Monday, July 18, 2005
What's the diff III
More of those quaint little Brit/Am differences.
British Foreign Sec't'ry Jack Straw spoke in a clear Churchillian tone today:
It is the responsibility of people in the civilised world to stand up to that terrorism and not provide them with any excuse whatsoever.
Compare with a typical calm and measured exchange between an American reporter and a Bush administration spokesjelly:
Reporter's question: YOU FLEW THE PLANES INTO THE TOWERS, BUSHITLER! DIE! DIE! DIE!
Spokesjelly: Well, now, Helen [giggle] I don't think we can say that just yet...
Reporter's question: HALLIBURTON! KLAN! SKULL AND BONES! ROVE! NAZI! POL POT! BUSH LIED! TRILLIONS DIED! I WILL EVISCERATE YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS!
Spokesjelly: Now, I think we should wait for the [giggle] investigation, you know, and it's true that Muslims were completely justified.....
Reporter's question: YOU COMMITTED ALL THE CRIMES AND SINS OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE DURING THE LAST QUADRILLION YEARS!!!!!! AND MORE!!!!! DIE!!!!! DIE!!!!!! DIE!!!!!! WE ARE GOING TO HANG YOU FROM THE STARS AND TEAR YOU INTO YOUR COMPONENT ATOMS!!!!!!!!
Spokesjelly: Well, maybe we're only 99.9999999 percent guilty of those crimes, you know, and it's not strictly impossible, in theory anyway, that not everyone in the [giggle] world would fail to disagree [giggle] with that entirely valid assumption.... ¶ 3:56 PM
British Foreign Sec't'ry Jack Straw spoke in a clear Churchillian tone today:
It is the responsibility of people in the civilised world to stand up to that terrorism and not provide them with any excuse whatsoever.
Compare with a typical calm and measured exchange between an American reporter and a Bush administration spokesjelly:
Reporter's question: YOU FLEW THE PLANES INTO THE TOWERS, BUSHITLER! DIE! DIE! DIE!
Spokesjelly: Well, now, Helen [giggle] I don't think we can say that just yet...
Reporter's question: HALLIBURTON! KLAN! SKULL AND BONES! ROVE! NAZI! POL POT! BUSH LIED! TRILLIONS DIED! I WILL EVISCERATE YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS!
Spokesjelly: Now, I think we should wait for the [giggle] investigation, you know, and it's true that Muslims were completely justified.....
Reporter's question: YOU COMMITTED ALL THE CRIMES AND SINS OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE DURING THE LAST QUADRILLION YEARS!!!!!! AND MORE!!!!! DIE!!!!! DIE!!!!!! DIE!!!!!! WE ARE GOING TO HANG YOU FROM THE STARS AND TEAR YOU INTO YOUR COMPONENT ATOMS!!!!!!!!
Spokesjelly: Well, maybe we're only 99.9999999 percent guilty of those crimes, you know, and it's not strictly impossible, in theory anyway, that not everyone in the [giggle] world would fail to disagree [giggle] with that entirely valid assumption.... ¶ 3:56 PM
