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May 14, 2002

Of course I know, I know, this is the easiest kind of blogging there is. Fish. Barrel. You know the drill.

But, but, but. Look who’s writing for the Arab News. [09:51 PM]

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: May 14, 2002, 09:52 PM:

Further evidence for the existence of the real international conspiracy: the Asshole International. ("Our Output Is Everywhere.")

Teresa Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: May 14, 2002, 10:01 PM:

Figured this out years ago. Patrick said something about "mental telepathy", and I irritably asked whether there were any other kind.

An instant later, it came to me: Anal telepathy! And in that glorious moment of illumination (as of a thousand flamers), it came to me why all the worst jerks always turned out to know each other.

Gary Farber ::: (view all by) ::: May 15, 2002, 01:30 AM:

The Saudis have a keen eye for the nuances of American politics, and have uncannily selected a commentator designed to widely increase their already legendary credibility.

Dynamite piece, too; I loved the parts about about the hundreds of dead, and thousands of Palestinians being tortured in the Israeli concentration camps. What revelations!

And lovely that he quotes "world-renowned British journalist, Robert Fisk" (who is busy feeling sorry for himself in his latest piece).

Better watch out, you American traitor, you. You know how incredibly clever and fiendish Mossad is? I'm an agent. Don't tell anyone. But the marvelousness of my cover proves how unstoppable Mossad is.

That's why we got the Arab News to take on David Duke.

Bill Humphries ::: (view all by) ::: May 15, 2002, 02:32 AM:

Oh that one's a hoot. But who's side is Duke really on? Last week the WisCon committee listserv got an email from a 'concerned citizen' telling us that only David Duke can save all the white women from radical Islam. That boy's playing both sides of the fence.

Bob Webber ::: (view all by) ::: May 15, 2002, 09:35 AM:

I the way the author claims that we get no news of Sharon's perfidy due to the Jewish-controlled American press, then quotes the possibly Jewish-controlled Israeli press for proof of Sharon's perfidy.

Alan Hamilton ::: (view all by) ::: May 16, 2002, 03:55 AM:

What was it? That URL is just showing "test test test" now.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: May 16, 2002, 11:31 PM:

It was an article -- actually, a transcript of a radio broadcast -- about the perfidiousness of the Jews in general, the Israelis in particular, and most of all Ariel Sharon.

By well-known American dingbat neo-Nazi pretty boy David Duke.

It has indeed been pulled. Those wacky Saudis, never quite figuring out who is and isn't a useful propaganda tool...

Patrick Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: May 17, 2002, 12:21 AM:

And if you're curious to read more of this sort of thing (careful--the Arab press, by and large, is a moral sewer), you can do worse than to start with this post on Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs.

LGF often has an obsessive feel, but Johnson swims in a lot of shit so the rest of us don't have to. It's hard to overstate how depraved this stuff is, and how much of it there is.