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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Liberal media desperation story of the week
The liberal McClatchy news site reports that business “isn’t good” for one cemetary in Iraq, as a result of the surge:
NAJAF, Iraq — At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good.
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that’s cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.
Few people have a better sense of the death rate in Iraq .
“I always think of the increasing and decreasing of the dead,” said Sameer Shaaban, 23, one of more than 100 workers who specialize in ceremonially washing the corpses. “People want more and more money, and I am one of them, but most of the workers in this field don’t talk frankly, because they wish for more coffins, to earn more and more.”
Kinda like liberal news outlets, which look to stories of US troops being KIA and Iraqi civilians who’ve been caught in the crossfire as an opportunity to 1) somehow ‘prove’ the Iraq war was wrong, and 2) sensationalize the heck out of the stories in order to make more money.
Mary Katharine Ham writes:
Wow, now that’s some miss-the-point reporting. The press will call it “slice-of-life” or some such nonsense, but it’s reflective of the almost unrelenting bad attitude and occasional bad faith with which the media reports the war. They’re given a no-brainer positive story like “violence down,” and they’re not content to pad it with caveats or simply downplay it. Nooo, they have to find the obscure angle by which iraqi children of gravediggers will eat no more because of the evil American occupation.
Ridiculous.
Yep, but about par for the course for the anti-war MSM, unfortunately.
Hat tip: Bob Owens, who adds: “I’ll look forward for McClatchy’s future article on the bleak jobs outlook for IED emplacers.”
While you’re at Bob’s blog, make sure to read his post about the possibility of the surge’s drawdown beginning in December.
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In other news, G.W. Bush today announced that he had discovered the cure for cancer, and was making it available free through a new distribution program. NYT covers the devastating effect this is having on the oncologists and oncology nurses nationwide. How the children are being forced to suffer with less, and how this is having a horrible, negative ripple impact throughout the economy, presaging another recession. Undocumented workers are also suffering as hospitals are forced to curtail their services without the profits that expensive cancer treatments and research studies provide. And we also have the environmental impact. “Bush only did this to reward his cronies in Big Business, who can now pollute with impunity as any disease their poisons cause can now be easily cured. It’s just another example of the Rheich Wingers contempt for Mother Earth” Al Gore was quoted as saying.
Film at 11…
Little Achmed, 8, wonders when Daddy will come home. His mother, Fatima, Number 3 wife of Hassan al-Jihad, until recently Executive Director of IED Placement for AQI, an international service agency with major operations in Iraq, doesn’t know what to tell him.
The truth is, Daddy won’t be coming home at all, thanks to a tragic incident in which Hassan’s placement team was caught in a deadly ambush by American troops, in what US officials still refuse to characterize as a war crime and for which President George W. Bush refuses to apologize.
“This is just one more criminal act to lay at the feet of the monstrous criminal in chief Shrub,” said Cindy Sheehan, spokeperson for the nonpartisan group Die Right Wing Bastards, Die. “One day the weezel frump… gngngnahaha burble… AHHH! SNAKES! SNAKES!!!”
Once again the Onion is trumped by reality.
You can’t make this stuff up, can you?
What if the MSM declared a quagmire and no one got stuck in it?