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BOMB-CHILD POLICY DIFFERENCES NOTED

Australia’s ABC once fired a reporter for doing something similar to this. The BBC seems quite happy about it, however.

Posted by Tim B. on 08/22/2006 at 12:13 PM
  1. This is why I don’t watch the news or read the papers. I use the blogosphere as a filter, once a story has passed the scrutiny of thousands of bloggers I can pay attention to it.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 08 22 at 12:44 PM • permalink

  2. Good babysitters are so hard to find these days. They use the phone and watch TV instead of playing with the kiddies, they don’t put the children to bed on time, they make them play on and around unexploded ordnance…

    Posted by Not My Problem on 2006 08 22 at 12:50 PM • permalink

  3. What’s the difference?  Give the kid a few years and he’ll be wearing more explosive than that into a Tel Aviv pizza parlor to become a glorious shaheed.  The sooner he’s martyred, the sooner he goes to paradise.

    The BBC seems to be OK with that line of thinking, so why should the rest of us bother ourselves with bourgeois, western concepts of morality?

    < /collaborationist moonbat douchebag >

    Posted by 68W40 on 2006 08 22 at 12:55 PM • permalink

  4. #1 What Daniel said. If I got my first dose of news from the MSM, I’d probably be under the impression that Hezbollah was an organization of Middle Eastern Quakers dedicated to social uplift and that it was possible to drive from Canada to Greenland across a natural bridge composed of polar bear carcasses.

    Posted by paco on 2006 08 22 at 01:10 PM • permalink

  5. possible to drive from Canada to Greenland across a natural bridge composed of polar bear carcasses.

    Wait. You’re saying it’s not?

    There go my vacation plans.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 08 22 at 01:22 PM • permalink

  6. #5 No need to cancel those vacation plans, Rob! There might not be a polar bear bridge, but you can always get to Greenland in an Inuit-style dugout canoe fitted with inflatable polar bear bladders. And just picture your biceps after the trip! It’ll drive the ladies wild!

    Posted by paco on 2006 08 22 at 02:44 PM • permalink

  7. As much noise and blather I spout about the blood debt being acquired by the MSM, it’s also a good thing to remember that journalists like our Mr. Tim are helping to turn the tide.

    But when y’all make fun of the evil stupids (evilupids?) of the idiocracy, I get sad.

    Where will she go next? Possibly to Webdiary, where Margo Kingston could use some help negotiating the minefield that is the English language:

    I get sad cause my grammar is even grimmer and that may mean I’m even evilupider.

    Now I’m depressed. I need a pizza.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 08 22 at 02:59 PM • permalink

  8. I suppose we should feel grateful that they didn’t just pitch the kid in front of an Israeli tank.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 08 22 at 03:27 PM • permalink

  9. why is everyone so negative about the beeb.  I’m quite grateful for this particular piece, as you can see here

    Posted by rampisadmukerjee on 2006 08 22 at 03:55 PM • permalink

  10. Did someone add the bold part of that caption?  (from the link with boy by the bomb)

    I don’t know that I’m going to pile on and condemn the photographers IF the photographers were responsible for the caption saying that the boy was pushed to stand next to the bomb.  I can imagine Green Helmet standing there out of the frame directing things.

    Granted, the staged pictures don’t have to be published but from what we’ve heard the reporters and photographers don’t get access unless they take pictures of what Hezballa wants them to take pictures of.

    They could have just said that the boy found the bomb in his living room.  Assuming they *did* say it, they didn’t *have* to tell us that he was pushed, that it was staged, but they did.

    Posted by Synova on 2006 08 22 at 04:12 PM • permalink

  11. Reality check time.

    During a war, anyone floating round the backfield of either side is either

    A) a spy and subject to apprehension and summary execution, or
    B) producing propaganda and subject to apprehension, imprisonment and/or execution by the other side when ever they get within reach.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 08 22 at 04:18 PM • permalink

  12. The “Break your Balls Commies” that run that faux news outfit at taxpayers expense have been faking it for a generation now. Thanks the Good Maker of the Universe to have provided the blogging technology that will send them to the hell they fear most, where no one pays them attention.

    Posted by stats on 2006 08 22 at 04:44 PM • permalink

  13. Well, to be fair, the BBC were quite up front about what was going on, which was not the case in 2003 when it was Gina Wilkinson that did the arranging.  The BBC seem to clearly think it is OK though….

    Posted by entropy on 2006 08 22 at 05:08 PM • permalink

  14. “This is a photo of my son Mohammed. He’s a martyr now…”
    “Kids, eh?... They blow up so fast don’t they?...”

    Posted by Toosmoky on 2006 08 22 at 05:35 PM • permalink

  15. “To the Blair mobile Robin!”

    Robin: “Holy molars! Am I ever glad I take good care of my teeth!”
    Blair man: “True. You owe your life to dental hygiene.”

    vrooommm…..........

    Blair man: “Gosh, Economics is sure a dull subject.”
    Robin: “Oh, you must be jesting, Dick. Economics dull? The glamour, the romance of commerce… Hmm. It’s the very lifeblood of our country’s society.”

    “Now let’s get the evil Islamic Hezz-bol-air and save our society ..... Away!”

    To be continued….. see you soon blairmain tim tam…

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 08 22 at 06:36 PM • permalink

  16. Hi Everyone!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 08 22 at 06:37 PM • permalink

  17. 99, you really should stop taking that stuff….

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 22 at 06:44 PM • permalink

  18. We are still being regaled with stories about civilian casualties, at the same time as those societies lionise mothers who raise children and encourage them to become exploding ordnance.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 08 22 at 06:45 PM • permalink

  19. 1.618, there is no need to post comments that say things like “hi, everyone!” when they can see that you are already here from the comment you previously posted. In fact, it’s kind of annoying, so quit it.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 08 22 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  20. Well golly!  I found the photo to be quite helpful in providing context and perspective.  Now if the photographer had just taken the detonator out to hold in his hand and compare it to the circuitry to an iPod or camera then that would have been even more helpful.

    Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 08 22 at 07:52 PM • permalink

  21. So I don’t get it.  Is Flat Fatima under the bomb?

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 22 at 08:15 PM • permalink

  22. #21 Vanguard:
    I think Flat Fatima is awaiting the renovation detonation before moving in.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 08 22 at 08:37 PM • permalink

  23. 22.  Thanks Grimmy.  I thought the place looked a little too upscale to be one of her units.  She normally caters to the lower end of the market, you know, folks who don’t mind a “handyman special”.

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 22 at 08:51 PM • permalink

  24. VotC, actually, I always though of Flat Fatima as more of a “all sales final, as is, no refunds” type specializing in urban deconstruction projects.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 08 22 at 10:04 PM • permalink

  25. The ABC doesn’t fire people, they just make life difficult until you leave.

    For instance, they change the screensaver on your PC to a picture of George W. Bush. Then they make the open/close program sounds little sound bites from John Howard, “We will decide who comes here…” and “Interest rates will remain lower under a Coalition Gover…..”

    If all that fails, they switch your mug in the tea room for one that says “Gough was an Economic Vandal”

    It works every time.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 08 22 at 10:23 PM • permalink

  26. ok Andrea.oops

    Continued… Robin and Blairman hop out of the Batmobile and sit in a secret cafe..
    Blairman “Do you see the Riddler/Hezzee-bol-air?

    Robin: “Gosh, if I could just figure out that riddle from him, we could save the world. Why can’t I get it?”

    Blairman: “Thank you waiter”.

    Robin: “Gosh, Blairman, this Islamic camel grass juice is great.”

    Blairman: “Beware of strong stimulants, Robin, they are kinda kooky.”

    Continued: (da da da da da BLAIR_man) song

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 08 22 at 11:21 PM • permalink

  27. I’m sorry but the terrorist look all the same, (even the women) contrary to the SMH story on what they ME. pax look like. (drawing) p1.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 08 22 at 11:36 PM • permalink

  28. hmm, certainly gives new meaning to the expression “baby boom”...

    Posted by carpefraise on 2006 08 22 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  29. #25 By golly that sounds like PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE the ABC is practising there Bonmot..
    Next thing y’all’l be wearin Geraldine Doogues’ flimsies on y’head.

    Posted by crash on 2006 08 23 at 11:14 AM • permalink

  30. #29 - now you’re talkin’ crash.
    Next thing y’all’l be wearin Geraldine Doogues’ flimsies on y’head.
    Washed or unwashed?

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 08 23 at 08:23 PM • permalink

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