Friday, October 12, 2007
How many picture captions can Newsweek get wrong in one story? 5 of 6. Martin Kramer: Our sorcery exposed!
The neocon conspiracy embedded in the Giuliani campaign, of which I am a part, is most devious. One of our occult powers is our ability to assume the physical traits of one another. This makes it much easier to elude our pursuers. You may see the evidence for our powers in the accompanying graphic, taken from this week's Newsweek. 
You will note, for example, that I have assumed the features of Daniel Pipes. This is made possible by the fact that Pipes and I have the same birthday--September 9--the number nine having magical properties in neocon spells. (See "sorcery, neoconservative" in the index to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby.)
Alas, the witch-hunters at Newsweek belatedly figured out our trick, and published this correction in their Internet edition:
Editor's Note: In our print edition, several captions for the photographs accompanying this report were inadvertantly [sic] transposed. Martin Kramer's photograph is identified as Norman Podhoretz; Daniel Pipes's photograph is identified as Kramer; Peter Berkowitz's photograph is identified as Pipes; Nile Gardiner's photograph is identified as Berkowitz's and Podhoretz's photograph is identified as Gardiner's. NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
(Believe me, they don't regret it as much as my mother does. She's livid.)...
...The inevitable implication is that, for Newsweek staff, all conservatives look alike...
I cancelled my long-time subscription to "Noise Week" last year because of their unending liberal/feminist agenda, from their stories to their advertisements. They've turned into a supermarket checkout rag.
It is very sad when you stop and think of the once great news papers and magazines readers had to choose from in this country.
I remember many years ago hearing a reporter ( I can't remember who) being interviewed in the early days of network television, stating that his father (who once worked for The Brooklyn Eagle)
told him if you read it in the Eagle son you could always believe it.
That may have been a myth but one would hope that it was true and could be true again.
Can that be said of any major newspaper or magazine today, anywhere?
Mistakes we can forgive, deceitful intent is unforgivable.