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QUOTE HUNT COMMENCES

John Doyle’s Andrew Olle lecture, delivered a few months ago, began with this claim:

It was during the bombing of Baghdad that I reeled in shock, awe and disbelief when I saw Fox news coverage. Two immaculately dressed presenters were genuinely excited by the pictures they were seeing. One of them shouted ‘I want to see the Moab! [The mother of all bombs.] Bring on the Moab!’

This sounds unlikely. Perhaps Scott Norvell or someone else with Fox connections could search the network’s coverage for these quotes. An earlier item on Doyle’s speech is here.

UPDATE. Quotes found! It may have been a Fox guest, rather than a presenter, who made similar comments to those cited by Doyle:

‘I want to see them use that MOAB. We all want to see them use that MOAB.’

(Much thanks to Z-score)

Posted by Tim B. on 12/11/2005 at 02:13 AM
  1. It really doesn’t matter whether they did or did not say it, or whether they were, in fact, there at all.
    The audience would have believed it could happen, and Doyle is, after all, a writer of ABC sponsored drama.
    It may be fake, but accurate.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 12 11 at 03:31 AM • permalink

  2. Doyle probably didn’t see it by watching Fox, but it was on Media watch

    link

    I don’t think it was one of the regular presenters who said “I want to see them use that MOAB”, it was one of their guests, but the way they all laugh at the comment is disturbing.

    Posted by zscore on 2005 12 11 at 04:52 AM • permalink

  3. its in fucking realplayer.. Bloody ABC.  What’s wrong with full screen quicktime goodness?

    Posted by entropy on 2005 12 11 at 06:34 AM • permalink

  4. And what else has been going on since I went bush?  VSU passed, rioting in Cronulla, webdairy going up the shit…say, I should go away more often.  So what’s margo going to do? Academia, ABC?

    Posted by entropy on 2005 12 11 at 06:37 AM • permalink

  5. OOOiii,ENTROPY. What is ist?So Go Wikipedia.
    You KNOW people shouldnt talk like that.What it mean?OOIIWorld get hot make him cold? COOL World get cold make him HOT still I never have sex with Camel.I live OZ what eye kno?

     

     

     


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    Posted by bernie on 2005 12 11 at 07:19 AM • permalink

  6. Big sigh you know noone he talk me .Maybe I go Bye Bye.Stil you know Lebs get a good fuckin pastin at Cronulla.Bloody mofo hey?Hey how come all atime leb boy be bastard cool hey? some time aussie boy saay get fuck rascist arse wipe. him be rascist dipstick cum along big stick man say move along white boy what that hey .You know suck own dick make neck hurt .hey

    Posted by bernie on 2005 12 11 at 07:55 AM • permalink

  7. Can someone please give me a translation of the above comment?

    Posted by Mr. Blue on 2005 12 11 at 09:40 AM • permalink

  8. Need a pidgeon language phrase book. Might be a PNG highlander?

    Posted by Srekwah on 2005 12 11 at 09:47 AM • permalink

  9. This non-entity JDAndrews is a bloody liar. During that period I obsessively watched Fox News (the only channel you could get reasonable coverage and comments on the bombing) and what I could not watch I taped. No such comment was made. We have here another Momma Sheehan type who will concoct anything to get some attention. In any event, one might be disgusted should such a comment have been made, but to “REEL IN SHOCK”, give me a break. How about reeling your little pathetic feelies in shock at John Kerry’s comments that American troops are thugs who invade innocent Iraqui’s bedrooms at night and scare the piss out of little children. After all, this is a man who ran for President (and Commander in Chief) of the USA, not some anonymous twit in a TV station.

    Posted by stats on 2005 12 11 at 09:49 AM • permalink

  10. My claim in #9 refers to Fox reporters and commentators, not to “guests” including soldiers interviewed. Let me shock fagala Doyle into a “reel” by saying that I would’nt weep if a MOAB was shot up one of his openings.

    Posted by stats on 2005 12 11 at 09:55 AM • permalink

  11. Hate to hang around, but I must tell Z-Sore that I reeled in disbelief at the disturbance he/she felt at the laughter provoked by the comment on MOAB. Let me disturb you more by letting you know that I cheered lustily at the bombing of this madman’s domain knowing that, in the end, it would save lives all over the world, but especially those of the Iraquis. The 8 million Iraquis who showed up to vote, I venture, did so also at the time. There must be something better for you to disturbed by than the emotional outbursts of an individual during a war, like the Genocide in Darfur which no lefty has noticed, or the Oil-for-Food Scandal, or the beheadings of innocents by the Islamofascists, or the murder of 3000 Americans on 9/11 (did it disturb you to see the Palestinians dancing in the streets in celebration of this event, and giving their children candies so that it would reinforce their memories of this outrage), etc. etc. I suppose none of these disturb your sensibilities more than the outburst of some Fox News Guest. Hey, get a life!

    Posted by stats on 2005 12 11 at 10:10 AM • permalink

  12. MOAB does not stand for ‘mother of all bombs’, it stands for ‘massive ordnance air burst’. Whoever wrote the words in square brackets in your Doyle quotation is therefore an idiot.

    The name also has nothing to do with the Biblical Moabites, though that didn’t prevent the mayor of Moab, Utah from complaining about it.

    Posted by Dr. Weevil on 2005 12 11 at 10:46 AM • permalink

  13. I’m with Stats. So what if FoxNews reporters occasionally give the impression that they hope we win the GWOT? That’s better than the attitude of the morally obtuse Mike Wallace, who infamously claimed that, if he had advance knowledge,  he wouldn’t warn an American patrol of an ambush. One doesn’t have to maintain a pretentious neutrality toward the ultimate outcome of a conflict in order to be factually correct.

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 11 at 12:08 PM • permalink

  14. I guess Doyle would have reeled over backwards and down the street as well had he been reading Iraqi posts about the bombing, as in IraqtheModel, where they stood on their rooftops shouting hurray! and f*** Saddam...! as the bombs began to fall.

    Posted by Patricia on 2005 12 11 at 12:21 PM • permalink

  15. He reeled in shoc?  So are we to assume he watches Fox news standing up?  That’s brand loyalty for you!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 11 at 12:31 PM • permalink

  16. It shows the left knows it’s pumping a dry hole when they have to start dredging up petty crap from three years ago.

    But don’t mention Clinton.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 11 at 05:30 PM • permalink

  17. What I find interesting is that the Eeeeeevil Amerikkkan Imperialists did not use a thermobaric weapon (MOAB, BLU-###) despite the obvious “Shock and Awe” value of using one close enough for the Regime elites and Iraqi business class in the Capital to feel the hot wind on their face and in their gut.

    On a practical level, had one (or two) of these puppies been deployed upon some Saddam Palace compound it would have gone a long way toward sucking the air, so to speak, out of the regime that brought the Anfal Campaign to the world.

    Could the Bushitlerburton’s have been concerned with the risk of civilian collateral damage perhapse?

    To this date no nation has spent more blood and treasure to protect innocent muslims from themselves and others than the Anglo-Christian Coalition of the Willing.

    Lefties/Islamists can screech/preach all they want but they’ll never truly bury that observable reality.

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2005 12 11 at 05:38 PM • permalink

  18. While I personally have not hoped that some enormous bomb be loosed upon Saddam and his crew, I will defend to the death the right of someone on Fox News to hope it.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 12 at 12:56 AM • permalink

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