted on 12/19/2003 8:01:17 AM PST by Paradox (Cogito ergo boom.)
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To: sarasota
When Bob Bartley died last week Dan Henninger took over as the greatest living editorial columnist in the world.
5 posted on 12/19/2003 8:01:38 AM PST by presidio9 (protectionism is a false god)
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To: presidio9
Based on this editorial alone, I concur.
6 posted on 12/19/2003 8:04:12 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota
It has often been said that The Wall Street Journal has the only editorial page that actually sells newspapers. Look for Henninger's "Wonderland" column every Friday.
7 posted on 12/19/2003 8:07:46 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: TomGuy
Bottom line: sex sells.
8 posted on 12/19/2003 8:12:16 AM PST by sarasota
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To: presidio9
I will--and hopefully it will be posted here as well.
9 posted on 12/19/2003 8:13:07 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota
For more Henninger, click the keyword "WONDERLAND" beneath the article. He has something of a cult following on FR
10 posted on 12/19/2003 8:23:25 AM PST by presidio9 ("By extending the reach of trade, we foster prosperity and the habits of liberty." -Adam Smith)
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To: presidio9
Thanks again. I see that I can't access the WSJ without a subscription so I'll be counting on my fellow Freepers to keep me posted.
11 posted on 12/19/2003 8:34:51 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota
Thanks again. I see that I can't access the WSJ without a subscription so I'll be counting on my fellow Freepers to keep me posted.

Au contraire. Most of the editorial page is posted free at opinionjournal.com

12 posted on 12/19/2003 8:55:17 AM PST by presidio9 (HAPPY IMPEACHMENT DAY -12/19/1998)
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To: presidio9
Merci bien.
13 posted on 12/19/2003 9:13:58 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota
Thanks for posting this. It made my day.

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Made mine too!! Especially to know now that it was Saddam in the long run who ratted out, through his briefcase papers, all those terror cells ready to strike our soldiers. It's got to be a burden (slightly) lifted from the soldiers. Still dangerous, but it's GOT to be better than it was.

Poor, Poor DemocRATS. They're running out of things to complain about.
14 posted on 12/19/2003 9:56:23 AM PST by gooleyman
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To: TomGuy
Tell me about it .Kobe, Michael, Scott who cares !...I am so tired of the news right now I have switched over to TV LAND.."I Dream of Jeanie" Bonanaza " Bewitched. Good clean humor..
15 posted on 12/19/2003 10:33:03 AM PST by Independentamerican (Independent Freshman at the University of MD)
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To: sarasota
Bottom line: sex sells.
Bottom line: "the news" is what sells newspapers and delivers eyeballs to advertisers.

And conservatism can't do that, because conservatism is stable and doesn't have something new and different to say for the next deadline. So the things that sell newspapers tend to have anticonservative political implications.

And if politicians align themselves with those political implications, they get good press. Otherwise they get bad press--and are called "right wing extremists."


16 posted on 12/19/2003 1:46:31 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Belief in your own objectivity is the essence of subjectivity.)
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To: gooleyman
Poor, Poor DemocRATS. They're running out of things to complain about.
As the current ad campaign
"I would have double-bagged it"

"I would have watched out for water mains"

and so forth illustrates, the scope of the Monday morning quarterback is far too wide for us to losing any sleep over the possibilty that they will run out of things to second-guess.

Of course the fact that Democrats so heavily depend on the second-guess is the tipoff to the fact that if given power they will use it to help them second-guess more convincingly, rather than to take risks for the hope of benefitting the country.


17 posted on 12/19/2003 2:55:52 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Belief in your own objectivity is the essence of subjectivity.)
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To: sarasota
For once, I find myself disagreeing with Henniniger this week.
18 posted on 12/26/2003 7:34:32 AM PST by presidio9 ("By extending the reach of trade, we foster prosperity and the habits of liberty." -Adam Smith)
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