Out of step, big time ..........by Mark Steyn

jpost ^ | Jul. 30, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[dennisw]

ping

[Redbob]

"The BBC, CBC and most of the European media have constructed an alternative universe and are content to frolic on its wilder shores."

LOL!

[beaversmom]

This article is so funny. I like this part the best:

At the BBC they're fending off so much Pentagon spin the quote key on the Beeb's typewriter seems to have jammed.

Here's how the BBC website reported Tuesday's exciting news: Saddam sons 'dead.' Iraq 'deaths' will have huge effect. US celebrates 'good' Iraq news. The "BBC" is currently locked in a battle with Tony "Blair," over whether "or" not the British Government "sexed up" its prewar intelligence reports. It's heartening to see that the Beeb is doing such a sterling job of sexing down any good news from Iraq.

[Akira]

Great article, thanks.

[TheDon]

If they're still droning on about Niger on the day Rummy's passing out souvenir vials of Saddam's DNA, they'll be heading for oblivion.

You gotta love this line.

[LibertarianLiz]

bttt

[Mr. Jeeves]

This lone representative of public opinion was outraged at the vicious cruelty meted out to two respectable upstanding mass-murdering torturing psychopath rapists. The CBC had to get its microphone pretty close in to its sole man in the street in order to hear him above all the cheers and celebratory volleys from his fellow Iraqis.

Leave it to the media to find and interview the sole Dean for President campaign staffer in Baghdad.

[Grig]

It's a shame he's not at the Nat Post anymore, but at least he is still taking shots at the CBC and the government it shills for.

[Cordova Belle]

Thanks!!! Steyn nails it again.

[George W. Bush]

Steyn should start publishing essays or write books. He'd be more lethal than even Coulter is. A superb writer.

[My2Cents]

If they're still droning on about Niger on the day Rummy's passing out souvenir vials of Saddam's DNA, they'll be heading for oblivion.

Works for me!

[FairOpinion]

"When the last Baghdad supporter of Uday and Qusay sounds like Howard Dean's running mate, you know you're off the map. "

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Democrats, however, still don't get it.

[katana]

If a quagmire appears to be looming at your shoulders, might that be because you're looking at the world upside down?

The image it conveys to me is the famous one of a man with his head up his ...

[68skylark]

Good post -- Steyn is always great.

Oddly enough, this is the second post I've read today to argue that Bush opponents are in a alternative universe. The earlier post is here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955026/posts

Maybe this "alternative universe" explanation is really on the mark.

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"Sexed down" for inhabitants "of" the real "world". (^:

[CyberAnt]

Leave it to Mark to hit the bull's eye!!

[tet68]

Off the Map?
No matter where demcrats look, they see signs that say,

"Here be Republican dragons!"

An educated aware populace is unexplored territory to the
bubble headed dim leadership..

[gcruse]

Oh, yes.  The song of living in the
trenches to save our French friends
who will be forever grateful.

''There's A Quagmire Round My Shoulder''©

There's a quagmire round my shoulder.
There's some head lice in my comb.
Here's a backpack full of swamp gas,
For the girl I left back home.

There's a doughboy smokin' Bugler
In the trench we call Paree.
There's a quagmire round my shoulder,
For French libre, mon ami!

[Maria S]

Uday Hussein: 'This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end'.'