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Couple of Quick Points

Submitted August 29, 2004 - 11:47 am by Baylen Linnekin
1) Fisking, as a quick Google search (please don't make me explain what Google is) would have revealed, is simply the act of ripping apart a poorly researched piece. (See http://www.samizdata.net/blog/glossary_archives/00 1961.html , for instance.) Regardless of how it entered the vernacular, it is now widely used -- and not exclusively nor, I'd bet, even mostly by neo-cons.

2) In support of this, see Abe Ferlman's post Sunday, June 27 post at the Daily Kos, which Al erroneously claims never uses the term "fisk." What, then, is this?

"More F911 - I fisk BuzzMachine
by abe ferlman
Sun Jun 27th, 2004 at 12:44:53 GMT

Jeff Jarvis reviewed F911 on his blog, and I fisk his review.
Here's the link:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bryguypgh/71895.h tml

Here's an excerpt:

: The real problem with the film, the really offensive thing about it, is that in Fahrenheit 9/11, we -- Americans from the President on down -- are portrayed as the bad guys.

So, Lila Lipscolm and her family are not Americans? Are they Canadian or something? Did we see the same movie?"

(Daily Kos fisking post is here: http://abe-ferlman.dailykos.com/story/2004/6/27/84 453/2959)

3) Fox refused to support the war in Iraq because he felt -- as did the French, Germans and others -- that inspectors needed more time to, well, inspect. Read about it here (http://english.pravda.ru/war/2003/03/11/44241.html ), including this quote from Vicente: "It is obvious that Iraq cannot disarm before March 17." This date, you may recall, was the U.S. deadline to disarm, after which the Bush administration reserved for itself the right to attack Iraq. This was an affront to the Bush administration.

4) Re: not invading Mexico, I think the current administration does not care one bit about world opinion. Bush's drug czar has already threatened Canada over that country's exportation of high-quality marijuana to the states. If the Bush administration can threaten Canada (!), it can do worse to Mexico. Sorry.

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