Posted by zeugma on March 8, 2006, at 8:11:34
In reply to personality ID cards » zeugma, posted by 10derHeart on March 7, 2006, at 22:00:56
is fortunately written down these days, and the ephemera of history are preserved in electronic caches hopefully more durable than the relics of ancient Mesopotamia that were lost when the Iraqi museums were looted.
Don't throw out your deck because you have a spurious copy.
but my memory was not deceiving me, either. I was not joking, but I was using a joke to refer seriously to an individual that i picked out as being that wildest of cards (no deck is complete without one!), in particular this:
A Reporter Delivers a Good One-Liner at
the CENTCOM BriefingNo new Letterman shows the last couple of nights, so no Top Ten list to end on, but MRC analyst Ken Shepherd caught a humorous one-liner from Sky News correspondent Geoff Meade at Friday's CENTCOM briefing in Doha.
Meade, referring to the packs of playing cards with photos of wanted Iraqi leaders which the coalition is distributing, quipped: “On your deck of 55 most wanted, does that include the former Information Minister? -- because every pack needs a joker.”
Brigadier General Vincent Brooks liked that: “Well said, Geoff. Well said. Well, there are jokers in this deck, there’s no doubt about that.”
At Monday's briefing Meade had asked: “If Iraq was so unable to defend itself, was it really the threat to the world on which this whole war was predicated?”
I prefer his jokes.
-- Brent Baker
source disclosure:CyberAlerts. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996. Saturday, April 12, 2003 (Vol. Eight;No.74)
[note: this magazine is available online, I do not post links anymore except to Amazon titles as a general policy, because I must make it perfectly clear that I am not responsible for, or necessarily agree with, any of the content contained elsewhere on sites I link to, no matter what their political orientation, and I select that which I cite here because I can answer for whatever is contained in what I cite, and others can question whether my interpretation is accurate. I gather that the site I drew the above is a conservative media outlet, merely going by its subheading and by the comment at the article's end that "I prefer his jokes" (i.e. Mr. Meyer got a laugh out of Mr. Meade's jesting question to Brig. Gen. Brooks, which clearly had the former Iraqi Information Minister as referent, to which Brig.Gen. replied in kind. Perhaps I go into tedious detail. My aim is "education" and that cannot be done by cooking the history books)].
so in summary the deck did not contain the former Iraqi Information Minister as Joker, and yet the U.S. military spokesman at the time did laugh at Mr. Meade's use of "Joker" to refer to 'Baghdad Bob,' and did acknowledge that Mr.Meade's comment was "well said," which I take to be an endorsement of the use of the term to refer to said Information Minister. I leave it to you, 838, James K, Declan (if indeed he is unblocked- perhaps I saw a mirage a few nights ago) or any other reader to decide whether my comment above did in fact succeed in the using the term 'Joker' to indicate the former Information Minister. My usage of the term was parasitic on that of Brig. Gen. Brooks' (the fact that his own use was parasitic on Mr. Meade's is irrelevant), and I took that to be a serious enough warrant (I take warrants MOST seriously) for saying that I was not joking when I said that 'the Joker was captured first.' I was not; I was quite seriously using the official U.S. military spokesman's usage of the term "Joker" to pick out the former Iraqi Information Minister,which reached my ears as it undoubtedly did yours (for we are both avidly interested in these matters); one which has a certain historical piquancy.
if any of this blizzard of justification is anything you wish to contest or demand I clarify, I will of course take your replies seriously. Maybe too seriously, but I am all for "education." And I will not be cryptic any longer.
"Live free or die."
-z
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