June 11, 2004

NEWS BRIEFLETS

• Drink, bloggers, drink! Alan Anderson has all the details. See you at 8pm.

• Check out Arthur Chrenkoff’s latest round-up of good news from Iraq.

• Michael Moore’s rancid propaganda receives a mixed review after its Hollywood debut.

• Islamic terrorists want to attack France. Why? It's a mystery.

• Alzheimer's Association official Jeanne Dubow says Ronald Reagan will be remembered.

• Nobutaka Watanabe, one of the Japanese peace activists recently held captive in Iraq, has sued his own government, claiming its policies provoked the kidnapping.

• Maureen Dowd declares: "Whether he is right or wrong, George W. Bush is a bummer." Similarly open-minded is Australian political genius Peter Garrett: "I don't agree with the policies of Republican presidents."

• Fox News drew level with CNN a couple of years ago. Since then ... well, take a look.

Posted by Tim Blair at June 11, 2004 02:09 PM
Comments

Peter Garrett may not agree with Republican Presidents, but this guy does.

Bravo Vladimir.

Garrett is looking more like a jumped-up twerp as each minute goes by.

Posted by: ilibcc at June 11, 2004 at 02:34 PM

How DARE (!) Tim Blair link to a fair-striving review of farenheit. It is well known--tested and beloved, a fact--that anyone who strives for fairness is, by definition, too naive to be informative:

"Moore tried to pack in colossal amounts of evidence of Bush administration deception. These portions had an almost academic quality... Moore clearly did his homework...given that most of the information he truly would have liked to get his hands on remain classified or locked somewhere in a corporate safe..."

Indeed, a carefully maintained prejudice is necessary if one is to remain impervious to Stalinists and their rhetoric at all. There's a reason the BIG LIE works for Michael Moore: he's it.

Remember that, and know better than to read any critic that takes even-handedness seriously: we trust Mr. Blair only because he doesn't, I suggest.

Posted by: Blair Uncloseted at June 11, 2004 at 04:41 PM

CRAP. Had I known there was a blogger gathering afoot I'd have come along. Alas, I'm not going to be able to make it now...

Posted by: James Russell at June 11, 2004 at 08:52 PM

Hmmm, interesting. I had an argument with a friend over whether France would be targeted, as he claimed the =only= reason Spain was attacked was because it has troops in Iraq. I said it was just a matter of time before France got attacked. I'm glad to see the attempt was thwarted.

Posted by: meep at June 11, 2004 at 09:11 PM
Islamic terrorists want to attack France. Why? It's a mystery.
No mystery here. They want to attack Frogistan because they can.

They need no other reason.

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut at June 12, 2004 at 03:39 AM

Peter Garrett: "I don't agree with the policies of Republican presidents."

This means he doesn't agree with Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery, Theodor Roseveldt extabishing the first wildlife parks or Ronald Reagan ending the cold war and slashing nuclear stockpiles.

This guy is a really, really, serious fuckhead.

Posted by: Sue at June 12, 2004 at 04:51 AM

I assume he also doesn't agree with Nixon winding down the Vietnam war, either?

Posted by: Quentin George at June 12, 2004 at 09:33 AM

Blair uncloseted — "given that most of the information he truly would have liked to get his hands on remain classified or locked somewhere in a corporate safe..."

And we know this how?

Posted by: richard mcenroe at June 12, 2004 at 04:07 PM

Sue: Brilliant! Then there was Nixon who normalised relations with the Chinese. Oh, and Eisenhower was the first President to warn of the so-called 'military-industrial complex.'

Garrett: what a tool.

Posted by: CurrencyLad at June 12, 2004 at 04:45 PM

Garrett must also disagree with Eisenhower's decision to use the 82nd Airborne to escort black kids to school in Little Rock.

The guy is a mindless shit4brains twat.

Posted by: murph at June 13, 2004 at 01:27 PM