New Baghdad Hotness
Did you hear the newest joke going around Baghdad these days? It goes something like this: Knock, knock. Who’s there? JDAM. JDAM w… BOOOM!
Month April 2003
Bias, Thy Name Is “Passive Voice”
My wife noted this morning that there’s something wrong when CNN and Al Jazeera correspondents have been kicked out of Iraq and Newsday journalists have been thrown into prison, yet NPR remains in Baghdad. Today’s disgraceful report on the suicide/homicide…
U.S. Troops Reach Baghdad Airport, forced to wait in line because they forgot to print their e-ticket boarding pass.
Monitor Coffee Spit-take
Today’s Bleat by James Lileks just about made me spit my coffee out, particularly this line: [H]ow do you know a Ba’athist is lying? His mustache is moving. And we curse it! Also laughable was Across the street is a…
Priceless
I don’t mean to rip this directly from The Corner, but it’s too good not to repost here in its entirety: THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION [Jonah Goldberg] I don’t want to risk any US soldiers lives for a photo-op, but…
Kettle, This Is Pot, Do You Read Me?
I’m listening in on an al Jazeera interview (being rebroadcast on CNN) with Iraq’s information minister. He just referred to the Coalition forces currently knocking at his doorstep as “racists, Nazis and fascists”. Wow. I’m laughing. Are you?
