Arguments for ground war - forget it

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Wed Nov 21 10:38:42 PST 2001


----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>


>SNL is pretty bad these days, but the Rumsfeld/press conference
>bit was pretty good. It was not really a fair shot at the press, but it
>was pretty incisive by implication in re: the peace movement.

Actually agree that was one of the only funny bits- and yeah, it was a shot at the peace movement which tends to take any factoid and slam it into pre-arranged statements, even if they argue opposite things.

Although one funny bit was the mindless dancing by a society party crowd, rejoicing vicariously in the taking of cities whose names they obvious had never heard of before the media repetition and whose context they had no understanding of - emphasized by late entry of a solemn (notably black) addition to the party. But that was undercut by his joining the rejoicing at the taking of one more named city of equally limited significance.

-- Nathan



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