Tuesday, May 18, 2004
 
And Your Little Dog, Too

A little unwritten mandate to the NPR news types who led off the 3:30 newscast with a two-sentence "story" that relatives of and former Abu Gharib detainees want the soldiers who humiliated them put to death. That's the whole story. A throwaway line with no balance or other information, undoubtedly crafted carefully to work "Abu Gharib" into the the top of another newscast. Obviously, all those liberal arts classes did not go for nothing.

A hearty and somewhat louder unwritten mandate to you for giving this sort of barbaric, disproportionate punishment proposal a forum, which might lead some people to even entertain the notion that that West Virginia private is going to face a firing squad or a stoning for stripping clothes from a detainee or for making an Middle Easterner put a shoe in his mouth. How dare you? How <omitted> dare you?

What do I mean an unwritten mandate? Well, gentle reader, as this is a family blog, I won't actually type it here, but suffice to say that when it's a spoken mandate and I am feeling particularly combative, I tend to pronounce the verb portion to rhyme with awk.

- posted by Brian J. @ 4:20 PM
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