Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Are you kidding?

Another for the You-can't-make-this-up file: Andrew Bolt in Australia's Herald Sun recounts comments from Australia's Andrew Jaspan. They must be read to be believed:

Said Jaspan: "I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood's use of the a---hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.

"The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive." The ingrate.

A quick check of the summary of Wood's ordeal and you fully appreciate Jaspan's idiocy. I quote: ...his apparent demand that Wood be more grateful to the men who'd snatched him, kicked him in the head, kept him blindfolded and bound for 47 days, shaved him bald, killed two of his colleagues, made him beg for his life, and -- says a fellow hostage from Sweden -- shot several other prisoners in front of him.

Idiocy is idiocy and we ought not be afraid to describe it as such.

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