IN TODAY'S WASHINGTON POST EXPRESS

Mar 16, 2004 12:29

TOP STORY* We Just Can't Seem To Get Enough Of This Spanish Bombing Story ( Read more... )

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darthfox March 16 2004, 10:33:44 UTC
TOP STORY

[sigh.]

tom lehrer once said, "satire died when henry kissinger was awarded the nobel prize for peace. there were no jokes left after that."

don't become that bitter, will you? [hugs]

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wperoundup March 16 2004, 10:38:12 UTC
Well, if it happens again tomorrow I won't publish. Obviously I'm a little bilious about the subject.

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bobwhite March 16 2004, 11:14:58 UTC
Yeah well Yassir Arafat got it as well and GW Bush was nominated so I guess the nobel committee is intent on kicking a dead horse.

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wperoundup March 16 2004, 11:18:16 UTC
Well, in defense of the Nobel people, they don't do the nominations. There's a list of a few thousand people who are allowed to nominate people, so basically a bunch of wackos make the list of nominees every year.

Which still doesn't do anything to explain Kissinger or Arafat.

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jesseh March 16 2004, 10:38:39 UTC
PRINCE IS NOT HAIRY.

In other news, world goes to hell in handbasket.

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wperoundup March 16 2004, 10:41:58 UTC
Well, not compared to Bob Seeger or ZZ Top, but he was showing some of the chesties in his picture.

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serenada March 16 2004, 10:52:41 UTC
Thank you. Just coming in to insist that.

What hair he does have is very downy soft, I'm sure.

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wperoundup March 16 2004, 10:55:38 UTC
Oh, of course.

I love how this is the thing that gets my readers most worked up.

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logovo March 16 2004, 10:39:25 UTC
* We Just Can't Seem To Get Enough Of This Spanish Bombing Story

Except for your LJ absolutely *no-one* has mentioned the Spain bombings in my f_list. Same things with real life people around me. So see, it all balances out.

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wperoundup March 16 2004, 10:43:46 UTC
Well, but your Friends List isn't a major media outlet. Unlike, say, the Washington Post Express. Which is my point.

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tritium March 16 2004, 12:23:14 UTC
The WPE is a major news outlet?

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wperoundup March 16 2004, 12:31:05 UTC
It's no New York Times, but it's not minor. In any event, the same story ran on the front of the Post and USA Today, so they're not alone. I'm not just skewering the Express, here. It's kind of general bile spew.

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mearagrrl March 16 2004, 10:58:00 UTC
Ministers Arrested For Doing Job

Aww, I was hoping for something more bitter and stupid about this.

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evileconboy March 16 2004, 15:09:47 UTC
like

"Church, State To Marry, Prosecute Unitarians"

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kudaspeaks March 16 2004, 19:13:52 UTC
" Alleged Spy Has Really Big Eyes"

The better to spy on you!

I think you're doing a fine job of balancing angry bile and satire, by the way. If you incorporated "the brains in Spain fall mainly on the plain" into it, however, you could sit next to me on my VIP pointy rock in Hell.

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wperoundup March 16 2004, 19:26:14 UTC
Thanks! And if I had come up with that myself, I would be getting paid for this.

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