Friday - May 06, 2011

Worst Headline of the Day

Hello to anyone not completely brain dead. What does that headline mean to you?

To me, it is a 100% blatant statement that the news about the impending raid on bin Laden’s compound was leaked. That the most ultra secret, best hidden, only-6-people-in-the-whole-government-knew plan personally engineered by the Great I Am, greatest surprise action in this administration’s history not only got out of the bag, but got to our enemies; that perhaps only a few hours or even minutes separated a Killer Coup from another Carter Disaster.

That isn’t what the story is about. Not at all.

The death of Osama Bin Laden has dealt a serious blow to Al Qaeda recruitment and has diminished the organization’s capability, Asa Hutchinson, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security told CNBC on Wednesday.

Hutchinson said with the operation, carried out by US forces, the US has proven it can and will fight the war on terrorism.

“You think about this being the command center,” Hutchinson said. “Their capability has been diminished …the benefits from this will come over the next year.”

It would also help to limit recruitment for the terrorist organization, he said, as potential fighters might wonder whether they were “going to wind up having breakfast with a navy seal”.

Talk about irresponsible journalism. We’ll ignore completely the obvious facts: a) we probably have no way of keeping tabs on how many splodeydopes sign up for AQ on a weekly or even monthly basis, and b) seeing as OBL got offed less than a week ago, it’s far too soon to be able to spot any kind of trend even if we did have perfect data on a).

No, let’s talk instead about a misquote so wanton that not even “fake but accurate” fits the picture. Undersecretary Hutchinson said nothing of the kind. The only “warning” that could possibly come out of his remarks would be to potential AQ recruits, and potential recruits are just that: not yet members. Not part of Al Qaeda. Raggies merely thinking about being wannabes. Even the context is pretty stupid: AQ leadership has been shown to be one of the world’s most risky jobs for years and years now, as our guys pop them with decent regularity. Knocking off the top goat sucker is just one more deader in the sack. Any potential recruit who hasn’t figured this out by now probably needs a suicide belt labeled “this side towards infidels”. So the “warning” isn’t even a warning, it’s such old news that it’s merely the de facto situation: join us, and you’ll most likely die. OTOH, nuclear DUH moment: that’s why these losers sign up, right? They want to die. They want to achieve martyrdom. Their lives suck so bad that being dead has to be an improvement, whether that gets them 72 raisins or not.

Antonia van de Velde, the CNBC Associate Web Producer who wrote this crap, ought to be terminated. Oooh, I must have just made a warning! “Blogger makes death threats against CNBC!!!” Geez Louise. No, you idiots, all I’m saying is that if your authors have such poor writing abilities and such a drive to provide sensationalist headlines that they are willing to make up BS out of whole cloth, then they should not be working for anything close to a respectable news organization. (which is my opinion of CNBC: close to, but not really, a respectable news organization) What’s next? “Osama bin Laden was secret time travelling love child between Bat Boy and Natalee Holloway, raised by the ghost of Elvis”??

Turn in your press pass van de Velde: TOTAL FAIL.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/06/2011 at 08:42 AM   
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