Fuck you CNN, the remix
Aug. 21st, 2004 01:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernistDaryl Kagan, a CNN anchor just remarked on how this is the first time two Vietman veterans are running for President. That's, like, a soundbite equivalent of making four errors in a three-word sentence (as, I believe, the Catherine The Great managed to do once upon a time, unless the instructional story in my third-grade "Russian Language" textbook was totally aporcryphal, the probability of which, given the completely insane nature of the Soviet rhetoric machine, falls somewhere between "possible" and "likely"). That sentence simultaneously implies that
a) Dubya is a Vietnam Vet
b) Al Gore is not a Vietnam Vet
The 2000 election was not a race between two Vietnam Vets, but by her incorrect logic it would have been, except she says that it was not, whereas this one is, except that it's not.
Wow, the more I think about it, the more it breaks my brain. It's like that sentence "Their are three mistakes in this sentance" where the paradox is, there are only two orthographic mistakes, and the third mistake is the mis-counting, which, however, makes the sentence true. They made us diagram shit like that in Logic class.
I say you all join me in sending a little email to daryl.kagan@turner.com, or go here and alert her to the fact that unless in an in-house coup the GOP has handed the nomination over to McCain, she owes the CNN audience a retraction and Al Gore an apology.
a) Dubya is a Vietnam Vet
b) Al Gore is not a Vietnam Vet
The 2000 election was not a race between two Vietnam Vets, but by her incorrect logic it would have been, except she says that it was not, whereas this one is, except that it's not.
Wow, the more I think about it, the more it breaks my brain. It's like that sentence "Their are three mistakes in this sentance" where the paradox is, there are only two orthographic mistakes, and the third mistake is the mis-counting, which, however, makes the sentence true. They made us diagram shit like that in Logic class.
I say you all join me in sending a little email to daryl.kagan@turner.com, or go here and alert her to the fact that unless in an in-house coup the GOP has handed the nomination over to McCain, she owes the CNN audience a retraction and Al Gore an apology.
