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MEDIA DIDN’T CRASH PLANES
The ABC’s Sally Neighbour breaks ranks:
I have to say I tire of people complaining that the media makes Muslims look bad, makes all Muslims look like terrorists. It may sound trite to say this, but the media didn’t crash those planes or bomb those nightclubs. Militant Islamists did it, and they did it invoking the name of Islam. The media doesn’t make Muslims look bad. Terrorists who kill civilians while shouting “Allah Akhbar” make Muslims look bad.
Obvious, yet refreshing to hear from someone within that organisation. Maybe the whole place is finally getting the picture; can’t wait to see how they’ll celebrate Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. More from Sally:
When I was a young radio journalist in Melbourne in the 1980s, we were constantly reporting horrible attacks carried out with meat cleavers by members of Vietnamese criminal gangs. “Choppings”, we used to call them. At the time we were forbidden from saying the “choppers” were “Vietnamese”, supposedly because it was racist. In fact, it was just political correctness. Thankfully those days are gone. Let’s not return to them.
Tell it to the Sydney Morning Herald.
OT, but I don’t care -
I can’t stop from constantly saying to myself “Dear Meester Gore”, with a strong Norwegian accent. Everytime I say it, faintly, I start chuckling. I imagine people are starting to suspect I’m a looney bin. Thanks a fucking lot paco.
It’s as good a line as Tim’s line one or two years back, “They got Gannon. Yes, that Jeff Gannon”.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 10 17 at 10:24 AM • permalinkThe second link, to a Maureen Dowd editorial, reveals the author in one of her somewhat less snarky moods (which means that it’s still pretty catty). Plenty of good Rudy Giuliani quotes; not sure whether Dowd thought this was a “condemning himself out of his own mouth” moment or not, but I like what the guy has to say on terrorism, and on regimes that provide support for terrorism, whether out of solidarity or out of fear.
Sounds like there has been a malfunction in the tardis.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 10 17 at 10:38 AM • permalink#2
Since we’re O/T:
Bollywood version of Wacko Jacko’s ‘Thriller’ with English subtitles (sorta)Thankfully those days are gone. Let’s not return to them.
Sorry, but this final sentance blows away any speculation that she might have inadvertenly contacted reality. Those days are gone?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 10 17 at 10:50 AM • permalinkPolitical correctness has a glorious history, comrades.
The term “political correctness” is derived from Marxist-Leninist vocabulary, and was used to describe the appropriate “party line”, commonly referred to as the “correct line”. Those people who opposed (or were seen as opposing) the “correct line” were often punished. The term was used in communist countries, and by communist and Trotskyist parties.
Sounds about right for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 10 17 at 10:57 AM • permalinkHas she been fired yet?
Paco, did you ever see the movie Come and Get It? It’s Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom whose voice I hear saying “Dear Meester Gore”. ‘Course Swan was a Svede, but I don’t think that matters.
Gosh, but I’ve missed Howdy-Dowdy. Not.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 17 at 01:32 PM • permalink#14 Kyda: As a matter of fact, I did see that movie (about 7 or 8 months ago, on the Turner Classic Movies channel).
The character I most had in mind when dreaming this stuff up was John Qualen. Watch him sometime as the cafe owner in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence for the full scandinavian shtick.
A big John Ford fan, I know Qualen well (though previously not by name). He did great dialect. Good choice.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 17 at 03:18 PM • permalink#14 Paco
“the full scandinavian shtick”
Around here the polite term is “Scandahoovian”.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 10 17 at 04:29 PM • permalinkthe truth will set you free…
(from your job)Posted by daddy dave on 2007 10 17 at 05:27 PM • permalinkKinda on topic
Interesting where Australia fits in with Googling “car bomb” for example.
Can’t imagine who is Googling that one!
Posted by ozconservative on 2007 10 17 at 06:27 PM • permalinkNow you’ve come round Sal, make yourself comfortable
She wrote a reasonable book on the islamic weirdies in Indonesia a few years back.
Link here.
I read it but was a little dissapointed in some of its conclusions.
But it appears that her position has hardeved a bit in that time, so there is hope she may become a fully fledged RWDB yet.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 17 at 07:30 PM • permalinkHardened Goddamnnit!!! not hardeved, I blame paco and his Sveedish impessions.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 17 at 07:33 PM • permalinknonsense, the top search term is “pussy”, followed by “porn”, “google”, and “boobs.”
True.
Any list of “top searches” that doesn’t include those words has been sanitised.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 10 17 at 08:50 PM • permalink#13 ‘becca :)
No probs, the latter-day stuff is actually pretty slick.In the early 90s, the launch of Foxtel’s Oz PayTV music channel was as ‘Red’ but it was soon changed apparently to match Murdoch’s STAR TV channel name of ‘V’, with which he was hoping to penetrate the Indian subcontinent’s huge potential market.
I was a young producer/presenter at the ABC around the end of the Keating era.
It was frightening how the ABC virtually became the public relations arm of the Keating ALP government shamelessly promoting it’s agenda multiculturalism, aboriginal reconciliation, native title, political correctness… etc.
I didn’t really fit the mold of what they wanted at the ABC. I remember the intense personal pressure to conform to their values.
They were horrified that I would participate in such an archaic practice as ‘marriage’ (yes, in a church too) and were mortified that my future wife chose to take my surname.
Many colleagues even insisted that I use the term ‘partner’ in reference to my wife because they objected to the term ‘wife’.
Howard may not have won the culture wars… but thank God he saved us from another few years of Keating.
Posted by bad templar on 2007 10 18 at 08:03 AM • permalink#29, 30: That brings back memories. I had a professor in graduate school who always referred to his wife as his “spouse”. I don’t see how a woman’s worth is diminished simply by noting the marital relationship using the traditional terminology. I always wondered if the professor’s wife referred to him as her “spouse”.
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