I’m not a smart enough Googler to figure it out, but how did the press coverage of Saddam’s “election,” in which he won 99% of the vote, compare to today’s? Which did the MSM think the bigger story, and by how much?
[Update on Friday morning]
Little Green Footballs has an example.
[Update at 9 AM]
Here’s a roundup from last January of how credulous many in the media were about Saddam’s “election”:
While the network news gurus have spent weeks questioning whether Sunday
On the Internet, not only can no one tell you’re a dog–no one can tell that you’re his mother.
Aleta Jackson writes that XCOR’s EZ-Rocket flew home to Mojave today, piloted by Rick Searfoss, from its record-breaking trip to California City. It finished its taxi to the hangar the same way it took off–under rocket power.
It was apparently its last journey. It’s now achieved (and probably exceeded) all of its original technical and marketing objectives, and its final destination is now a well-deserved display area in an aviation and space museum.
Gateway Pundit has a roundup on the Iraqi elections, which are reportedly going smoothly, with little violence, despite Zarqawi’s threats. Even the BBC is impressed.
It seems to be a bi-partisan effort.
The level of my disgust with politicians in Washington continues to plumb new depths.
Former Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, long-time nemesis of NASA, and budget hawk (something that we could use a lot more of, these days, though he always made an exception for dairy price supports), has apparently died.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s the story. I hadn’t realized that he suffered from Alzheimers. At least his suffering is over.
The part of multi-culturalism that the left doesn’t want to talk about:
Four days after he set foot in Australia, the rape spree began. And during his sexual assault trial in a New South Wales courtroom, the Pakistani man began to berate one of his tearful 14-year-old victims because she had the temerity to shake her head at his testimony.
But she had every reason to express her disgust. After taking an oath on the Qur
Out of the Cradle has a list of books for space enthusiasts (though they mostly seem to be for moon enthusiasts).
Robert Bakker says that King Kong wouldn’t be able to get enough to eat.
There are more serious issues than that. Even if he could get enough to eat, for a body with that much mass to move that fast, the heat generated would be much greater than could be radiated out through the skin (mass goes up as the cube of the major dimension, whereas surface area only goes up as the square), particularly through that fur coat, so he’d cook from the inside if he maintained the kind of activity levels presumably depicted. Also, he wouldn’t be able to maintain his own weight on those (relatively) spindly legs, once scaled up to that size–they’d splinter like toothpicks.
No point in seeing the movie, folks–it’s just not realistic…
[Via Mark Whittington]
Robert Bakker says that King Kong wouldn’t be able to get enough to eat.
There are more serious issues than that. Even if he could get enough to eat, for a body with that much mass to move that fast, the heat generated would be much greater than could be radiated out through the skin (mass goes up as the cube of the major dimension, whereas surface area only goes up as the square), particularly through that fur coat, so he’d cook from the inside if he maintained the kind of activity levels presumably depicted. Also, he wouldn’t be able to maintain his own weight on those (relatively) spindly legs, once scaled up to that size–they’d splinter like toothpicks.
No point in seeing the movie, folks–it’s just not realistic…
[Via Mark Whittington]