The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Out on a Limb
- “The Arab League Is a Farce”–headline, PajamasMedia.com, March 20
- “MINITER: Japanese Are No More and No Less Honorable Than Americans”–headline, Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.), March 20
And Bees Don’t Really Know How to Spell
” ‘Talking’ Pooch Likely Has No Idea What He’s ‘Saying’ “–headline, Bangor (Maine) Daily News, March 17
News of the Tautological
“You only go into orbit for the first time around Mercury once in human history, and that’s what we’ve done tonight.”–NASA’s Edward Weiler, quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, March 18
The Hobgoblin of Little Times
Here’s a thoughtless lead paragraph from a New York Times story:
In a Paris hotel room [last] Monday night, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Libya.
Whatever the merits of Mrs. Clinton’s exhortations to the Emiratis, how is it inconsistent to ask for help in a military operation against a repressive regime while repudiating a military operation in defense of a repressive regime?
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