You can get off a shot like this.
And why yes, that line does have a double meaning.
The Real Ugly American is dialoguing with a proponant of moral-equivalency who seems to feel that journalists belong to “the world,” which is something Ernie Pyle, GK Chesterton and even Morrow or Mencken might wonder about.
Blue Crab Boulevard, whose son is in Iraq, has an angry retort. Don’t miss it.
Right Wing Nuthouse is is outraged and shows what this would have looked like in WWII.
Flopping Aces has pictures and thoughts.
Mac’s Mind looks at the mistakes in the today’s editorial at the Times.
I agree with Jeff Goldstein
Michelle Malkin has more
My husband, after this photo and the cocktail-party-tone behind it, coupled with today’s pathetic editorial, has finally said “enough is enough! They publish this picture, with this self-congratulatory blurb and then dare to talk about Bush’s ARROGANCE?” and cancelled his NY Times subscription. It was actually the editorial that did it.
I’ll manage to live without the crossword.
WELCOME: While you’re here, please look around. Today we’re also discussing my recent experience at Adoration, , why it’s important to treat a nation like a nation, Chesterton’s The Ball and the Cross, those 45,000 boxes of Iraqi documents, Stephen Colbert and the Nicene Creed and why too much choice may not be all that great. Also, if you’d like to guess what my secret project is, you can win a prize. A - ahem - Catholic prize, sorry! (No, not a rosary or a holy card!)
July 16th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
The Emptiness Of Moral Equivalency
My friend Rick from The Real Ugly American has a post up that shows what is so wrong and so very empty on the left. He took quite a lot of exception to the "incredible courage" of the photographer who "heroically" too…
July 17th, 2006 at 8:00 am
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July 17th, 2006 at 9:25 am
[...] Bill Keller, the editor at the New York Times takes moral equivalency to its absurd extreme. [...]
July 17th, 2006 at 11:12 am
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