I wasn’t the first blogger to make the uncanny resemblance between Monsieur Mohammed Said Sahaf (why do I think of these Iraqi nutjobs as somehow French?) and Monty Python’s Black Knight. Sorry, Josh, Josh, Jonah et al. that I was so unaware. To make amends, here’s a link to the sketch. Money script (after the Black Knight has lost both arms):
ARTHUR: Look, I’ll have your leg. [kick] Right! [whop] [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT’s right leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: Right. I’ll do you for that!
ARTHUR: You’ll what?
BLACK KNIGHT: Come here!
ARTHUR: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
BLACK KNIGHT: I’m invincible!
ARTHUR: You’re a looney.
BLACK KNIGHT: The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on, then. [whop] [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT’s last leg off]
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh? All right, we’ll call it a draw.
ARTHUR: Come, Patsy.
BLACK KNIGHT: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what’s coming to you. I’ll bite your legs off!
BAGHDAD BROADCASTING CORPORATION: From an Israeli blogger’s reported conversation with an Iraqi relative:
“He also told me that although he seldom speaks Arabic these days (though I heard him conversing with family members), he listens to the Arabic service of the BBC. Without my prompting him, he said that he also couldn’t understand how the British could be broadcasting such lies against their own forces. The BBC service is dominated by Egyptian Muslim fundamentalists, he told me. Can’t they find any moderate Arabic-speaking broadcasters who could present fair coverage? He wanted to write to the British government, but, well, he just didn’t know how. But how could this be? How could this be?”
The BBC, in other words, was actually producing pro-Saddam propaganda to the Iraqi people at the same time as British forces lives were at risk. Someone needs to investigate the Arabic Language Service. Daniel Pipes, can’t you get someone on the case?
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