Comments on: Once more in the name of spin

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:18:43 +0000

As an attorney, I find it important to use precise and accurate language. I’m all for saying that the car was allegedly used to launch rockets at civilians in Israel. It’s just careful word usage. Why are you so upset about it?

In other news, the sun allegedly rises in the east, and experts allege that water is wet.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:59:27 +0000

Pillars of black and white smoke billowed from the destroyed vehicle as rescue workers removed burned and dismembered bodies from the car.

This is very evocative imagery. Bodies! Lots of them, right? But wait! how disappointing:

killing one Islamic Jihad militant and critically wounding another

I’d have been happy if bodies was lots of erstwhile militants; but if only one was killed, and another injured, I think calling them “burned and dismembered bodies” is a little overkill.

By: RightWingDuck

RightWingDuck — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:30:34 +0000

Those evil Israelis!

It’s getting to the point where those sweet, innocent Rocket Trucker Union Workers won’t be able to catch a break.

It’s all the fault of the joooooos!

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:18:09 +0000

The photo looks like the man in the foreground is saying “YES“.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:35:44 +0000

You might wanna note that the time periods compared in the last quote are different also. 5 years of Israeli vs terrorists once,a week ago? Thats like saying Democrats pushed through a vote to approve this one pork budget item while mentioning Republicans have passed billions of dollars of pork in the past 5 years. Pay no attention to the different record lengths, not important…

By: Laurence Simon

Laurence Simon — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:41:07 +0000

Another square marked off. Yay!