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Did you catch the line in her piece about cutting her guy slack because Arabs are liars? If Foer said something like that, you would call him a racist, and you would probably be right.

Jesus the Pooh
 

I thought it was also a more general reference to the Sudanese's record of respect for the sanctity of human life. My bad. Here, have a decapitated teddy bear. His name is W.

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Fuck you, assclam.

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Per K-lo, he emailed the author, not NRO. So she did - as he claimed - get a warning 6 weeks ago.

Good lord, spare your moral judgments and stick with the facts - you asked for the response from the right-side of the blogosphere and I listed several leading sources that all disproved your assertion.

Yes, I'm exactly right.

Are you at all serious? Where do you want to start?

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Jesus, how little bait does it take?

ETA: Because you'll like it, search for the Clapton/Winwood bits from the Crossroads guitar festival on Youtube. "Clapton Winwood Crossorads" works.

I am correct that you are the person who was a big Traffic fan, right?

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For the record, I don't care about either.

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Except that it has proven in Iraq that Iraqi/Arab/Palestinian stringers have repeatedly lied and gotten the likes of Reuters, AP and AFP all in trouble.

So I ask you this - should a statement, even if somehow "racist" on its face, be criticized as such if accurate?

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Fantastic.

Orwell that.
 

I take this mean you instead prefer to whitewash straight facts to some PC agenda.

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Actually, your smugness, if that's what "fantastic" is meant to convey, may be misplaced there. There have been many discussions in the press for decades about how Arabs are misperceived as being liars in the West. It could be that the suggestion Arabs mislead news organizations derives from a cultural disconnect between Western reporting and Arab expression. This touches on the issue:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/...15Arc3061.html

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Per K-Lo, it took her weeks to do anything. That's not "immediately."

No, I asked whether they were getting as "exercised." Clearly, they are less upset that the guy made up a 5,000-man Hezbollah invasion than they are that Beauchamp mocked a way at a base in Kuwait, not Iraq.

Anywhere you like. Take his latest. Where are the lies?

I'm not a Foer fan. He fired Spencer Ackerman. His book on soccer was a disappointment. I can't be bothered to read his brother's novel. Just so we're clear.

Orwell that.
 

By "straight facts," you mean the assertion that Arabs are liars? At least you acknowledge that it's racism.

What's especially fantastic is that this comes up in the context -- and as the defense for -- massive lying by a conservative reporter. But Arabs are liars. Keep your eyes on the ball.

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How about conservatives being perceived as liars? Bush has known about that NIE for a year, and has been beating the drum about Iran's nuclear program all this time anyway? It's enough to make you think of Iraqi's nuclear program, say.

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Yes. I'd criticize it as racist. But I'd also have to acknowledge that it is accurate to a degree. Those are two different issues. It could be said that the statement "There tend to be a disproportionate amount of drinking problems in Irish and Russian culture" is racist or ethnically insensitive. But unless the empirical and anecdotal evidence I've seen is woefully inaccurate, its also a true statement.

This is the big problem for PC types. They get stuck having to stifle accurate information when what they should be saying is "So what? That doesn't mean all Irish or Russians are drunks. You should view people on a person by person basis." Instead, for reasons I don't understand, they choose to freak out and harrumph from their high horse as soon as the statement is made. And this winds up hurting them because it makes their positions look like they're trying to avoid dealing openly with information.

An honest true PC fundamentalist would admit that their mindset is one where they actively seek to suppress certain information, even if its true.

Maybe that's a good thing in the long run, but no one can admit that out loud in a country with so much reverance for freedom of speech.

For the record, I am part of my anecdotal evidence.

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Well, regarding Bush, there's no perception issue. He is a liar in regard to many things, including just about everything having to do with Iraq.