BBC tool slips “insh’allah” into his Iraq reporting

No, it’s just one of those quirky EU rules–similar to our old fairness doctrine (may it rest in peace). They have an EU bureaucrat sitting there counting these things (like a socialist Snerdly), and every time someone says something like, “Jeez” or “oy” (but not “‘Oy!”) or “ohmygod,” or “bloody,” (it isa religious reference according to EU protocol), or “‘odds bodkins,” a newsperson has to slip “in’shallah” into the broadcast somewhere. It’s really bad when they get backed up, and the weather lady, who does the ending bit has to get everything caught up saying like, “The weather for Tueday, in’shallah, will be morning rain, followed, in’shallah, by a clearing trend. Clouds, in’shallah, will dissipate by late afternoon. . .” It does take a bit of training, I mean you can’t just stick it in anywhere, right? You can’t have somebody say, “So the PM took the late night in’shallah flight to New York to meet, etc.” It doesn’t go, does it? And the EU programme observer has to be sharp so they don’t count it when someone says, like, “cheese,” or “demigod,” or something like that. They all muddle through somehow and the EU guy makes 250 pounds a week, so that’s not bad, eh?

I guess it does smack of dhimmitude, now that you mention it.

smellthecoffee on April 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM