Comments on: An Elephant Shouldn’t Forget… http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:52:01 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Swoosh http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-196110 Swoosh Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:29:00 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-196110 <p>Interesting that ABC’s “Good Morning America” played up the open-mike gaffe the other day, with a lot of wink, wink, nod, nod, “the President said a bad word…” sort of lead-in (never mind that they bleeped out the “shit” and played it at such low volume that you had to be a lipreader to tell what was said). </p> <p>But GMA today completely ignored the groping of PM Merkel. I guess that little incident didn’t pass their standards of (in)decency.</p> Interesting that ABC’s “Good Morning America” played up the open-mike gaffe the other day, with a lot of wink, wink, nod, nod, “the President said a bad word…” sort of lead-in (never mind that they bleeped out the “shit” and played it at such low volume that you had to be a lipreader to tell what was said).

But GMA today completely ignored the groping of PM Merkel. I guess that little incident didn’t pass their standards of (in)decency.

]]> By: angie http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195919 angie Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:33:07 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195919 <p>500,000 displaced from Lebanon acc. to the UN– in search of safety, food, water and medicine now in Syria. The Syrians will try to put them up with private citizens and in public places– gyms. This on CNN international. Desperate.</p> <p>Those numbers from Iraq are stunning– 100 lives a day with no end in sight.</p> <p>Hearts and minds anyone?</p> <p>That was a humdinger, lotus.</p> 500,000 displaced from Lebanon acc. to the UN– in search of safety, food, water and medicine now in Syria. The Syrians will try to put them up with private citizens and in public places– gyms. This on CNN international. Desperate.

Those numbers from Iraq are stunning– 100 lives a day with no end in sight.

Hearts and minds anyone?

That was a humdinger, lotus.

]]> By: lotus http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195915 lotus Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:29:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195915 <p>angie, it’s really hard to pick, but possibly my favorite passage there is:</p> <p>“I think I prefer Mr Bush’s shorthand version of world affairs than listening to the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, burying herself in obfuscation on BBC radio yesterday as she attempted to avoid criticising Israeli tactics. It was like being wrapped in blancmange.”</p> angie, it’s really hard to pick, but possibly my favorite passage there is:

“I think I prefer Mr Bush’s shorthand version of world affairs than listening to the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, burying herself in obfuscation on BBC radio yesterday as she attempted to avoid criticising Israeli tactics. It was like being wrapped in blancmange.”

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195913 Christy Hardin Smith Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:29:09 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195913 <p>New thread gang…</p> New thread gang…

]]> By: lotus http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195910 lotus Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:25:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195910 <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/world/worldspecial/19cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1153368000&en=8e72e6c3febeb03a&ei=5094&partner=homepage">About 20 Sunnis Are Kidnapped in Baghdad</a><br /> By KIRK SEMPLE 8:43 AM ET<br /> Today’s kidnappings and killings followed a grim estimate by the U.N.: the death toll rose above 100 a day in June. …</p> About 20 Sunnis Are Kidnapped in Baghdad
By KIRK SEMPLE 8:43 AM ET
Today’s kidnappings and killings followed a grim estimate by the U.N.: the death toll rose above 100 a day in June. …

]]> By: angie http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195909 angie Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:23:59 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195909 <p>what a hoot! thanks lotus– but as with all things critical of bush, it is terribly and woefully true. </p> <p>The whole world cringes and grinds their teeth with us, except for those that choose to remain deluded or complicit.</p> what a hoot! thanks lotus– but as with all things critical of bush, it is terribly and woefully true.

The whole world cringes and grinds their teeth with us, except for those that choose to remain deluded or complicit.

]]> By: lotus http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195904 lotus Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:20:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195904 <p>Raw-<i>ther</i>, meta! (Sorry, still in London mode.)</p> Raw-ther, meta! (Sorry, still in London mode.)

]]> By: meta http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195903 meta Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:17:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195903 <p>The pig obsession/poodle crumb/Merkel obscenity hangin’ out chillin’ behavior is a head fake so we don’t notice Bush has been pulling the strings in the Israel/Lebanon aggression. But either way, he is a contempible ass.</p> The pig obsession/poodle crumb/Merkel obscenity hangin’ out chillin’ behavior is a head fake so we don’t notice Bush has been pulling the strings in the Israel/Lebanon aggression. But either way, he is a contempible ass.

]]> By: ccmask http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195902 ccmask Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:17:41 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195902 <p>Sorry everyone. It seemed like something he would say. I didn’t notice the satire warning, my bad.</p> Sorry everyone. It seemed like something he would say. I didn’t notice the satire warning, my bad.

]]> By: Anne Holliday http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195901 Anne Holliday Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:17:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/19/an-elephant-shouldnt-forget/#comment-195901 <p>punaise - great Lamont news - thanks! Now where is that little FDL link - Act Blue - caffeine not yet kicked in - I’ll find it.</p> punaise – great Lamont news – thanks! Now where is that little FDL link – Act Blue – caffeine not yet kicked in – I’ll find it.

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