Comments on: Brilliant http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/01/04/brilliant/ Illinois, From Misery Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ArchPundit http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/01/04/brilliant/comment-page-1/#comment-8407 ArchPundit Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:53:12 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/01/04/brilliant/#comment-8407 The larger point that I think Dan misses (and I bet him a pitcher of beer so you know I'm serious) is that Iraq is going to hell and the right wing blogs are debating whether one story of horror is true or not. Given most reporters are pretty limited in the reporting they can do, and given the stories we know are true, Iraq is still a giant shit sandwich which we seem to be savoring instead of just swallowing. It's great to fact check, but this obsessiveness on the Jamil Hussein story is a bit silly. 6 people died according to the story in a particularly horrific way. However, there are hundreds of people dieing in particularly horrific ways every day in Iraq. The larger point that I think Dan misses (and I bet him a pitcher of beer so you know I’m serious) is that Iraq is going to hell and the right wing blogs are debating whether one story of horror is true or not. Given most reporters are pretty limited in the reporting they can do, and given the stories we know are true, Iraq is still a giant shit sandwich which we seem to be savoring instead of just swallowing. It’s great to fact check, but this obsessiveness on the Jamil Hussein story is a bit silly. 6 people died according to the story in a particularly horrific way. However, there are hundreds of people dieing in particularly horrific ways every day in Iraq.

]]> By: Buck Turgidson http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/01/04/brilliant/comment-page-1/#comment-8406 Buck Turgidson Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:33:13 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/01/04/brilliant/#comment-8406 Oy vey! Dan Curry is still waging the "they're only reporting the bad news" battle. The whole "other than that, how did you enjoy the liberation?" meme is so patently absurd, I can't believe any reasonable person would deign to repeat it. Mark Shields addressed it best (and quite some time ago) by suggesting that if a bomb went off in the National Cathedral, killing 100 people, and on the same day, a Wal-Mart opened somewhere else, both are technically news, but one is obviously more important and more newsworthy than the other. Oy vey!

Dan Curry is still waging the “they’re only reporting the bad news” battle.

The whole “other than that, how did you enjoy the liberation?” meme is so patently absurd, I can’t believe any reasonable person would deign to repeat it.

Mark Shields addressed it best (and quite some time ago) by suggesting that if a bomb went off in the National Cathedral, killing 100 people, and on the same day, a Wal-Mart opened somewhere else, both are technically news, but one is obviously more important and more newsworthy than the other.

]]> By: dbt http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/01/04/brilliant/comment-page-1/#comment-8405 dbt Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:08:32 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/01/04/brilliant/#comment-8405 My favorite part is the "hey, guys on the left" bit. Uh, other than laughing at your stupidity nobody cares about this retarded story. 6 dead people? 6? 6!? That's probably 1/50,000th of the domestic death toll from this war. My favorite part is the “hey, guys on the left” bit. Uh, other than laughing at your stupidity nobody cares about this retarded story. 6 dead people? 6? 6!? That’s probably 1/50,000th of the domestic death toll from this war.

]]> By: observer http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/01/04/brilliant/comment-page-1/#comment-8404 observer Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:39:18 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/01/04/brilliant/#comment-8404 They whine and whine and whine and now the guy is getting arrested. Brilliant. Can those bloggers get anything right? They whine and whine and whine and now the guy is getting arrested. Brilliant. Can those bloggers get anything right?

]]> By: Reverse Spin » Nothing to apologize for http://archpundit.com/blog/2007/01/04/brilliant/comment-page-1/#comment-8403 Reverse Spin » Nothing to apologize for Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:51:24 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2007/01/04/brilliant/#comment-8403 [...] ArchPundit is missing the mark badly in his criticism of conservative bloggers and their attack on AP over its Iraq reporting. [...] [...] ArchPundit is missing the mark badly in his criticism of conservative bloggers and their attack on AP over its Iraq reporting. [...]

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