A little sunshine may be breaking through in the Middle East. If the Kuwaiti press is a credible source, people in Yemen were slapped in the face by the reality of people beating Saddam’s picture with their shoe soles.

Eric Shawn of Fox News had an exit interview with Mr. Combover–the Iraqi ambassador to the UN, who’s en route to Syria. He didn’t ask the key question.

“Mr. Ambassador, if you love New York so much, why are you going to Syria? Aren’t you concerned, given what you’ve said in this interview and others in the past few hours, that there may be some members of the regime there who won’t be pleased with your statements?”

Now that we know how the game is played, please tell us why your reporting from Damascus, or Gaza, or the West Bank (as just three examples) should be given any credibility whatsoever. How much of Arafat and Assad’s thuggish behavior have you been covering up? And if you now propose to tell us, why should we believe you?

In a just and rational world, this should be devastating for the network, but they’ll probably get the usual pass.

I have to add a new term to the media glossary.

“Fierce resistance” means they shoot back, almost always to little effect.

Chirac is going bonkers.

Now he wants to set up a French news channel to counter the “Anglo-Saxon” perspective from CNN and…wait for it…the BBC.

If he doesn’t think that the BBC already provides a French perspective, then the mind boggles at what he expects the French channel to broadcast.

Chirac is going bonkers.

Now he wants to set up a French news channel to counter the “Anglo-Saxon” perspective from CNN and…wait for it…the BBC.

If he doesn’t think that the BBC already provides a French perspective, then the mind boggles at what he expects the French channel to broadcast.

Chirac is going bonkers.

Now he wants to set up a French news channel to counter the “Anglo-Saxon” perspective from CNN and…wait for it…the BBC.

If he doesn’t think that the BBC already provides a French perspective, then the mind boggles at what he expects the French channel to broadcast.

A wonderful phrase that Rumsfeld just used in his press briefing. He means that in the mathematical sense, of course. Catastrophe theory is about how one can see huge and abrupt changes from small inputs, and it’s exactly applicable here. USA Today (via Donald Sensing) has a good wrapup of how it happened, including the story of how a captured colonel resulted in the rapid fall of Baghdad.

He really went off on the doom’n’gloom reporting today as well.

A wonderful phrase that Rumsfeld just used in his press briefing. He means that in the mathematical sense, of course. Catastrophe theory is about how one can see huge and abrupt changes from small inputs, and it’s exactly applicable here. USA Today (via Donald Sensing) has a good wrapup of how it happened, including the story of how a captured colonel resulted in the rapid fall of Baghdad.

He really went off on the doom’n’gloom reporting today as well.

A wonderful phrase that Rumsfeld just used in his press briefing. He means that in the mathematical sense, of course. Catastrophe theory is about how one can see huge and abrupt changes from small inputs, and it’s exactly applicable here. USA Today (via Donald Sensing) has a good wrapup of how it happened, including the story of how a captured colonel resulted in the rapid fall of Baghdad.

He really went off on the doom’n’gloom reporting today as well.