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chipotleQuoted from Scot Hacker's blog:
Protests clog NY, Philly, Washington. In San Francisco more than 1000 are arrested. Fox brushes up against this news, does all it can not to treat it with revulsion. I mean with Shock and Awe. How can anyone protest at a time like this?, the reporter asks. Our boys are halfway across the world at risk of dying to protect our very right to protest, and they're protesting? The irony is thick like chemical weapons gas, the reporter nearly coughs. Fox puts convicted war criminal Oliver North in the field as a reporter--that's what credibility is all about. 16 die in a helicopter crash--12 brits and a 4 yanks. Or so I hear on CNN. When Fox does the same story a few minutes later, they tell us that four people have died. If you're not American your life isn't worth prime-time mention. The info graphic tells me the cruising speed and gas mileage of the Abrams tank and I feel informed.
Remember, kids, the Liberal Media™ is biased--Fox is there to set things right for us!
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Date: 2003-03-22 08:50 (UTC)Let me give you a brief snapshot of my state of mind (which I summarized in my own comment) when I made the post:
My cat had freaked out last night. I've literally never in six years of owning her seen her do anything remotely like this before. She was having a total fear reaction to me--defensive posture, hackles raised, tail completely puffed out, ears flat to her head, pupils as wide as they'd go, hissing and growling like the forces of Hell themselves were after her. Afraid she'd hurt someone (we had company over) or herself, I had to corner her and throw her into the bathroom. In the process of my trying to calm her down and get her into the bathroom, she scratched up my left hand to the point where it was bleeding (and, of course, we'd managed to put her into the only bathroom of the house--we're still moving in--where there were bandages) and pissed all over the front of my shirt.
Meanwhile, the activity that we had company over for was growing increasingly frustrating and, in general, not going at all in a good way.
So, take me with that going on, and add in a seemingly random journal entry (I was running on adrenaline, jittery, and apparently prone to missing details because of this, so I overlooked the subject line) that included a quote from a source that I know nothing about--in particular, its reliability--that struck me at the moment (due, in part, I'm sure, to my state of mind at the time) as being highly smarmy and condescending, and simply unnecessarily sarcastic. Does that put things into context a little bit more?