Originally posted by Loz#1
If there was something important happening elsewhere in the world, or in NSW, don't you think that would have made the paper instead?
No, I don't. There are many things more important than a Beckham sex scandal happening at the moment. Iraq, for example. The consequences of the NSW mini-budget. The US State department interfering in Australian domestic politics. Need I continue?
The Beckham scandal is front page news because it sells newspapers. If you think that the front page always goes to the most important story, then I admire your idealism, and I am sorry to disillusion you.
Does anyone understand this?
Leaving aside comrade nathan's post - which I agree is inarticulate at best - does anyone else see the irony in someone posing as GWB correcting someone else's use of language? After all:
"I'm a uniter, not a divider. This means that when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up." - GWB on
Late Night with David Letterman, 1 March, 2000, shortly after Letterman had open-heart surgery.
"There is a lot of speculation and I guess there is going to continue to be a lot of speculation until the speculation ends" - GWB on whether he'd run for President, to the
Austin-American Statesman, 18 October, 1998.
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness" - GWB in a CNN online chat, 30 August, 2000.
"More and more of our imports come from overseas" - GWB in a speech in Beaverton, Oregon, on 25 September, 2000.
"Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work." - GWB on
60 Minutes II on CBS, 5 December, 2000.
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." - GWB in a speech in Arlington Heights, Illinois on 24 October, 2000.
and, of course, who could forget
"What's not fine is, rarely is the question asked, are, is our children learning?" - GWB quoted in the
LA Times, 14 January, 2000.
I could go on ...
