From: "Bob Gambs" <goatclan-AT-charter.net>
Subject: Re: Why did the chicken...
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:21:42 -0500


Yeah, but he writes weird--all squiggly and such.  If English be good enow
for our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enow for old Al
Jazzeer, dih?

Goat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Coull" <coull-AT-onetel.net.uk>
To: "dan combs" <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>;
<anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 03:58
Subject: Re: Why did the chicken...
> Look, I realise it's a joke, but sometimes you just got to pick
> an argument with a joke. Al Jazeera is the result of the BBC
> deciding to cut back on its Arabic Service. A group of redundant
> BBC Arabic Service employees decided the best thing they
> could do would be to have a go at starting their own TV station.
> Their bosses at the British Broadcasting Corporation had taught
> them that news reporters had a responsibility to try to be objective,
> so that is what they try to be. In fact, since the whole Iraq
> business started, they have been doing a better job of this
> than the BBC. The main propaganda where Al Jazeera is
> concerned is the propaganda being spread by USA government
> agents that they are some sort of mouthpiece for al qaeda.
> It is a well established fact that, during the Iraq War, Al Jazeera's
> offices in Baghdad were deliberately targeted by the US military.
> In order to justify such actions, US government agents have
> to pretend that this group of former BBC employees are
> fanatical Islamists in league with both Bin Laden and Saddam.
> They have been so successfull at spreading this idea,
> now even anti-government jokers are repeating it.
>
> If Al Jazeera says that eye-witnesses saw a large group of
> occupation soldiers forcing the chicken, at gunpoint, to cross
> the road multiple times, then, so far as I'm concerned, that
> is the most reliable report of the chicken-crossing-road incident
> that we have.
>
> Dave C
>
>
>