Feb
19

All those countries look the same




Posted at 20:40 by Sadly, No!

You say Iran, I say Iraq:

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Thanks to Blair for the pic.

12 Comments »

  1. teh l4m3 said,

    February 19, 2005 at 21:41

    O/T, but just a reminder: it’s Feb. 19th.

    teh l4m3

  2. s.z. said,

    February 20, 2005 at 0:42

    It’s a good thing that they’ll both soon be part that new freedom loving country called Bushatopia, and we won’t have to worry about making these kinds of mistakes any more.

  3. Andrew A. Gill said,

    February 20, 2005 at 0:59

    What? This article was written by Eichmann?

  4. Sister Novena said,

    February 20, 2005 at 3:37

    Compare the language in that piece with the language in an article from yesterday’s Reuter’s…

    http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7676964

    They didn’t even bother to write a fresh script.

  5. Sister Novena said,

    February 20, 2005 at 3:39

    Wait, I’m a dork… never mind.

  6. Alex said,

    February 20, 2005 at 3:55

    What? This article was written by Eichmann?

    No, no, no — it was written by “little Eichmanns.” Much like Don Marquis’ Archy, they can’t quite reach the keys on a keyboard, so sometimes little typos like “Iraq” or “US Not Planning to Attack Iran” slip in. They are also too busy killing Palestinian children by proxy to proof-read.

  7. tilda said,

    February 20, 2005 at 6:26

    AP digging around in it’s files again for stories because they are afraid that their reporters may be killed off by the us military (as CNN’s Jordan speculated) and they feel that their reporters are not expendable?

    When was this from - March 2003?

  8. mdhatter said,

    February 20, 2005 at 18:14

    Let’s call the whole thing off

  9. Abigail said,

    February 20, 2005 at 20:25

    I don’t mean to defend Bush, who is certainly pretty stupid, but I think that Riechmann and her editor are to blame here.

  10. Questioner said,

    February 21, 2005 at 1:39

    I’ve long suspected that the AP uses middle school interns to write its wire stories. Many of them are so riddled with grammar and spelling errors, and composed in such a plodding, pre-literate style, that it is difficult to believe that they are written by adults.

  11. heydave said,

    February 21, 2005 at 17:02

    as said by Monty Python: “oh what a give away!”

  12. Steve Talbert said,

    February 22, 2005 at 1:30

    No big deal, we will also be shown the same satellite images of possible WMD

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