So long as we’re going on about the importance of correcting the record, let’s just say were these “300″ charged with fighting the Persian hordes at Thermopylae, Frank Miller wouldn’t have had much to work with.
Unless he thought he could produce an interesting graphic novel about Xerxes strolling casually through Hell’s Gate in search of really bitchin’ gyro sandwich.
Which he probably could. But that’s not really the point, is it?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 8/7 @ 8:44 am #
I’m googling in vain to find a story about a single US-dropped bomb that hasn’t landed on:
* a nursery school,
* a maternity hospital,
* a wedding party,
* an AIDS hospice,
* a Nobel Peace Prize winner,
* a Red Cross tent,
* a room full of disabled orphans working their way through Yale on scholarship, or
* a kennel full of cute puppies with sad eyes that just want to be loved.
Are these JDAMs programmed to search out these vital, dangerous targets?
Comment by SarahW on 8/7 @ 8:44 am #
Xerxes strolling casually through Hell’s Gate in search of really bitchin’ gyro sandwich.
Well, maybe, I heard the car-hoplites were really mean.
Comment by Carin on 8/7 @ 9:03 am #
Look, if people can believe that the BUSHIES orchestrated 9/11, a “cover-up” of 300 dead women and children is small potatoes.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/7 @ 9:14 am #
Frankie Foer sez: “Conservative bloggers make a bit of a living denying any bad news that emanates from Afghanistan. Thus far we’ve found nothing to disprove the facts in the article; we will release the full results of our search when it is completed.â€Â
Comment by SarahW on 8/7 @ 9:16 am #
I cn hs UR owt raje? ( been clearing out some of my old images, thisone is so 2002 )
Comment by psychologizer on 8/7 @ 9:23 am #
Jeffersonian, you forgot “baby milk factory,” a phrase so weird you have to pointedly not read it in order to repeat it unironically.
News searches on the exact phrase are instructive. The signs it refers to didn’t use that wording (there are pictures), but all the references to them do (even the ones with the pictures right next to them).
The world is invisible.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 8/7 @ 9:26 am #
“Well, it smelled right.”
“All the veterans from Viet Nam that I talked to said it happened all the time back then, so it’s very plausible.”
“Just because they couldn’t find any women and children doesn’t make it false.”
“It doesn’t change a thing in Afghanistan.”
“It doesn’t matter to anyone but wingnuts who DON’T WANT TO HEAR BAD NEWS.”
Did I cover everything, Hi Ya?
Did I cover
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 8/7 @ 9:28 am #
Oops – an extra “Did I cover”.
Comment by Rob B. on 8/7 @ 10:07 am #
No, No. See, it’s just that they’ve finally perfected their stealth civilian technology.
That’s the ticket.
TW: conflict impartial. You can run with that one all day long
Comment by McGehee on 8/7 @ 10:30 am #
I for one think all baby milk factories should be flattened by American bombs. All those poor babies in that factory, getting milked against their will…
Comment by Major John on 8/7 @ 11:23 am #
I used to get to see the propaganda the HIG would put out in my AOR. A little less, uh, numerous in the casualty counts – but same methods.
That any media outlet would use these “reports” – without even having the excuse that they sent a stringer and he was secretly working with the bad guys – is telling.
Comment by happyfeet on 8/7 @ 11:42 am #
HIG = Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin?
AOR = Area of Responsibility.
The more you know.
Comment by Robin Roberts on 8/7 @ 3:39 pm #
Hmmmmm, Frank Miller …
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/7 @ 6:22 pm #
I find it more telling that the press gives equal weight to an anonymous claim from terrorists (or, hell, anyone) and an on-the-record statement from a government official.
Comment by Major John on 8/7 @ 8:26 pm #
Happy – uh, you are right, sorry ’bout the jargon.