Thursday, June 03, 2004
Flashback and Update
My bullshit meter did tingle when I first read a piece by Ron Jacobs in which administration spokesman Dan Senor apparently went off the deep end and confessed the truth to a startled press corps in Iraq -- no enemy combatants, we came here for the oil, etc., etc. Well, Jacobs comes clean now, but the real question is why the hell he wrote such a piece with no disclaimer in the first place -- and why it was run on Counterpunch with no editorial warning.
He tries to claim that his piece was satire, but reading the original makes no indication of this intent. Now, he tries to excuse his behavior by saying his original was obviously false, blah blah blah. Sorry, Ron. I don't buy that. And I'd reprint his original lead here to show that but, oddly enough, that article has vanished, despite Jacobs linking to it in his follow-up retraction.
Anyway -- Jacobs is a flaming asshole. If he wants to write fiction or speculative opinion, let him start his own blog and do it. But he shouldn't do it on a site that's headlined as "America's Best Political Newsletter." Note those words. Political. News. Not satire, not coemdy, not conjecture. Political. News.
So, fuck you, Ron.
He tries to claim that his piece was satire, but reading the original makes no indication of this intent. Now, he tries to excuse his behavior by saying his original was obviously false, blah blah blah. Sorry, Ron. I don't buy that. And I'd reprint his original lead here to show that but, oddly enough, that article has vanished, despite Jacobs linking to it in his follow-up retraction.
Anyway -- Jacobs is a flaming asshole. If he wants to write fiction or speculative opinion, let him start his own blog and do it. But he shouldn't do it on a site that's headlined as "America's Best Political Newsletter." Note those words. Political. News. Not satire, not coemdy, not conjecture. Political. News.
So, fuck you, Ron.
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