And they’re Ann Coulter’s!!!
From Welcome to Pottersville:
Only someone like Ann Coulter can publicly applaud the nightmarish, Aldous Huxleyan jingoism that drives Israel to encourage its children to write greetings on bombs about to be dropped on top of their Lebanese counterparts. In doing so, Ann Coulter proves once again that, while Laura Bush may be America’s First Lady, she is America’s First Cunt.
Ya gotta luv these shrivelled little hearts made of tar. Even more vicious than AA Gill!
A snippet is reproduced here. Read the full horror of the report post-mortem here.
As for the Sternum of Doom… what meteor carved that crater? Did her pact with the devil go bad? Did Simon Cowell carve it out with a spoon? Did it sacrifice itself to become a chin or cheek implant? Did a nearby stripper accidentally ding her by sneezing while launching a ping-pong missile out of her nether region?
Who don’t luv a good, dirty pun, eh?
or, as a commenter on YouTube said, “Paris Hilton gets her first award!”
Couldn’ta happened to a nicer skeeve!
via Defamer, who called it a “brown torpedo” incident.
I suppose, if I wanted to ramp the hits, I’d have called it
Paris Hilton in watersports Apoopolypse!
You remember this, right?
“perhaps the parents were not wise when they encouraged their children to doodle on the tank shells. They were letting off a little steam after being cooped up — afraid, angry and isolated — for days. Sometimes people do silly things when they are under emotional stress. Especially when they fail to understand how their childish, empty gesture might be interpreted.”
It might even be interpreted correctly.
As you’ll have read from the link Xeni Jardin posted in the comments on my original post, it was the parents of these children who originally wrote messages on the shells. Then they encouraged their children to do it as well, showing off for the photographers.
Both mainstream media and the blogosphere have lept to the conclusion that the media was responsible.
Israelis say that’s not so. Check the comments here on Cold Desert, where an Israeli says that it’s “It’s sort of a traditional joke in Israel. We all do that.” Even if the photographers hadn’t been there, they’d have done the same thing. Apparently, this is quite de rigeur in these situations, so assume it’s still going on.
And the articles themselves say that’s not so; they say the parents were responsible. The parents wrote the messages, the parents told the kids to add to them. So, what this appeared to be, children in intimate contact with artillery and encouraged to write anti-Lebanese thoughts on the shells, was exactly what it was.
I wish it had been otherwise. I still cannot understand why the media is blaming the media when it is clearly not the media’s fault. Self-hatred doesn’t cover it. The general public believes what the media reports over what the government reports, so it can’t be pandering. Might it be our cultural filter, that just doesn’t want to believe there are people raising their children that way?
I wonder, if the children had been Lebanese, how this all might have played out quite differently.
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