The definition of class.

[theweaselking]

Yes, this really is the front cover of today's New York Post.

What was that about the moral high ground, Americans being better than those savages putting pictures of dead Americans up all over the place, and all that? Could you tell me that part again?

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

The New York Post is to the moral high ground as Marion Berry is to the Partnership for a Drug Free America. If there's a difference between that paper and a tabloid I don't know what it is.

The audience for my bitterness doesn't usually read me. Or read at all, for that matter.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

But all the mohammedans and sand niggers are all alike, didn't you hear?

What do you mean, they don't speak for you. Aren't they Americans?

(And, for the record, "tabloid" is a format, not a content distinction, and the New York Post is one. The fact that tabloids tend to be bastions of yellow journalism and outright hallucinatory reporting is coincidental to their format, not a requirement)

Re: The audience for my bitterness doesn't usually read me. Or read at all, for that matter.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Which makes it totally amusing that some of them (the Star and the National Enquirer, I think) have gone down to something approaching standard-magazine size. Cause that's gonna make them more respectable. Oh yeah.

(As a librarian, I should care more about my content/format error, but I uh don't. Oh well.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, it will. They've driven "tabloid = crap" firmly into the ground, and so they're trying to latch onto the relative respectability of news magazines.

That's my theory, anyway.

[themightyx.livejournal.com]

Remind me again why we chose to bomb him instead of sending in the military to capture him? I thought that was sort of the point of being over there. You know, truth, justice, the American Way? For crying out loud, everyone is HAPPY this man is DEAD. Since when is America better than anyone else?

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

But if we hadn't bombed him, we wouldn't have had the chance to take out some more innocent Iraqi civilians!

As an aside, last night on the Daily Show they spent about ten minutes making jokes about this man's demise. For the first time ever, I was offended by that show. While I recognize that his death probably prevented some future deaths, I still think that it is inappropriate to celebrate, especially when a 5-year-old and a pregnant woman were both killed in the bombing. I have since learned that American shock-and-awe in Iraq basically pushed this ordinary man into becoming a monster, and this has only increased my disgust. I'm relieved to find that I'm not the only one who finds this whole business disturbing.

[seriesfinale.livejournal.com]

You think Al-Zarqawi was an "ordinary man"? This is a man who boasted on tape about beheading innocent people, who bombed markets and mosques. I'm certainly not celebrating his death, and I don't believe it will change much, if anything, over there, but I'm definitely not shedding any tears for him at the same time. Yeah, the war is awful and wrong and the Post cover is crass and disgusting, but let's not blind ourselves to what al-Zarqawi was all about, either.

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

No, I said that he was a monster. But he was once an ordinary man. Or at least, I think he probably was, a looong time ago. And I am sad for the death of *that* man, though I'm not shedding any tears for a guy I never knew. I guess I believe in showing compassion for everyone, even moreso for such irredeemably horrible people and the pointless, pain-causing lives they led.

Also, I am upset that "we" killed innocents in the process of taking Al-Zarqawi out, and everyone is just ignoring it. The whole thing just makes me sick.

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

I heard it on Air America Radio. They generally get their info from the usual media sources, but for silly liberal opinions you could try The Nation magazine or somesuch. If I find it I'll let you know.

[mightycodking.livejournal.com]

The ordinary man in question started off as a thug who did time for sexual assault in Jordan before drifting into Afghanistan and finding Mohammad.

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

Well, that certainly makes me feel less bad about his death. XD

Also: Your username rocks because I thought it said "MightCockRing" or somesuch.

[mightycodking.livejournal.com]

LOL. I only wish, but it would make logging in from work that much less acceptable.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Jeeeeezus, dude! if we'd sent in the military to capture him then he'd be able to SAY THINGS! Lord only knows that actual facts he might have spilled about the US that we don't want out virgin ears; unburdened by the harsh reality of truth; to hear.

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

The military salvaged plenty of intel from the wreckage of the "safe" house.

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

"...moral high ground, Americans being better than ..."
It appears they aren't the ones working for the Post.

[calysto.livejournal.com]

I copied this, with credit. I hope you don't mind. It's a very important post.

Also, mind if I hot-link the image? I can't get to my FTP site at the moment.

thank you very much.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Go right ahead. I just rehosted it off nypost.com, after all.

Jeez...

[unclestoner.livejournal.com]

Yee-haw. Yeah, that's pretty bad. But it reminds me of a similar incident which to my sensibilities was a lot worse:

Remember when Saddam was captured, images of him being subjected to a humilating physical exam? Disembodied hands in rubber gloves poking around at his mouth. Vague S&M undertones. That upset me at the time. If nothing else it was just embarrasing to watch, but the media played it over and over and over...no doubt because they correctly guesses their audience just loved it.