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

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:41:15 +0000

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smellthecoffee on April 13, 2007 at 12:18 AM

Lampoon. Google it.

By: smellthecoffee

smellthecoffee — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:18:35 +0000

I’d love to conform to your editorial standards (seriously), but I’m having a hard time figuring out what they are. Look up the thread–there’s nothing in my post that’s beyond that standard.

Allah Akbar.

Aloha Snackbar!!

Inch Allah!

Hey Mullah Fukka’s!

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By: smellthecoffee

smellthecoffee — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:00:23 +0000

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.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:38:55 +0000

Taste like dhimmitude

Defector01 on April 12, 2007 at 1:34 PM

Yup!

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NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Noisy News Around the Web… — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:36:37 +0000

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By: Merovign

Merovign — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:10:25 +0000

Yeah. Unh-huh. Just like reporters always say “Praise Jesus!” after they report some good news from the Bible-belt.

Oh, I forgot, they don’t report good news.

I think the “shallow-vs-deep” argument is well-made, not so much the “naive-vs-cynical” one.

By: Kai

Kai — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:59:53 +0000

Yeah, I’d like to see a “Shema Yisrael” come out some day in thier mideast reporting.

Tools.

By: CliffHanger

CliffHanger — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:46:47 +0000

Hey Mullah Fukka’s!

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:39:44 +0000

Inch Allah!

By: MCPO Airdale

MCPO Airdale — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:33:36 +0000

Aloha Snackbar!!

By: Glynn

Glynn — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:18:16 +0000

Allah Akbar.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:55:24 +0000

I’m just waiting for “Allah is great” to come out of one these “journalists” mouths.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:47:56 +0000

Hey BBC, YO MOMMA SO BALD that she took a shower and got brain-washed.

By: Professor Blather

Professor Blather — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:42:42 +0000

God willing, the B-2′s are being warmed up on the runway as I type. Er, God willing.

By: Canadian Imperialist Running Dog

Canadian Imperialist Running Dog — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:30:16 +0000

does this mean he converted?

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:17:31 +0000

Yeah. Peace Through Pork, baby!

By: MoxArgon

MoxArgon — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:13:47 +0000

The local flavour doesn’t taste like bacon.

And bacon is the taste of all that is good in the world.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:09:51 +0000

Reminds me of back in the 1980s when it was fashionable in lefty circles to pronounced Nicaragua more like a native. It was comical, really, to hear someone who didn’t know a word of spanish pronouncing Nicaragua like a native. It was a fashion at the time so people of this mindset could detect each other during conversations at cocktail parties. Insh’allah will be the new Nickadagwa.

By: db

db — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:03:18 +0000

unless followed by “an th’ river don’t rise”

By: CurtZHP

CurtZHP — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:49:36 +0000

Yeah, I hear people say “God willing” all the time.

/sarcasm off

My Christian friends don’t even say that!

By: BillINDC

BillINDC — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:43:56 +0000

Everyone in Iraq says “Insh’allah,” religious or not. It is very much analogous to the secular use of “God willing” as mentioned in the first link.

Nothing to see here except a reporter being a cheesy by using the local vernacular as his own speech. Unsurprising given the news anchor/reporter tradition of painfully pronouncing local names and words with a full-on local accent.

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:38:53 +0000

First comes the white flag, then comes the Green Flag.

By: Bad Candy

Bad Candy — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:38:51 +0000

The way Edward R. Murrow used to suddenly lapse into German during World War II. Remember that?

Keith Olbermann would have you believe that.

Good night and good luck…

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:34:28 +0000

Taste like dhimmitude