Category Archives: Newspeak is Nospeak

Jyllands-Posten is now officially full of shit

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Well, here goes yet another card from under the Jyllands-Posten‘s stupid cartoonish house. Writing for Slate, Reza Aslan lets slip an amazing fact: There is, in fact, NO Koranic prohibition against portraying Mohammed, only in worshipping graven images of any … Continue reading →

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A cowflop by any other name

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…still smells like bullshit. But hey, don’t let that stop you from calling it “journalism”. From the NY Times: Journalists like to think of themselves as presenting as accurate a picture as they can of the real world. The American … Continue reading →

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Found: Voices of reason…

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Unfortunately for the cartoon flap still raging in parts elsewhere, they live in Canada–where EVERYTHING is different. The Globe and Mail’s Michael Valpy elaborates: The difference is illustrated by events in France in 2004 and Canada in 2005, said Tarek … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Inflammatory Hypocritical Bigots, Part Two

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Wow. Looks like yesterday’s entry title was more accurate than I initially intended. Get a load of this little snippet, courtesy of the World Socialist Website: The events that have led up to the present confrontation make it clear that … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Inflammatory hypocritical bigots. Must be able to cartoon. Apply to Jyllands-Posten…

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Just when you thought you knew everything about the Mohammed-cartoon flap, the most interesting developments of all start cropping up…

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Wanted: Voices of reason. All creeds. Apply to Dept. of Free Speech.

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A British Muslim cleric has come out in condemnation of two things that both richly deserve it: some offensive cartoonage, defaming the prophet Mohammed, and also those who have gone overboard over it… A march in which protesters chanted violent … Continue reading →

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Tell me, dear, are you truthy tonight?

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Oh lord…talk about made-up words for people who make shit up (but desperately HOPE that the act of believing their own smack makes it true). CNN (the Chicken Noodle Network) “reports”: A panel of linguists has decided the word that … Continue reading →

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Patwa gets his mouth slapped, part II

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Now it’s personal. The latest from the Beeb on Patwa Robertson is that the Powers that Be are not amused with him and his big mouth… Israel is pulling out of a $50 million deal with US TV evangelist Pat … Continue reading →

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Finally, Patwa gets his mouth slapped…

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Tell me honestly…do you think BushCo isn’t just a wee bit selective in terms of what kind of loose talk it will condemn from its allies in the Religious Reich? The White House has been unusually sharply critical of one … Continue reading →

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A war without a defined enemy is…what?

Posted on December 22, 2005 by Sabina Becker

Why is everything always a war with right-wingers? Considering they are the people least inclined to actually go and fight, is their bellicosity ever justified? Consider, for example, the War on Drugs. Or better yet, the War on Terra. That … Continue reading →

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