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January 04, 2006

Iraqi Terrorists Now Targeting Doctors; Poor Newsweek Writer Finds It All Almost Too Much Too Bear

Without doubt, this is a nasty tactic. But Newsweek's little Cassandra seems to be enjoying himself as adds weights to the scales of doom:

Iraq's troubles just keep getting crueler. The same American officials who used to promise imminent victory are now saying openly that the insurgency seems likely to continue indefinitely. The recent elections, rather than creating a sense of common ground, only emphasized the country's deepening rifts. And all the while, the insurgents are attacking the social structure wherever its defenses are weakest, aiming to create chaos so hopeless that America will finally give up and go home. Now they are targeting the health-care system with murders, kidnappings and scare tactics.

The way they... surround a story.

Thanks for the recap there, Scott. It was very informative. Oh wait, no it wasn't, it was a glib and contentious summary of the basic situation we all know well that has nothing to do with the actual news you're trying to report-- you know, "reporting news," that boring, tedius time-waster you engage in in order to deliver your scary-important opinions to the public.

APBTA.


posted by Ace at 02:54 PM
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Man, somebody at Al-Queda needs to start cutting these guys a check. They're imparting precious little useful intel and giving it an "all is lost" spin every single time.

Posted by: SparcVark on January 4, 2006 03:08 PM

Newsweek is the most consistently disgusting publication around. Friends don't let friends subscribe to Newsweek.

Posted by: Village Idiot on January 4, 2006 03:16 PM

APBTA?

A Peanut Butter Tits & Ass?

Always Put Butter on Toast, ALWAYS!?

Association of Professional Butlers, Teaservers, and Announcers?

Posted by: TallDave on January 4, 2006 03:19 PM

"The same American officials who used to promise imminent victory..."

I do think it is past time for such eedjuts to realise that the "imminent" victory was predicted for the collapse of the Saddam regime, while the "insurgency" is relatively minor, but the war against new-style terrorism (actually a reversion to killing anyone not in your tribe regardless of consequences) is going to last a long time.

Posted by: John Anderson on January 4, 2006 03:20 PM

Always Put Butter on Toast, ALWAYS.

Always Put Butter on Toast, ALWAYS!

Always. Put. Butter. On. Toast. ALWAYS.

Posted by: on January 4, 2006 03:35 PM

It stands for "All Praise Be To Allah."

That's Ace's way of hat-tipping me without actually hat-tipping me, so that you guys don't rag on him for being my link bitch.

Well, guess what? Much like Russia vis-a-vis the Ukraine, I'M SHUTTIN' OFF THE TAP.

Posted by: Allah on January 4, 2006 03:37 PM

Glad to see someone with the cojones to ask WTF re: the APBTA. I wanted to ask, but I was afraid it would turn out to be another Andrew McCarthy moment.

Newsweek and Time have both skidded pretty hard to the MSNBC end of the news-bias spectrum, but it's interesting to compare a current issue of either mag with a copy from ten or twenty years ago. The fact is, they were never particularly fair or reliable. They were simply the best news source available. If Newsweek's quality is declining, it's at least partly because their readership is increasingly a downscale, ill-informed segment of the population.

Posted by: utron on January 4, 2006 03:38 PM

I think it's funny how the press now sees elections as problems because they emphasis divisions, i.e. "deepening rifts". That's how they see every U.S. election, every close House or Senate vote, and every "bitterly divided" 5-4 vote at the Supreme Court.

Perhaps they'd have preferred the "sense of common ground" created by the pre-2003 Iraqi elections that showed none of these cruel, deepening rifts in society.

Posted by: winston on January 4, 2006 03:42 PM

Hey, don't go all Gazprom on us, Allah. Why should all the readers have to suffer because a few don't know when to lay off the razzing? Besides, you're the go-to man for all Chris Klein-related items. I don't know how I've gone all this time without following every step of his career.

Posted by: utron on January 4, 2006 03:45 PM

I'm sure glad there were no sectarian differences in Saddam's Iraq.

Posted by: Greg on January 4, 2006 03:48 PM

Next they'll be targeting ice cream stands. And then bunnies. Bunnies! We can't win!

Immediate redelopyment to Okinawa! Bush lied, bunnies died!

Posted by: The Colossus on January 4, 2006 03:50 PM

This is not good news but I did hear that the life expectancy of Marsh Arabs and Kurdish healthcare workers have doubled in the last 4 years.

Posted by: roc ingersol on January 4, 2006 03:55 PM

If people still disagree, even after you have an election, then clearly that election was a failure. -- Thomas Jefferson.

Also, a president should never go to war if he didn't have a clear electoral mandate. -- Thomas Jefferson again.

Posted by: Pompous on January 4, 2006 03:56 PM

So, is this thread about:

1. Peanut Butter?
2. Crappy Reporting?
3. Ace and Allah's Verboten Love?

Posted by: on January 4, 2006 04:08 PM

1. This thread is about crappy reporting.

2. This entire blog is just Ace's extended ode to Allah's magnificent junk.

3. Peanut butter is crazy delicious. Although not after Ace and Allah get through with it.

Posted by: Pompous on January 4, 2006 04:11 PM

I can use Yahoo Maps to get the dopest route.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: Dave in Texas on January 4, 2006 04:17 PM
1. This thread is about crappy reporting.

2. This entire blog is just Ace's extended ode to Allah's magnificent junk.

3. Peanut butter is crazy delicious. Although not after Ace and Allah get through with it.


1. Smooth?
2. Chunky?
3. Extra-Chunky?
Posted by: on January 4, 2006 04:25 PM

I really tried to get a "Marrige Amendment" included in the Constitution, as I knew a Republic built upon Ace and Allah's man love could not stand.

--Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: Jack M. on January 4, 2006 04:26 PM

I should just ask the man directly:

Allah, if you were going to do Ace, what type of peanut butter would you use?

Same question to you, Ace -- if you were going to do Allah, what type of peanut butter would you prefer?

[Brand names are optional, boys. ]

Posted by: on January 4, 2006 04:27 PM

"Hey Sally, wanna rent jungle fever again?"

---Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: on January 4, 2006 04:33 PM

Well, guess what? Much like Russia vis-a-vis the Ukraine, I'M SHUTTIN' OFF THE TAP.

Are you referring to links or your penis?

Because given your recent movie and antiquing jaunts in the East Village with Ace, I'm not sure.

Posted by: Bill from INDC on January 4, 2006 04:41 PM

Not sure at all.

Posted by: Bill from INDC on January 4, 2006 04:43 PM

John Adams and I had a thing, but that's in the past now. Speaking pubescently, we parted on good terms. Are we friends? Yeah. Do we speak? No.

---Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: Jack M. on January 4, 2006 04:44 PM

I meant links. My penis -- or, as I like to call it, "the Kabaa" -- is always open for business.

Posted by: Allah on January 4, 2006 04:46 PM

When Allah speaks of his "kabaa" what he is really asking is for you to "mount" his "sinai". I learned that the hard way during the Louisiana Purchase negotiations.

---Thomas Jefferson.

Posted by: Jack M. on January 4, 2006 04:51 PM

"Well, guess what? Much like Russia vis-a-vis the Ukraine, I'M SHUTTIN' OFF THE TAP."

Didn't Russia start pumping again after about a day?

Posted by: harrison on January 4, 2006 04:53 PM

The United States of America should slice our enemies like a f'ng hammer and if they don't like it we'll take them like a Viking if you know what I mean. Because thats just the way we roll - Thomas Jefferson

This is irrefutable proof everything Ace has posted is old.

Posted by: on January 4, 2006 04:56 PM

Doesn't one worship the Kabaa by getting down on one's hands and knees, ass in the air? Ooo, I don't like this.

Posted by: on January 4, 2006 04:57 PM

You can use peanut butter for so many great things. And the crunchy stuff? The latest conservative rage is the crunchy stuff. Makes ribbed condoms feel like ribbed peanut butter.

Posted by: Yr. Fthfl. Svnt. on January 4, 2006 06:07 PM

The same doctors driven out of buisness by the greedy trial lawyers these same liberal journalists support

Posted by: spurwing plover on January 4, 2006 08:43 PM
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