Posted on 02/19/2006 2:22:29 AM PST by mal
It's easy to be tough about nothing. The press corps that noisily champions "the public's right to know" about a minor hunting accident simultaneously assures the public that they've no need to see these Danish cartoons that have caused riots, arson and death around the world. On CNN, out of "sensitivity" to Islam, they show the cartoons but with the Prophet's face pixilated so that he looks as if Cheney's ventilated him with birdshot and it turned puffy and gangrenous. C'mon, guys, these are interesting times. Anyone can unload the umpteenth round of blanks into the bulletproof Chimpy Hallibushitler, but why not take a shot at something that matters?
LOL! Steyn is, as usual, right on target. With all of the things going on in the world right now, the American press is obsessing on - a hunting accident?
"Iranian pastry: There's nothing flakier. Except our president."
LOL! Another great one from Steyn. He's really the best!
Exactly. It's totally ridiculous and goes to show how very little anyone inside the Beltway knows about REAL life- especially the hunting life in the American west. yep- people walking around in the wild with guns- they do occasionally shoot each other- it's a part of the risk of the game and everyone knows it when they go hunting. What happened with Cheney is exactly what happens most of the time in nonlethal accidents- call the sheriff in, do a little making sure it was an accident and let the shooter live with his own guilt. That's enough punishment for most decent people.
He the best, week after week. Thank God I can read him on FR, I used to have to buy that lib rag Times to get him...
Ping.
Zing! That's gonna leave a mark. And:So anyway David Gregory's going bananas and yelling "I will yell!" and "Don't be a jerk!" at the White House press secretary, and there's more smoke coming out of his ears than from Ronald McDonald in Lahore, and I'm thinking, you know, maybe Karl's latest range of Rovebots that he planted in American media corporations are just a wee bit too parodically self-absorbed to be plausible. And then this lady pipes up and asks, "Would this be much more serious if the man had died?"
Well, maybe. And maybe it would be even ever so much more serious still if, after peppering him with birdshot, Cheney had dragged him into a safe house in the Sunni Triangle and decapitated him with a rusty scimitar while shouting "Allahu Ahkbar!" and then sold the video to al-Jazeera.
Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969."
Hmm. Let's see. On the one hand, the guy leaves the gal at the bottom of the river struggling for breath pressed up against the window in some small air pocket while he pulls himself out of the briny, staggers home, sleeps it off and saunters in to inform the cops the following day that, oh yeah, there was some broad down there. And, on the other hand, the guy calls 911, has the other fellow taken to the hospital, lets the sheriff know promptly but neglects to fax David Gregory's make-up girl!
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Wow! That was a good read!
Carolyn
That's very true, but Mark's been doing this for a while now and the antique press just gets nuttier and nuttier. The real test would be for one of the newspukes on the Sunday shows to actually pull Steyn's column out and confront Gregory, et al, with the contents. How instructive it would be for them to hear exactly how ridiculous they come across to someone articulate enough to make the case clearly.
But then again, I dream. sigh.
A voice of sanity in an insane world.
Prayers, Carolyn. Hope all goes well with the chemo., etc.. A good laugh helps!
Mr. Steyn's presentation to Hillsdale College is featured in this month's IMPRIMIS (www.hillsdale.edu).
It's about the UN and is absolutely lacerating.
Good read, if you despise the UN(which I do).
I happened to be an an outdoor event here in FLorida where somebody was talking about an accident exactly like this, where he received a load of birdshot on the side of his face about 15 years ago. He was a little further away than Whittington and a lot younger, and he said he had a few little red dots like mosquito bites for a couple of days, and his friend was still apologizing to him for it!
For the FReeper Islam bashers, take note that Mr Styn got it precisely correct....... he used the phrase "religion of pieces"
FReepers apparently have been getting it wrong because their spell checkers can't distinguish between "piece" and peace".
Thank you, I'm going off to read it right now.
Just go to http://www.steynonline.com/
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