September 09, 2003

ADAMS EXHAUSTED

Gerard Henderson deals with alleged dissident hero Andrew Wilkie. In other columnar news, Phillip Adams has written possibly his dullest piece ever:

As pre-conflict critics warned, the peace would prove far more difficult than the one-sided war, producing ongoing security problems and a continuing death toll of horrendous expense to the US.

It reads more like a letter to the editor. Phil’s out of fuel. (Incidentally, Adams wasn’t among those pre-conflict critics who predicted a one-sided war. He anticipated a Stalingrad-style battle in Baghdad.)

Posted by Tim Blair at September 9, 2003 02:24 PM
Comments

Hey Tim, I realise that the Phat Phuck is an easy target, but my mother always told me it was wrong to laugh at the underpriveledged and mentally deficient.

Posted by: Todd at September 9, 2003 at 02:57 PM

Jeez, the old feather duster analogy. That's as lame as an Anzac Day march.

Posted by: slatts at September 9, 2003 at 03:00 PM

Yeah horrendous - coming up to day 7 with no US troops killed. Quagmire anyone?

Posted by: Rob at September 9, 2003 at 03:05 PM

These Neo-Jerk© opinions bought to you by the Rabid Response Unit of the Tim Blair Institute of Freedom.

Posted by: Rex at September 9, 2003 at 03:07 PM

Murdochs should put the old warhorse down - give him a merciful release now.

Posted by: Rob (No.1) at September 9, 2003 at 03:16 PM

The Tim Blair Institute for Freedom! Great idea, Rex!

Posted by: tim at September 9, 2003 at 03:29 PM

I thought the fact that Henderson and Adams are both columnists was a slightly tenuous way to link them in the one post.

Then I realised.

Henderson illustrates a point by referring to the injured knight scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail.

While Adams calls on Monty Python's dead parrot sketch.

Freaky? Or stupid?

Posted by: pooh at September 9, 2003 at 03:43 PM


yes, it's tiresome reading that things aren't going terrifically well for the ol' coalition. one gets the feeling it ain't going to stop in a hurry though.

small point - can we assume that the critics the TBIF obssess over were basing their predictions upon the same "intelligence" that the Coalition propped war upon - chemical weapons, WMDs etc? If these had existed in a usable form, hell, if the Iragis had an army at all, perhaps the "horrible projections" may have come closer.

from what the media tells me, the military aspect of the attack was effective & (relatively) low cost versus many predictions.


Posted by: chico o'farrill at September 9, 2003 at 05:02 PM

"Freaky? Or stupid?"

Coming from the person who posted a link to a 270K JPEG of a ginger cat sitting on top of a closed toilet seat lid, this is a peculiar question.

Re Hendo, Addams (click! click!): no bore more boring than a Python bore. There are bores *as* boring, but none are more boring.

Posted by: Fork at September 9, 2003 at 05:07 PM

Fork

You wouldn't say that if YOU had to piss in the kitty litter.

Posted by: pooh at September 9, 2003 at 05:30 PM

Yes, but if the lid is down, the piss gets all over your fur.

And it's uncomfortable. Even slightly humiliating.

Posted by: Fork at September 9, 2003 at 05:43 PM

As one recalls, the `pre-conflict critics' were `warning' the war would be `quagmire', ; they were noteably silent about post war affdairs, hoping for a vloody defeat of the Allies.

Now that a few murderers are still on the loose, the leftoids contiune to shovel shifting sands - now the peace is a `quagmire',; as in '`oh what we meant back then- you mis-interpreted us, was, the peace, not the damned war.'Right,Bilger Adams, and Joe Stalin's favourite organ, Fat Aunty ABC.

Posted by: d at September 9, 2003 at 06:00 PM

What a treasure you are, d. As ever, the voice of balance and reason.

Posted by: Fork at September 9, 2003 at 06:36 PM

Fork

I meant YOU not the cat. If a 20-pound cat won't budge from the toilet seat, one is forced to use the cat's facilities. Cats are like that.

Posted by: pooh at September 9, 2003 at 06:36 PM

If you're so afraid of fat slobbery cats, stop feeding them so much. Cat in question doesn't look like it could jump more than about a foot without wheezing and collapsing.

Posted by: Fork at September 9, 2003 at 06:52 PM

I want to be a fellow of the Tim Blair Institute for Freedom! Writing samples available upon request.

Posted by: Bruce at September 9, 2003 at 11:10 PM

Appalled that more US troops have died since Bush claimed victory than during the war in Iraq, Americans are asking the questions they should have asked earlier. About the honesty of the US's professed intentions. About the existence of weapons of mass destruction. About an exit strategy. About regional security. About the worldwide anti-American hostility. About the effect on the US budget.

Some Americans are asking, "Has Phillips Adams even talked to any Americans?"

Other Americans are asking, "Since when are sentence fragments considered questions?"

Posted by: Tongue Boy at September 10, 2003 at 12:32 AM

Too many Natural Lights...I've stumbled into the wrong thread...

Posted by: Tongue Boy at September 10, 2003 at 12:33 AM

Too many Natural Lights...I've stumbled into the wrong thread...

Parochial Midwestern American reference circa 2000 A.D. "Natural Light" was a beer-like concoction marketed to Midwestern hillbillies by the Amerikkkan beer giant Anheuser-Busch. Suitable for tractor pulls and weekend floats on the Ozarks Scenic Waterways.

Posted by: Tongue Boy at September 10, 2003 at 02:11 AM

Natural Lights sounds like a shampoo for wannabe blondes to me.

No wonder it tanked.

Posted by: pooh at September 10, 2003 at 10:53 AM

Andrew Wilkie - hurtling towards a Greens pre-selection, or what?

Posted by: Craig McFarlane at September 10, 2003 at 11:33 AM

Just to balance all the Andrews in the Australian Democrats. They must have dozens.

Posted by: ilibcc at September 10, 2003 at 01:02 PM