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2006-09-25 Fifth Column

NY Times in bed with Mogadishu Islamists

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Posted by growler 2006-09-25 10:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Jeez. Call my travel agent...

Posted by tu3031 2006-09-25 10:31|| 2006-09-25 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem with gettin in bed with slime is you always get some on ya. Good luck gettin it off.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-09-25 11:11|| 2006-09-25 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 So, the only way to keep the NYT from writing a glowing, rose-colored piece about a pack of thugs is for those thugs to declare their alignment with the US?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-25 11:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-25 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Correct.

Posted by john 2006-09-25 12:49|| 2006-09-25 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 The teenage militia members standing guard regressed to the boys that they were, giggling over giant slices of watermelon and spitting seeds at each other, the juice running down their chins and dripping onto their guns.

Oh lawzy buh di sho is a happy day! We'se even gots wadahmelon! /sarcasm

Did they intentionally insert this bit of racist drivel into the piece to elicit knowing nods from their white upper west-side readership or did they just do it because they are idiots?

Posted by remoteman 2006-09-25 13:55|| 2006-09-25 13:55|| Front Page Top

#6 And can you imagine the howling that would ensue if a writer from the Washington Times so much as mentioned watermelons and Africans in the same article?

Hypocrites.

Posted by Parabellum 2006-09-25 18:07|| 2006-09-25 18:07|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 The teenage militia members standing guard regressed to the boys that they were, giggling over giant slices of watermelon and spitting seeds at each other, the juice running down their chins and dripping onto their guns.

Oh lawzy buh di sho is a happy day! We'se even gots wadahmelon! /sarcasm

Did they intentionally insert this bit of racist drivel into the piece to elicit knowing nods from their white upper west-side readership or did they just do it because they are idiots?
Posted by remoteman 2006-09-25 13:55|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top

Edited for PC:

#5 The ~~teenage militia~~ child soldier ~~members~~ victims standing guard ~~regressed to the boys that they were,~~ had little more to eat than fruit from gardens ~~giggling over giant slices of watermelon and spitting seeds at each other, the juice~~ which they ravenishly consumed with one hand while holding their weapons and watching nervously. ~~running down their chins and dripping onto their guns~~

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-25 18:19|| 2006-09-25 18:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Did they intentionally insert this bit of racist drivel into the piece to elicit knowing nods from their white upper west-side readership or did they just do it because they are idiots?

yes.

Posted by lotp 2006-09-25 18:42|| 2006-09-25 18:42|| Front Page Top

#9 NY Times in bed with ~~Mogadishu~~ Islamists

There - fixed that for ya'

Accurate reporting is so important.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-25 19:43|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-09-25 19:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Thousands of children flock to soccer fields in the city center, with a backdrop of beautifully crumbled ruins from battles now over.

It is hard to imagine that this is Mogadishu, the same Mogadishu of Black Hawk Down, and clan against clan and 15 years of anarchy.

Is this fuckwit reporter brain-dead? "It is hard to imagine that this is Mogadishu", a city that an intensely corrupt third world government and its Islamic usurpers have managed to leave the nation's capital in ruins for over FIFTEEN YEARS? "[B]eautifully crumbled ruins", WTF? What is this asshole, some sort of humans-must-be-eradicated anti-technologist?

Mogadishu sounds like the same place it's ever been, the usual African cesspit. Morons!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-09-25 20:00|| 2006-09-25 20:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Walter Duranty.

Posted by Super Hose 2006-09-25 23:50|| 2006-09-25 23:50|| Front Page Top

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