At Buzzfeed, Gates of Vienna is being portrayed as one of the places that felt sorry for Saddam. They even renamed our post:
“How Can I Keep From Singing?” — a post which examined a just fate for an evil man — has been renamed “Saddam Looks Like Poor Helpless Old Man at Execution”.
What drugs are these people on? May I have some of them?
At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe.
We are in a new phase of a very old war.
7 comments:
The problem with the net is that everything is ephemeral, and people make the mistake of judging things based on that ephemeral nature. It seems fairly obvious this "Buzzfeed" place hasn't read much, if any, of GoV beyond the post they linked to.
Funny thing, the verification text for this post is "vienkoyg". Proving that you can find anything in just about anything else, the japanese words "ko ei ge" (ko y g) can be assembled as "great victory deed", leaving "Vienna Great Victory Deed" or some such. Of course it can also mean "Old rayfish deception"... :)
The only ORIGINAL, unedited cell phone video of Saddam's hanging was first posted on this blog Saturday.
We will not say how we got it, so would the media PLEASE stop contacting us!
http://www.indierockcafe.com/2006/12/cell-phone-video-hanging-of-saddam.html
Sorry, here is the link to the original saddam video.
Maybe a computer read the Gates posting and didn't pick up on the nuances.
There was definetely a strong opinion in at least the portion of the blogosphere I gaze at, that said the execution was mishandled. That's not even close to the same thing as being sympathetic to Saddam.
Hey free traffic, but at the cost of twisting your words.
I believe the execution was mishandled but not exactly in the way most are talking about … hmmm, I wonder if my nuance will be lost.
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