Comments on: News vs. Not News

By: William K. Wolfrum

William K. Wolfrum — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:00:48 +0000

I understand Godwin’s Law and all, but I was wondering what it’s called when the warmongers are left with nothing to say but “America: Love it or leave it”

Tuco’s Tirade, perhaps?

–WKW

By: Tuco Ramirez the Rat

Tuco Ramirez the Rat — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:53:28 +0000

Tell you what, Oliver. Why don’t you take a little trip to Iran, and come back and tell us how much like America it is.

On second thought, don’t come….

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:20:25 +0000

Yes, because clearly we must bomb Iran because it has a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. We don’t have that in America or anything.

By: william

william — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:08:52 +0000

Maybe ‘ol Ted should go interview Ms Kamalfar who has been stranded in the Moscow airport for 73 days. She is guilty of being an Iranian who wants to live in a free country.

Crap. Ted should go interview the UN crapweasels who turned down her petition for refugee status.

By: Tuco Ramirez the Rat

Tuco Ramirez the Rat — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:04:29 +0000

Sundown, Fact is, of the authoritarian Moslem nations, Iran is the one where the Democrats' foreign policy* calls for "killing people" under certain unspecified conditions:

Carrots are not enough:

Iran should be concerned that it has no realistic possibility of making its enrichment and reprocessing facilities operational.
Accordingly, Iran should understand the existential threat of a military response under some conditions.

*page 61

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:41:16 +0000

Unlike a lot of the reporters who blindly follow the White House, Koppel has a proven and excellent BS detector that he uses on both sides, and actually calls out people’s hypocrisy - both those who bemoan the “great satan” as well as those who push the theory of them evil a-rabs. Its called journalism.

By: Sundown

Sundown — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:22:12 +0000

Dugger,

Fact is, of the authoritarian Moslem nations, Iran has the most pro-USA populace. You should find a new strawman.

By: Rheinhard

Rheinhard — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:16:03 +0000

Is it not more naive to simply say “This is a country whose government we dislike, therefore all its population are hate filled battle droids that are pointless to talk to to find out what they are really thinking”?

I was away until Sunday night and didn’t catch Koppel, I hope they repeat it because he’s an experienced enough journalist that I’d trust his ability to detect when he’s getting the real deal from that “man on the street” and when he’s getting the line that the handlers want people to say.

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:59:20 +0000

Mississippi?

By: Dugger

Dugger — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:21:42 +0000

Beck’s program may have been good or bad - didn’t watch it. But you are naive if you think going to a rigid, violent authoritarian religious state and ‘interviewing the average man on the street’ produces anything of value.