Wow, Ann Coulter guest blogging at Agitprop! Thanks for stopping by Ann.
"Always a pleasure, thanks for having me blogenfreude, you godless liberal scumbag." [adjusts flamethrower]:
Privates First Class Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker were members of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)’s “Strike” Brigade, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda kidnapped the soldiers at a checkpoint south of Iraq. They were tortured and mutilated before they were killed, and yet Guantanamo will get more ink. And, again, the argument is that it's a man-bites-dog story when Al Qaeda tortures -- but that's belied by the moral equivalence that we keep seeing in the coverage.
Even worse, the media are willingly participating in the media manipulation the terrorists are using strategically. What's most appalling is the fact that those in the media know this is what's being done to them. And we all know that more ink equals more blood, as I've often said; newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks. Obviously, we should truck bomb the New York Times and Washington Post, kill their editors, and convert all the leftist bloggers that have ever linked to them to Christianity.
"Human rights" groups and the media need to step back and look hard at which side of this war they are on. Right now, it's not a very good picture. They need to change this. To that end, we need to execute people like Dan Rather in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.
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It seems like I've read this some place else...
Posted by: actor212 | June 21, 2006 at 11:53 AM
She's only packing a flamethrower these days? My, she's going soft on us.
Posted by: Shakespeare's Sister | June 21, 2006 at 12:06 PM
If I could be a rancorous stick figure, I'd want to be a rancorous stick figure just like her. Because sometimes playing Hangman - the Nuremberg Edition just doesn't cut it.
Posted by: Tata | June 21, 2006 at 12:10 PM
Deprive someone of calories, and his or her mental functions will start to crumble. That's why starvation is a popular form of torture: it breaks down the intellect and forces the subject into a state of needing to satisfy basic urges at any cost.
In Coulter's case, the obvious starvation has resulted in her reverting to her particular basic urges, which are eerily similar to those of a water moccasin (an aggressive, venomous snake found in Florida swamps).
Posted by: litbrit | June 21, 2006 at 12:37 PM
It seems like I've read this some place else...
But fair and balanced nonetheless.
Posted by: Kvatch | June 21, 2006 at 02:22 PM
I'm sorry I couldn't read all this. I was too busy celebrating the deaths of the American soldiers. That's what Rush said I was doing, anyway.
Posted by: Tony | June 22, 2006 at 05:28 AM
Hey, guys, what say we truck on out to the airport tonight and spit on some soldiers coming home from Iraq? Haven't done that in years.
Oh, that's right. These guys don't get to come home from this war. They keep being invited back for multiple "tours."
Posted by: abi | June 22, 2006 at 08:12 AM
Better yet, let's all go visit some wounded servicemen in the hospital. Nothing makes Bush and his minions more terrified than someone remembering they exist, and had their lives ruined for his lies.
Posted by: melior (in Austin) | June 22, 2006 at 10:18 AM
Who is Ann Coulter?
Love the person, codemn the actions that's WJWD
Posted by: TMan | June 22, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Ann Coulter didn't publish a study that concludes that "newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks," a couple of research economists did.
Posted by: Bill from INDC | June 22, 2006 at 11:45 AM
Ann Coulter didn't publish a study that concludes that "newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks," a couple of research economists did.
Um ... Bill? Click the links - pretty much everything in the post is ... other people's stuff. A little plagiarism joke? Oh nevermind.
You did know Coulter's been accused of plagiarism, didn't you?
Posted by: blogenfreude | June 22, 2006 at 12:10 PM
Ah. I'd heard that. Mock on.
Posted by: Bill from INDC | June 22, 2006 at 01:01 PM
HA!
File that under how to generate a steady stream of GOP talking points!
Posted by: sunrunner | June 22, 2006 at 01:07 PM
Actually one of the "research economists" is a graduate student. And the test is a little silly. Granger causality is a statistical measure that tests which event preceeds another and is not a "causality" test in the sense that one event causes another. Think what comes first, the chicken or the egg. Since news coverage always follows an attack and not vice versa the test should logically show attacks happen before news coverage. They get there result because 9-11 led to a big break in coverage of terrorism. Such "structural breaks" in time series data invalidate the test. This is probably why it hasn't been published in a peer reviewed journal (among other reasons.
Posted by: billbo | June 22, 2006 at 02:48 PM
Loved this. Imitation is the sincerest form of wingnuttery.
Posted by: cruelanimal | June 23, 2006 at 09:10 PM
Great piece. Really, with Ann, you can almost just play a tape, can't you?
Posted by: Batocchio | June 25, 2006 at 09:27 PM