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Feb. 17th, 2003 04:22 pmshit i am so mad! AOL already changed its headline so i can't find the quote i wanted to post, i will look for it more later, but the gist of it was Tony Blair issuing a statement that "tough talk" was the only way to resolve the Iraq thing peacefully, it was the only language that Saddam understood.
Oh my god, how brilliant is that! I mean, that reaches new apexes (or would nadirs be more appropriate?) of Orwellian brilliance. so when the US/UK (he-he, try reading that phonetically) don't bomb Iraq, they save face by saying "tough talk was just our peaceful negotiation strategy--don't confuse the signifier with the signified!" well, they would not say that last part, but that would be the subtext.
i think this is part of this whole new thing going on since saturday. i mean, mass media has gone all "radical" what with political whore CNN doing positive coverage, the New York Post (!) doing a pro-demo story, showing an aggro cop on horseback about to hit a protestor, the comedy central re-running "That's My Bush" that has been off-air since 9-11 (it's my new favorite show by the way, after Buffy), and an anti-Bush opening SNL skit that is becoming bizzarrely more and more on point. okay, so the skit was basically "from the white house" dispatch saying "we lost interest in Iraq. We don't care if they have weapons" which is kind of paralleling what's been going on in the media. I mean, the panic-production machine is still working full force, except the new hot nouns to go with adjectives like "terrifying" and "deadly" is...the East Coast Blizard! tangent here--okay, first of all, it's fucking WINTER. OF COURSE there is a blizzard! this is not even a big blizzard or anything, and i say that not out of some I-Lived-In-Russia-Hence-I'm-Tough-As-Polar-Bears cred, no, shit, it snows MUCH WORSE than this and FOR MUCH LONGER every winter in chicago. but anyway, so the media is now producing a "terrifying" snowstorm. the terror alert is gonna be lowered, but now, even though it's still on orange, the Terrometor just kinda disappeared from CNN and MSNBC (as of yesterday it was only hanging around on Fox, the last bastion of sensationalist pulp journalism. how come there is no term "pulp journalism"? there should be. there is one now. so there.) it's like someone at the top is rapidly smoothing out the wrinkles.
Here is my prediction for what's gonna happen: Bush and Blair are busy PR-ing their way into a backtrack "tough speech is our stragegy, we never meant war!" there will be some sort of nominal face-saving reconcilation in Europe "at large" if not in the Security Council, where US will publically get support of the "voices of dissent" in exchange for non-publicized reassurance that it will allow the inspectors to work.
Am I right? The next couple of weeks will tell. In the mean time, thank god they stopped talking about duct tape.
Oh my god, how brilliant is that! I mean, that reaches new apexes (or would nadirs be more appropriate?) of Orwellian brilliance. so when the US/UK (he-he, try reading that phonetically) don't bomb Iraq, they save face by saying "tough talk was just our peaceful negotiation strategy--don't confuse the signifier with the signified!" well, they would not say that last part, but that would be the subtext.
i think this is part of this whole new thing going on since saturday. i mean, mass media has gone all "radical" what with political whore CNN doing positive coverage, the New York Post (!) doing a pro-demo story, showing an aggro cop on horseback about to hit a protestor, the comedy central re-running "That's My Bush" that has been off-air since 9-11 (it's my new favorite show by the way, after Buffy), and an anti-Bush opening SNL skit that is becoming bizzarrely more and more on point. okay, so the skit was basically "from the white house" dispatch saying "we lost interest in Iraq. We don't care if they have weapons" which is kind of paralleling what's been going on in the media. I mean, the panic-production machine is still working full force, except the new hot nouns to go with adjectives like "terrifying" and "deadly" is...the East Coast Blizard! tangent here--okay, first of all, it's fucking WINTER. OF COURSE there is a blizzard! this is not even a big blizzard or anything, and i say that not out of some I-Lived-In-Russia-Hence-I'm-Tough-As-Polar-Bears cred, no, shit, it snows MUCH WORSE than this and FOR MUCH LONGER every winter in chicago. but anyway, so the media is now producing a "terrifying" snowstorm. the terror alert is gonna be lowered, but now, even though it's still on orange, the Terrometor just kinda disappeared from CNN and MSNBC (as of yesterday it was only hanging around on Fox, the last bastion of sensationalist pulp journalism. how come there is no term "pulp journalism"? there should be. there is one now. so there.) it's like someone at the top is rapidly smoothing out the wrinkles.
Here is my prediction for what's gonna happen: Bush and Blair are busy PR-ing their way into a backtrack "tough speech is our stragegy, we never meant war!" there will be some sort of nominal face-saving reconcilation in Europe "at large" if not in the Security Council, where US will publically get support of the "voices of dissent" in exchange for non-publicized reassurance that it will allow the inspectors to work.
Am I right? The next couple of weeks will tell. In the mean time, thank god they stopped talking about duct tape.
