Cynical Sound(word)bites, From The BBC

Ξ April 1st, 2006 | → | ∇ |

It seems those at the BBC News offices are in a cynical mood for sound bites, or I’m reading it wrongly.

Jack Straw and Condoleezza Rice are doing the rounds in the UK, etc etc, woo-hoo, and obviously front page news. However this seemed to catch my eye:
Mr. Straw:
“They (protesters) said they were going to get bus loads and bus loads in. Well they didn’t do very well,”

I imagine him saying this and laughing to himself. Especially reiterating the “bus loads”. That doesn’t make you sound like a 10 year old, does it? You can almost imagine him doing hand movements to describe a bit thing. He chuckles to himself, saying this in such a way that’s incredibly patronising to those who’ve tried to organise a peaceful protest, especially the, “Well, they didn’t do very well”, bit. He’s made it sound like they couldn’t be arsed or something.
Some random woman:

“To me it’s astonishing to have a person like that in a town like Blackburn”

What does that say about your town, and what it contains? I’m just sayin’, I mean, you seem to have sooooo much faith in it.

And finally, Ms Rice, the woman with the longest name on the planet chirped in:

“It was not a mistake to overthrow Saddam Hussein… it was not a mistake to unleash the forces of democracy in the Middle East“

Watchin’ one too many superhero movies there, Conda.. Con.. .. Ms. Rice. You make it sound like the Bush administration is from Krypton (well they aren’t from this planet, lets be honest) and your troops had rayguns (that was no doubt developed in the 60s to combat them damn Commies), that some previous administration has developed. Maybe, it’s that that’s been blessed by God on to you, or whatever.
Don’t get me wrong, I love democracy (when it works), but when you make it sound like something from a Cold War propaganda video at a comic book store, everyone laughs at you.

Ms Rice said there had been mistakes made in Iraq, saying: “If you’ve ever done anything then you’ve probably not done it perfectly.”

That’s like coming home with an F on your school report and trying to pass it off as a complicated subject that you thought you had the grasp of, but didn’t quite get it right although you truely did strive for perfection, but the hard honest truth is you’re just shit at it.

That’s some entertaining afternoon reading, Thanks, BBC.