Friday, August 16, 2002

Sullywatch picks a part the bewildered American's (?!) latest drivel in the [London] Times . My guess is he'll lose his gig there too fairly soon.

I liked this part:


[H]e resorts (as he always does) to waving the bloody shirt ... in this case referring to “the mass grave of 3,000 Americans in the middle of New York City."


This one stretches tolerance even for one accustomed to Sully’s histrionics.


First off, uh, it wasn’t three thousand (the exact count is 2,823, not including Atta & Co.).


OK, he rounded up, but that doesn't excuse the second point, which is: not all of those killed in the crash and collapse of the World Trade Center were Americans. There were Canadians, Russians, Israelis, Indians, and ... dare we say it, quite a few of his fellow Brits. In fact, more Britons died in this than in any other terrorist attack, anywhere, ever (yes, even more than Pan Am 103).


Sully could actually use this as the base of a better argument to Europeans, but it's very telling that he doesn't.