Newsweek Periscope: Conventional Wisdom - Bagging Baghdad Edition

newsweek ^ | April 21, 2003

[hotpotato]

BAGGING BAGHDAD EDITION

Bush		Like a rock: he told us so—and never wavered. But the looting chaos looks more than "untidy."
Saddam		Whatever happened to him, he's riding a big fat down arrow straight to his uncle Satan. Hot enuf for ya?
Jay Garner		Retired general and Kurd-rebuilding wiz will be Iraq's MacArthur. But Israel biz ties not a crowd pleaser.
Chalabi		Iraqi expat arrives in homeland for first time in 45 years and wants to run the joint. And it could just happen.
Al-Sahaf (Baghdad Bob)		Iraqi info chief kept straight face while claiming victory even as our troups rolled in. Does Enron need a PR guy?
J. Garofalo		Predicted "doom" for U.S. forces, promised apology to Bush if troops greeted as liberators. We're still waiting.

[Numbers Guy]

Wow, Jonathon Alter gave Bush an up arrow. That's what, about the fifth up arrow he's given Bush in the last 100 issues?

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[3AngelaD]

Newsweek got SO BURNED last week they are now running to catch up.

[SteveAustin]

Periscope was a better feature before I knew Jonathan Alter wrote it. They might as well just put his name on the byline in the interest of full disclosure.

I thought is was more a large group meeting to formulate Periscope, but you can clearly see Alter's cynical sneering in every comment. He always has that smart-ass edge to him.

He isn't a bad writer and does make good logical points on many things, but I don't always agree with his politics. While Alter takes his cuts on Bush, at least he is a political writer. I resent personal finance columnist, Jane Bryant Quinn taking cuts at Bush on Iraq in her latest. You know if you see the word "Poppy" in any article, the writer hates Bush.

[js1138]

You know if you see the word "Poppy" in any article, the writer hates Bush

Seaking of losers who use the word "poppy" for Bush, You ought to check out doonesbury.com. A whole quiver of down arrows for the doone.

[hotpotato]

Sometimes I get *really* close to canceling both my subscriptions to Newsweek and Time.

[hotpotato]

What's the "poppy" reference? I haven't heard it before.

[hotpotato]

Hey! The UP arrows have disappeared!

I don't know what happened there. Where there is a blank, that should be an up arrow (Bush and Baghdad Bob).

[hotpotato]

And Jay Garner. He had an up arrow, too.

[SteveAustin]

Some can correct me if in error, but I think in college at Yale, some called former President Bush "Poppy" Not sure what the reference was to.

Doonesbury picked it up in the late 80's in his comic strip, and "Poppy" has been used as a derisive reference to the former President ever since. Kind of implies a fluffy, stuck-up, priviledged frat-boy.

With George W. in the White House, most Bush haters just refer to his father as "Poppy" these days.

[bvw]

I bet every one of Saddam's trusted inner circle got there, got to be a "made man" by some very heinious acts -- probably murder of a close family memebr or friend. Not just murder -- that's not good enough for Team Saddam. Murder of a mom, dad, uncle, brother, sister, close cousin, best friend.

For Baghdad Bob, he had his brother-in-law trurned in to be murdered. Ha ha ha! Funny guy that Bob! He haw!

[3AngelaD]

Free yourself. Cancel away. Then take up the Weekly Standard, National Review and, just to ensure you're hearing both sides, the New Republic. The New Yorker under David Remnick has potential, after the long, dark years. Time and Newsweek are so '50s it's pathetic. I will not allow their evil anywhere near my brain.