Mark Steyn: Nice Goin’, Guys [Newsweek is much easier to flush]

National Review Online ^ | June 6, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[MortMan]

As should have been obvious even to Isikoff and his colleagues. Is it possible to flush a Koran down the toilet? It takes a bit of effort to get even an average issue of Newsweek down and round the bend.

ROFLMAO!!!

I tried flushing Michael Isikoff’s Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story down there and wound up getting water all over my wingtips and squelching off in my socks to call a plumber. And Isikoff’s book is only 416 pages. My copy of the Q’u’r’an is 950 pages, though if you reduce the apostrophes you can get it down under 800. The suras-down-the-septic story was an obvious crock.

IOW - They're not only on the other side in this battle, they're acting (?) really, really STOOOOOOPID, too. ROFLMAO-AGAIN!!!!!!!!

[hattend]

Steyn Rocks! BTTT

[McGavin999]

That’s the real problem here: not the reflex leftism but the pathetic hicky parochialism of a U.S. media unable to see things except through the tunnel vision of domestic partisan advantage. Who’s really the “culturally insensitive” ones here?

This bears repeating!

[baseballmom]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

Thanks for posting Constitution Day.

I love Steyn. The Babe Ruth of columnists.

[baseballmom]

Please add me to your Lilek's list, Constitution Day.

Thanks for linking to that article. I would have missed it.

[Constitution Day]

Sure thing!

Glad you enjoyed that.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the wonderful ping, Pokey!

[BADROTOFINGER]

As a rule, if you’re going to be “provocative,” it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked.

That line alone is pure genius, and is so true of all the Christian bashing progressives of our society. Bash Christians and pretend to live in fear of them at the same time...JFK

[Colonel_Flagg]

Best.
Steyn.
Ever.

Superb effort by the best in the business.

[maica]

That’s the real problem here: not the reflex leftism but the pathetic hicky parochialism of a U.S. media unable to see things except through the tunnel vision of domestic partisan advantage. Who’s really the “culturally insensitive” ones here?

Wow! Serious professional slam here!!! And our uber-elites in "MSM" are so sensitive to criticism from Europeans! This must really sting!

[SquirrelKing]

Yes! Been waiting for this to get posted! Thanks, Pokey.

[mylife]

Steyn cuts thru the BS and hits the Mark again!

[Victoria Delsoul]

The only difference this time around is that there seems to be some serious damage to America’s reputation in parts of the Muslim world otherwise well disposed to the Great Satan — Afghanistan notably — and the little matter of 15 corpses, which makes Michael Isikoff considerably more lethal than, say, Lynndie England.

Ha! Well said.

[GOPJ]

bump

[Fledermaus]

Just when I think Mark cannot possibly top himself...WHAP! He does.

I was laughing so hard I lost by breath.

[Zivasmate]

Mark Steyn is to Michael Isikoff what Wayne Gretzky is to
Jason Giambi.

[Ruth A.]

Agreed.

[foreshadowed at waco]

the pathetic hicky parochialism of a U.S. media

I love this line...as a lifelong New Yorker I just love all the liberal elites in the media who think they are so intellectually superior to everyone who doesn't see the world as they do.

I'm a NYC schoolteacher and the best 'stop them cold' line I have come up with when talking about the media bias of the NYTimes (who liberals think is an objective view of the world) is wondering why there was no outcry when Condoleeza Rice was portrayed as Aunt Jemima...its shuts them up BIG TIME...racism is considered an even bigger sin than voting for a Republican in politically correct circles.

It also kills them when I ask why the Democrats keep voting against sonograms for poor women or when I use the term 'abortion industry'...it doesn't pay to argue but I love to insert little jabs at appropriate moments. They have no comeback lines and it sure wipes their superior smirks off their superior mouths.

[knighthawk]

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