Curt at Flopping Aces (PowerLine’s Blog of the Week, after Gay Patriot was Blog of the Month) has the details about how the AP has been tweaking its back stories about the most recent incident of six people being hauled out of a mosque and burned, then shot, in the street in Baghdad. Kind of like Hillary, come to think of it . . . . But, see, he’s got screenshots of the story as it WAS written, and not even Dan Rather can explain the provenance of these de-authorized versions.
I should also mention that whenever I post on PW, I feel drunk with power. Bwahahahaha.
It goes without saying that
UPDATE: Powerline Calls You Annus
Meh. I’ve been called worse. Crassholes.
UPDATE x2:
You know, if you’re bothered by too much traffic to your site, we can fix that for you, after Jeff gets back. Contact us. Reasonable rates, references.
UPDATE x3:
Wow! I really am an annus! I get a mention in the WSJ! I do have to take issue with this premise, though:
Nobody wants to be an imbecile.
Geez, do some research, will ya?
UPDATE x4:
I may be an annus, but at least I’m not a nugget, like Allen Iverson.
according to a Mr Rago.
That is quite some qualification. In the sense of qualifying things, that is.
Furriskey is a hard drinking international businessman, and he would like to know what a self-endeared curator is when it’s at home.
Re: UPDATE x2
I have not been gifted by the Goldstein glut of bandwidth. I chalk that up to my complete lack of posting and general inability to string together three or four coherent sentences. Perhaps you could post huge bitmap images to boost your bandwidth usage and then delete any comments that point out pretty much exactly what you’ve said here. It’s not like it hasn’t been done before.
Thanks for the tips, Scott, but . . . what’s in it for me?
Translation of Mr. Rago:
None of you can write with the erudition of a professional journalist nee assistant editorial features editors assistant to the editors editor, so SHUT THE F#@* UP YOU BUNCH OF MOBS!
I’ll be sending my bill in the morning.
How many of you think that the assistant … features … whatever will cring at my humor?
Other ways of controlling the rabble:
A precedent for a governmental solution to the “blogger problem”
“And for and upon every paper, commonly called a pamphlet, and upon every news paper, containing publick news, intelligence, or occurrences, which shall be printed, dispersed, and made publick, within any of the said colonies and plantations, and for and upon such advertisements as are herein after mentioned, the respective duties following . . . “
BJ, if you had been to journalism school, you too would be able to craft a finely turned sentence similar to the jewel I have reset above.
But I have a sneaking suspicion you may be a part of that Mediocrity of the Masses (nice piece of alliteration there, you see) which sadly we have come to expect from some of the young upstart Republics.
Hey! Hey! What youse sayin’ there, limey scum? We’se ahlliteraite jest as well as youse guys wid ya high falootin’ “H” in herb an what’s wid da AH LOO MIN EEE UM anywhose?
Don’t be comin to my hood or we’ll be crackin’ yer coconuts like it’s 1782 BAYBEE!
Did anyone see the AP has even gotten to George W? He actually said “we’re not winning in Iraq.” He added we’re no losing either” This is a reversal of his October prouncements that “we are certainly winning.” Jamil Hussein must have gotten to him too.
Mr. Rago, it seems, needs to ado a better job of reconciling himself to the present. Bloggers are about the news, not journalism, and most of them know it. If reporters actually served as more than stenographers for the powers that be, they wouldn’t feel so threatened by people commenting on the news.
The following letter has been submitted via the OpinionJournal article response feature.
Contents of response as follows:
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Name: Jonathan Wilton
E-mail: singnet.com.sg
City/State: Singapore,
Date: Wed, December 20th, 2006
Subject:
Re: The Blog Mob
Comment:
This is a truly lamentable piece of writing, having pomposity and costive superciliousness in abundance but being entirely lacking in humour, point, or conclusion. Mr Rago should either go to, or return to, journalism school until he is ready to appear in a newspaper for which people are expected to pay money.
#—
Naturally if there is a response, you will be reading it here….
Wow! I looked it up and I still don’t know what it means!
Mr Rago wants his 15 minutes, even if it means he has to dress like a gimp and have a red-rubber ball gag stuffed in his mouth to get it.
Lubricate those hindquarters, you persnickity fop. Cause here comes the Hairy Man!
(Likewise, I suspect this could prompt me to produce a series of Citizen Journalist dispatches; because nothing gives me more joy than rubbing my ill-refined humor into the (likely) powdered and perfumed faces of flaccid faux intellectuals like Mr Rago. Who I’ll lay 2-to-1 has some of those New Yorker cartoons taped to his cubicle wall so that, when the “right” company drops by, he can fill the manicured air with a nod to his recognition of upscale drollery.)
You could paraphrase it, BJ, by saying he is so far up himself the shit can’t get out.
But I suppose he just disproved that theory in print. Back to the drawing board.
Speaking of drawings, that Day By Day link was perfection-
I’d love to see some Citizen Journalist stuff, Jeff.
Dan, I’d be willing to set aside my Time magazine Man of the Year award and give it to you.
They like me! *Sniff* They really like me!
Annus? Annus? I am no Annus, nor no nether region, either.
What with all the seasonal high spirits, I regret that I have drawn attention away from the real scandal, which is AP going back and re-editing its dishonest posts concerning the Phantom Plod.
I hope we will return to this.