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Scott McClellan’s Worst Nightmare

by John Cole|  May 28, 20053:16 am| 4 Comments

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The White House shudders at the thought of this:

Blasting away at targets with 0.45 caliber pistols, a group of militant Philippine journalists held their first “fun shoot” Thursday to make clear they were not taking media killings lying down.

Five journalists have been killed this year in the Philippines, underlining its status as the most dangerous country in the world for media.

The Philippines prides itself on having the freest press in the region but media groups have criticized the government for failing to halt the attacks, many of them apparently related to reporting on corrupt officials and business deals.

While there is nothing funny about murdered journalists, the phrase ‘militant Philippine journalists’ made me giggle. It reminded me of Hell’s Grannies:

Voice Over: This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenceless fit young men.

And yes, I am posting at this hour because I have insomnia. I had just fallen asleep and my cat woke me up. I had forgotten to leave some food out for him, so I can’t really be mad at him. I still can’t sleep, though, and I am too tired to do anything productive. And I hate taking things to sleep, because then I feel like I am underwater the entire next day.

Grumble, bitch, moan, whine, complain.

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4Comments

  1. 1.

    tim

    May 28, 2005 at 9:56 am

    I love the image of armed journalists holding Scott, declaring, “…and if you say the-president-has-been-very-clear-on-his-position one more time…”

  2. 2.

    Kimmitt

    May 28, 2005 at 11:16 am

    Oh man, don’t make me cry. That image is just too beautiful.

  3. 3.

    jal

    May 28, 2005 at 2:31 pm

    Oh John – on the reducing the point-size of your header there, you need to change your CSS. In main.css, add,

    h3 {font-size: 12px}

    Or something similar. I’m not sure exactly what you want to accomplish. As far as HTML editors to embed in the page, I’d suggest looking at http://xinha.python-hosting.com/ . It is somewhat complicated to get going, but I’m willing to help, if you want. De-obfuscate my email if you’re interested, and I’ll do what I can for you – we’ve integrated it in a few different things before.

  4. 4.

    Libertine

    May 29, 2005 at 11:40 am

    Remember the movie Stripes?

    All they need is one heavily armed Recreational Vehicle…hehe.

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