http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:00:47 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/133742.php#comment-10344 Well, best wishes to the Info Minister - I've read their "count-counterpoint"-type show involved much screaming pointing and waving. 10344@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:00:47 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/133742.php#comment-10341 Many people who have seen it say that their version of "Point-Counterpoint" is much better than our current version. I haven't seen either one. But who can forget: "Jane, you ignorant slut!" Meanwhile, Al Bawaba is reporting today that Mo Al-Saef, the former Info Minister, is in very bad shape. It looks like his son, the doctor, is going to have to slip him a micky and get him out of there, maybe put him on a plane (under heavy sedation) and bring him back to Ireland with him. 10341@blogcritics.org Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:46:36 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/30/133742.php#comment-10257 Interesting. That is, as a textbook example of how prowars see in others the flaws they themselves possess. I'm glad to see the state-worshipping conservatives at The Weekly Standard took time out from writing Pentagon press releases to provide us with this piece of non-news. Al Jihad is in thrall to some nasty people? Who knew? You say that most people in the world have no concept of an independent press. True, but that includes the citizens of the United States, unless they consult the small print in the back pages of some newspapers. Even the pro-war British media, like The Times of London, have offered a much more objective assessment of the war and its horrific aftermath than anything in the American media. In his introduction to Animal Farm, Orwell said that brainwashing is often much more effective in a democracy, since conformity is imposed by institutions pretending to be objective. When the CIA covertly distributed Orwell's book during the Cold War, it struck that sentence. I think that sums up it up. 10257@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 May 2003 16:56:00 EDT