It’s One of Those Days Again
Hot Air - Video: Hackett calls Dan Senor “Unterfuhrer”
And “Herr Senor”!
This is London - President Bush ‘assassinated’ in new TV docudrama
And hey, why not?!
Kiro 7 - National Guardsman Brutally Attacked In Pierce County
But this one’s my favourite, because it’s right close to here in Seattle. Parkland is just beneath Tacoma, but it’s probably about a half hour away.
The soldier was walking to a convenience store when a sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside him and the driver asked if he was in the military and if he had been in any action.
The driver then got out of the vehicle, displayed a gun and shouted insults at the victim. Four other suspects exited the vehicle and knocked the soldier down, punching and kicking him.
“And during the assault the suspects called him a baby killer. At that point they got into the car and drove off and left him on the side of the road.”
Btw, yesterday a man on a bicycle pushed a woman under a bus. It ran over her head and killed her. A block away from my old bus stop and a block away from Peter’s bus stop now. Crazy, huh? You know the saying, “You might get hit by a bus!” Yeah, well, apparently that’s not very newsworthy.
August 31st, 2006 at 11:06 pm
It’s probably just further evidence of my descent into grumpy old man-ness, but “docudramas” seem a little pointless to me these days. I mean, do we really need to make up stories about death and destruction and terrorists and conflicts?
September 1st, 2006 at 9:34 am
Certainly not when they’re going to tell us that the realistic part is all in our, the viewers’, paranoid imaginations. I mean, the docu part would probably have something to do with the threat we face, but no, it’s just about killing Bush.
September 2nd, 2006 at 6:53 am
It strikes me that Bush was more right than he knew when he said you’re either with us or against us. He was thinking of regimes, not individual citizens; but if you really don’t see a civilizational threat from Islamofascism, this kind of mockumentary follows logically, right?
September 2nd, 2006 at 10:56 am
Well, not necessarily. Even if you don’t think it’s a Big Deal, you can still tell that they’re rather keen on killing lots of people, and think “Yeah alright we should really do something about that.” But they think it’s all Bush making it up because a) he’s a Republicans. And that’s it, really. Because Republicans are all fascists. So Lo! behold the breaking skies in the distance now that he’s gone! All is blue and sunny and sweet songed birds are singing!
September 2nd, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Ninme gonna be
a fine read beeven better if the donks win in 2008.September 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 pm
No it’s not. Cuz they’re gonna get there and be all “Fight the goddamn fascists!” “We’re not gonna lie here and take it anymore!” “Question authority, man!”
Then they’re all gonna sit there with stupid ass looks on their faces for two years waiting for someone to do something they can react to.
Then election season will come around and they’ll get even stupider.
And the rest of us will be passed out from beating our heads against walls.
September 2nd, 2006 at 8:51 pm
I think my head banging may begin now. Did you read at Powerline that the gist of the Bush dies movie is that when he’s popped it will be revealed he was a salutary influence holding the monstrous Dick Cheney back –and with Cheney unleashed, life at Gitmo gets really bad and other unspeakable horrors ensue?
Would this be the time to dredge up Tom Wolfe’s observation that “the spectre of fascism is constantly hovering over America but always seems to land in Europe”?
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Hah!
That’s a great line. Everyone: Take that down!
It just amazes me. I mean, have they ever heard Dick Cheney talk?! I mean, where does this come from?!
It’s like the (liberal) Hollywood thing that anyone with an English accent must be a bad guy, because they sounds really smart and everyone knows that evil people are smart. “Ooh he speaks softly and has a twinkle in his eye! Obviously he must be plotting our oppression!”
September 3rd, 2006 at 4:45 am
Some of the dumbest people I know speak with cut-glass English accents.
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:03 am
Well, there’s the cut-glass accents, which I associate with the old BBC announcer accent, then there’s the dude who played the Empire in Star Wars accent, and Brian Cox and them, then there’s the posh accent, that gets kind of slurred and rolling along, and unless the guy’s introducing the Proms on the BBC, and if he’s a bit younger than the kind of guy that would ordinarily introduce the Proms on the BBC, does sound like a complete moron.