THE DAILY BLADE: Finally, A Language Even Liberals Can Understand
The New York Times describes a special language that Voice of America developed some 50 years ago to broadcast to non-English speakers around the world. “Special English” not only has a limited vocabulary of 1,500 words grouped into “short, simple phrases without the idioms and clichés of colloquial English” but – and here’s the part that will help liberals – broadcasters speak really slooooowly, “about two-thirds the speed of conversational English.” The Stiletto urges that, in addition to a sign language translator, President Bush and his cabinet have a Special English translator on hand when they give speeches on how tax cuts stimulate the economy; what will happen if we cut and run in Iraq; why President Bush needs the line item veto; why global warming is the latest environmental hoax; and how President Bush won the 2000 and 2004 elections fair and square.
There Ought To Be A Law. Oh, Wait – There Is!
It seems that some residents of Spokane, WA are dismayed and disgusted by the detritus left behind by people who engage in “lewd conduct” in public parks – “Discarded underwear, lubrication packets and condoms are regularly found in the bushes,” according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The problem of public sex is so pervasive, that park workers and local residents have taken to warning visitors not to let their kids enter
“It's something that we're aware of, but it's not a new situation. Risky behavior is risky behavior. It happens,” said
Incredibly, she does not think that dirty underpants, used condoms and such pose a public health risk.
City Council member
The Stiletto has a radical thought: What you do is enforce the law. This isn’t just “risky behavior.” These people are sex offenders – engaging in indecent exposure and lewd conduct in a public place are defined as criminal sexual conduct in every jurisdiction except, apparently,
Why Is This An Either Or Proposition?
The Baltimore Sun recently ran a Q&A with
You're a harsh critic of the press. You say reporters often misquote you. What are a couple of examples?
It happens so much I don't keep track ... anymore. ... I have no idea how this happens, given the strict objectivity and rigid nonpartisanship of the American media.
What two or three big news stories has the press overplayed or misrepresented in the past few years?
It would be simpler to name the two or three stories the press did not overplay or misrepresent. Either every single person working in the media today is thoroughly incompetent in every way, or this massive, daily misrepresentation is the result of left-wing bias throughout the media. I'll let you decide which ... is the most plausible.
This is a false choice, since one supposition does not automatically cancel out the other. From her own experiences with the MSM, The Stiletto believes that for all the navel gazing they do, most journalists and editors are completely unaware of their pronounced liberal inclinations – thus unable to distinguish between objective fact and their own subjective opinions when they report a story.
Worse, though many journalists are college and/or journalism school graduates these days, they are too often utterly innumerate and scientifically illiterate. They simply do not have the knowledge needed, nor the analytical skills required, to understand and explain many of the controversial issues on which they are asked to report. And whatever they don’t understand, they leave out. So the resulting articles and news reports are incomplete and inaccurate - and biased.
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