The Faith in Humanity Meter

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Sad. See "Ignorance Inc."



Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Fox News Headlines

The headline on the Fox News Web site for this inflammatory tripe read "WH trying to rewrite history?"

About the Obama Administration's decision to send an ambassador to the memorial of the Hiroshima bombing, they quote the son of the guy who dropped it saying:

"It's making the Japanese look like they're the poor people, like they didn't do
anything," he said. "They hit Pearl Harbor. They struck us. We didn't
slaughter
the Japanese -- we stopped the war."


I don't see how sending somebody to show we remember the horrible destruction
wrought by the atom bomb says "We're sorry." Although maybe it does, in the way
"We're sorry it had to come to this. We're sorry so many people had to lose
their lives. We're not apoligizing, but we're sorry that you had to endure it."

Is that so bad, years after the wounds of that war have done all the
healing they will? Isn't that human?

Yeah, they have some voices of
sanity pointing out that it's not a big deal. But those voices are lower in the
story, to give the one guy criticizing Obama the maximum voice -- even if he's
really the only one.

A study in biased writing. They should teach this
to journalism students as a "what not to do."

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Bobby Jindal: Loose Cannon

This is pretty much right.

Jindal has gotten props at times during the spill for "looking like a leader." Unfortunately, that's all he's done -- looked like one. The closest thing he's come to actually doing anything is these jetties, which, as Bob here points out, few scientists outside his office approve of.

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