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2004-06-30 Fifth Column

Freedomâs Reign? Newsweek declares for other side

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Posted by Steve White 2004-06-30 12:43:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh come on... this is so over the top it's funny as hell. Don't get so wound up about it.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-06-30 1:08:01 AM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-06-30 1:08:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 does newsweak hire these guys from anti-american marxisism 101 or GQ--goes on about brenner's desert boots--which are of course tres stupid to wear in the DESERT--he should wear john lobb kicks like the gucci schmuck reporter--i'm with fred/steve--put a contract out on these fuckface scumbag hotshit reporters--feed 'em to zarquari--86 the newsweak journalists in pairs--these guys---must have gone to the sorbonne they're so simplistically stoopid,venally arrogant and morally bankrupt

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-06-30 2:15:49 AM|| 2004-06-30 2:15:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 These buttwipe reporters are getting so desperate of things going well that they have resorted to delusional reporting.

Posted by Capt America 2004-06-30 2:29:51 AM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-30 2:29:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Has anybody seen the roses? Let chaos reign !

Posted by Anonymous55238 2004-06-30 7:34:32 AM|| 2004-06-30 7:34:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I must say, I don't think I've ever read an article that started off with such a nasty tone. I had to stop after the second paragraph. What's wrong with this asscork?

Posted by Anonymous5460 2004-06-30 9:00:09 AM|| 2004-06-30 9:00:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sound like Baath propaganda, doesn't it? One doesn't even know where to begin. Whoever wrote this is so ignorant that he doesn't even know why there is a problem with gas prices in Iraq -- Saddam kept prices artificially low and psychologically, the Iraqis can't cope with the 10x price jump required to bring prices to market levels. The gas shortage logically follows. If you keep charging socialist prices in an open market, yes you will have severe shortages.

It's a racist, ignorant piece. I imagine it's "retaliation" for Wolfowitz's remarks about reporters being a bunch of lazy wusses, reporting from hotels.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-06-30 9:02:44 AM|| 2004-06-30 9:02:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't even bother Steve. Consider the source: Newsweekâ¢ (part of the Democratic Party group of media outlets)

Posted by Spot 2004-06-30 9:17:53 AM|| 2004-06-30 9:17:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, it's all about the SHOOOOOOOOOS!

Posted by mojo 2004-06-30 11:34:00 AM|| 2004-06-30 11:34:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Its not just retaliation for Wolfowitz remarks, its retaliation for jumping the gun on the changeover and leaving the media in the dark about it. This guy probably had an assignment to cover the changeover and he missed the whole thing and dag-nabbit Bremmers gonna pay.

Posted by yank 2004-06-30 11:39:59 AM|| [politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-06-30 11:39:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 mojo-----------great one! LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-30 12:24:13 PM|| 2004-06-30 12:24:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 There is a need to understand an underlying premise of the current left: It is postmodern. This is how one understands the world: One has a certain set of "preferences" (stuff you want), you are permitted to do or say anything you want, because there is nothing true or false, right or wrong. There are only things which achieve my ends or prevent my ends. Hence, the left is extraordinarily illiberal. Postmodernism tends quickly towards violent control and suppression, because that it the quickest way to obtain one's ends. There is no need to be consistent.
Someone like Bush, the "right", et cetera are the most dangerous threats, because they are holding to outmoded ways of understanding.
Think about it this way: SH was a terrible murderer. Even if the intelligence was completely wrong, a very bad, very dangerous thug was taken out of power. Freedom is much better than material goods (which the writer of the story simply cannot understand). Shouldn't "liberals" be happy that SH is gone? Why so glum? Because he doesn't matter, and the people of Iraq don't matter. All that matters is Bush being gone.
Perhaps the question is why is Bush such a thorn in their side? What does he want that they hate so badly? It does not seem to be much more than abortion or some sort of 'sexual rights' or some such.

Posted by 5442 2004-06-30 12:53:38 PM|| 2004-06-30 12:53:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, it's all about the SHOOOOOOOOOS!

I kulda said that!

LOL! SpewFactor 7

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-30 1:40:30 PM|| 2004-06-30 1:40:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 5442: That's the best one paragraph description of post-modernism I've ever read.

Yank: You are right. I missed that angle.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-06-30 3:10:23 PM|| 2004-06-30 3:10:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like a large group of media are positioning themselves. Now that Iraqii are in charge and things are not as bad as the press originally thought, "It was all Bush's Fault!" becomes the headline.

The press are never wrong. Brokaw says so.

Posted by john 2004-06-30 4:11:35 PM|| 2004-06-30 4:11:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 does newsweak hire these guys from anti-american marxisism 101

If by that you mean "Journalism School", then, yes. I'm not saying there's a conspiracy... more like birds-of-a-feather flocking together.

Posted by eLarson 2004-06-30 4:35:17 PM|| 2004-06-30 4:35:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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