Fuck you.

What is the obsession with apologies? And why post something if it’s so shaky that you might have to post a followup retraction about it later? And finally: bullshit about the Right taking responsibility for it’s lies.

Here’s a plan. I’m going to put it out on the stoop and see if the cat laps it up:

1. If you style yourself a journalist, citizen or otherwise, get your reporting right.

2. If you fuck up, fix it and move on to the next piece of reporting.

Let’s leave the tearstained apologies for the pedophilic evangalists. What is this, a Girl Scout campout?

Please note that doing #2 above is always called “a coverup” by the Right, but to tell with them.

Reader Daniel:

And you’re just about to head over there? What timing!

Yes! The whole thing is the Iraqi gov’t reacting to the impending visit of the Mighty Malkinator! It’s really all about her!

My. Fucking. God.

To get a cop to talk, however, you have to 1) gain his/her trust and 2) Keep his/her name out of the paper. Once you do 1, 2 is pretty easy and viola! Cops talk without permission.

Of course, they know the game. Get a guy in Iraq, a greenhorn in front of the media, perhaps a guy who bought into the idea of truthfulness and honor, maybe he gave his name to lead with his chin. Maybe he gave his name because he didn’t know the rules. Maybe he was an idiot. Maybe the reporter and the subject had a miscommunication as to what would be put into the paper.

I don’t know. But then my conjectures are infinitely more plausible than the unshakable belief that, for awhile, he didn’t exist. And then that somehow he deserves punishment for describing what he saw (there’s a difference between police and soliders — explain.).

But it’s just another happy day in Bagdhad.

I also question the timing, since Malkin was OTW over and the attention level was about to increase. I seriously doubt we’ve heard all there is to know about this.

Hehindeed. Undoubtedly this was all an elaborate set-up to thwart me.

Maybe I won’t make that trip after all.

That’d show ‘em, but good.

Exposé.

Anyway, that Riehl quote is riehl fuckin’ stupid. Of course it’s a fucking story about a troubling Shi’ite regime – who the fuck else in Iraq goes round frying Sunnis? It’s a story about the troubling Shi’ite regime these people imposed on Iraq by force of arms!

GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the depth of your analysis, and breadth of your law-enforcement experience, are truly breathtaking

as usual.

exposé.

There was a moment’s silence, then little Michelle spoke up at the back of the room.

“Hey, let’s just make up our own news!”

Cheers, whoops, “Hoo-ah!”s.