AXIS OF BIAS

Lileks observes a moronic convergence:

11:50 NPR is running . . . the BBC. It’s interesting, listening to these guys – I’m unsure how it’s possible to sneer the entire time you’re speaking. I fear the announcer’s face will stay that way. Perhaps you can recognize an old Beeb hand by the permanently curled lip. I’ve tuned in twice in half an hour; both times they were talking about the FAILURE to get Saddam, and what this FAILURE means for the war which might be hindered by this initial FAILURE. And then the reporter – a female one, with a sneerier sneer – says the question now is when the attack will come, and whether the President will give his generals permission to act with a free hand.
Um . . . haven’t we already settled that question? I know it conflicts with the Beeb’s view of Bush as a vulture with a bloody globe clutched in one claw, the other holding the leashes of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but I heard hours ago that theater decisions had been left to the folks who do this for a living.
Unbelievable: NPR’s top of the hour theme is somber, downbeat, with a few disconsolate snare drums – music to lose by! Is it too much to ask of these people to play something that doesn’t sound like the music you’d use for the sinking of a f–king aircraft carrier? *$#%*(#$%$#5

Nah, James. They’ve only just begun. Imagine how terrified they are that Saddam might actually be dead.