Another agency filling in for the dear, departed Weekly World News uncritically reports what one phone call, or an ounce of common sense, would tell them is absolute codswollop.
1 October, 2007
OAK vs the Corps
This has been in the news today.
I’ve got half a mind to go down to the airport and let the TSA goons know that the lot of them together aren’t worthy of licking the boots of any one of the Marines they have disrespected this way.
But maybe I’ll calm down and go straight to the airport management.
Soldiers Hand Out Newspapers And Rice
Totten doesn’t think that’s much of a headline. If you know the context, though, it’s just fine.
The Pro-Defeat Lobby in the MSM will be glad to know that they’re having an effect on troop morale:
“Are you going to bash us or what?” he finally said.
“I didn’t come all the way out here in August just to bash you guys,” I said. I felt some sympathy for his complaint, but was at the same time tired of hearing it. “I write what I see and hear, good and bad. You won’t get bad press from me unless you act badly.”
“Thank you,” he said. “You’ll be the first.”
I’m hardly the first. I know several journalists, political liberals as well as conservatives, who write it straight and don’t wallow in soldier-bashing. But the soldier-bashing that’s also out there sure does make an impression. Every journalist who embeds in Iraq must hear these complaints as often as I did, and I heard it daily.
Big Companies Doing Stupid Things, Chapter 86
AT&T has cleverly revised its Terms of Service.
I wonder if it’s a TOS violation to post that.
