Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Displatch #1

9:16pm: He actually used the phrase Weapons of Mass Destruction. Thought that term no longer passed the straight-face test. Dammit Iran!

Incidentally, Slate has a nice piece about the parody-of-itself the SOTU address has become.

9:19pm: The continuing rhetorical power of the "we must fight terrorism abroad or else the vicious attackers bring the battle here" line astounds, given its logical inadequacies. The Iraq war has done a lot more for Al Qaeda's recruiting and retention than for the United States military's.

9:27pm: Never trust a man with beady eyes

9:32pm: Can't deal with his appropriating human rights discourse. Big problem.

9:35pm: Never trust a man with a crooked smile

9:40pm: Does he not realize that the camera is on him even when he's not talking, recording his smirks and winks?

9:41pm: That's all for me. Good night.

2 Comments:

Blogger Akash said...

The State of the Union is a joke - I am in the middle of doing a piece on it for my blog - it just sounds the same every year although I especially loved the "Americans are addicted to Oil" part of the speech this year. Does anyone believe him anymore?

disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

1:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The phrase "weapons of mass destruction" is so funny in itself. It is used as if to say "how dare these countries seek out weapons that actually do damage." As if the US and other western countries only have weapons that don't create mass destruction. Can you picture Boeing or Lockheed Martin going to the gov't and pitching how little destruction their weapons do.

4:06 PM  

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