Ummm...this is one HELL of a typo, don't you think?

[MsKandice01]

Excuse me if this is a repeat:

Here's the screenshot of an article that's on MSNBC right now. Read the paragraph that starts: "The effect of the timeline". There's something very, very wrong about it. Can you spot it? If you want to read this article in its entirety, it's here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17811336/

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. Telling

Those insurgents are everywhere you know. :eyes:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. outsurgents are even worser. I'm series.

Of course, they are confounded and confused by the presence of upsurgents and downsurgents, but everyone agrees that strangesurgents are truly the worst.

[jackstraw45]

2. That wacky Corporate Media....

nt

[Patsy Stone]

3. A what?

Joe's a what? What is an independent Democrat? (Small "i", capital "D")

[SharonRB]

5. Hey, you, get back in the Clubhouse

Countdown isn't over!

:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

7. I'm everywhere, baby! :) n/t

[SharonRB]

4. Anti-war insurgent?

WTF?

[NightWatcher]

12. so being anti war now makes you an insurgent?

damn, that's subtle...NOT

[Canuckistanian]

50. Ned Lamont was an anti-war insurgent?

Who knew?

:shrug:

[helderheid]

23. Holy crap!!

:wow:

[Jacobin]

fucking amazing

just fucking amazing

[IDemo]

6. From the Coulter news agency?

[wake.up.america]

8. snatch defeat from the jaws of progress?

[MsKandice01]

11. Keep reading...

[wake.up.america]

17. anti war insurgent

[Sapere aude]

9. Snatch defeat from the jaws of progress?

should be, snatch success from the jaws of defeat.

[MsKandice01]

13. Keep reading...

[crikkett]

29. it's actually supposed to be "snatch defeat from the jaws of VICTORY"

which is what Navy Football did time/again when I had the fortune of attending that wonderful institution of higher knowledge.

[Richard Steele]

36. Not even these lying fools can say "victory" with a straight face anymore. nm

[Straight Shooter]

39. "snatch victory from the jaws of defeat"

:P

Well, at least they didn't call him a traitor, or a terrorist. Jeebers.

[Sapere aude]

14. anti war insurgent!

[Marie26]

15. So Democrats are insurgents now?

Nice. Lieberman's quote is also unintentionally telling. He can't talk about "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory," because there's no victory to be found in Iraq, so he morphs the quote into "snatching defeat from the jaws of progress" instead. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Even Lieberman doesn't truly believe victory is possible in Iraq.

[ljm2002]

16. Wow.

Who knew Lieberman was such a war hero, snatching his election victory from that nasty anti-war insurgent!

Wow.

[drm604]

18. So Ned Lamont is an anti-war insurgent?

Who would have guessed? :shrug:

[Nikki Stone1]

33. That trickly little Lamont... Imagine. An insurgent in his spare time!

:)

[The Doctor.]

19. 'Insurgent'?

WTF?

How do you get that from 'independent'?

[MsKandice01]

22. Actually, it was supposed to say candidate

Or something like that. At least independent and insurgent start with the same letters but clearly, whoever wrote this article was either high or trying to be funny. There's just no other explanation.

[The Doctor.]

42. They deserve a

"one way ticket to the Moon!"

How could you and your editor fuck up that bad? (Not 'YOU', of course, but the idiot who wrote it.)

[jayctravis]

51. Possibly a very unfortunate spellcheck gaffe?

He needs to stop using the Republicant wordprocessor dictionary.

[Miss Chybil]

20. Anti-war insurgent? WTF? nt

[CorpGovActivist]

21. An Unlikely Underdog Is Often Referenced as Mounting an "Insurgent" Bid

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22insurgent+bid%22

In context, I think they meant that Lamont mounted an insurgent bid in the Democratic primary.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=lieberman+challenger+lamont+insurgent

Come on ... let's not all succumb to Rove's Thesaurus.

; )

- Dave

[MsKandice01]

26. Oooh...excuse my ignorance..

I think that very few people would know what that means. It was poor wording regardless.

[CorpGovActivist]

30. It's a Fairly Common Way of Describing an Underdog in a Political Fight

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/insurgent

Howard Dean's upstart bid for the Democratic nod in 04 was described as an insurgent bid for the nomination: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=insurgent+howard+dean

Newt Gingrich has been described as the once-and-future insurgent in the GOP: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=gingrich+insurgent

Ned Lamont could - very aptly - be described as having mounted an "insurgent" bid (taking on the establishment candidate in the primaries), and he mounted that surprise bid on an anti-war platform.

Teddy Roosevelt mounted an insurgent bid for the nom, going so far as to form the Bull Moose Party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_moose_party

If we allow Karl Rove and the GOP machine to rob and cheapen our political vocabulary, and make certain words taboo, we'll see a whole new set of words become "dirty," like "liberal".

I think in fairness, the journalist meant to refer to Lamont favorably, by making dual note of his surprising success - and of the fact that his success was due in no small part to his vocal anti-war stance. I don't think the journalist meant to lump him in with IED planters in Iraq.

- Dave

[Laurab]

37. But Dave....that was before an insurgent was an

INSURGENT. That word practically jumped out at me when I was reading and I immediately had a bad reaction. You may be right, but I think that word needs to be retired by the journalist if you are.

Anyway - it's nice to see you! :hi:

[stillcool]

27. OMG...this is a shocker...

the Corporate Cable Media has informed me of something! I can't believe I've never looked the word up in a dictionary..wild..thanks..

[KAZ]

28. How utterly understanding of you.

I used to be that way. The last 6 years have changed me. Shove it back up their ass, and smile the whole time.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285339/

[WinkyDink]

46. Context IS everything--and the context is the WAR IN IRAQ.

Just like "the meaning of 'is'" is no longer merely a semantics question.

[KAZ]

24. Here's the link. Let the fuckers know what you think.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285339/

[blogslut]

35. It's an AP story

Here's that link:

http://www.ap.org/pages/contact/contact.html

The writer's name is David Espo

[cosmicdot]

48. found this version by Espo

Mar 27, 11:11 PM EDT

Senate Signals Support for Iraq Timeline

By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent

"Lieberman, who won a new term last fall in a three-way race after losing the Democratic nomination to an anti-war insurgent, depicted the vote as a turning point. He said the effect of the timeline would be to 'snatch defeat from the jaws of progress in Iraq'."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ?SITE=MIBAX&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[windbreeze]

25. OH, my lord....shaking my head...wondering what next????

an anti-war insurgent????? EXCUSE ME!!!! Lamont WAS the Democratic NOMINEE...the insurgent was Lieberman, when you get right down to it...
windbreeze

[Gold Metal Flake]

31. Dam You, Liberal Media!

They have exposed Project Q!

[Catherine Vincent]

32. Snatch?

:evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

34. Sounds like the hind lick maneuver.

[electron_blue]

38. LOL! I never heard that expression before

[lonestarnot]

40. The mental image is appropriate here I think.

Actually, I just read my email with a funny joke about the hind lick maneuver. I would repeat the joke, but I don't want to hijack the thread here.

[Toucano]

41. That's what we need: More anti-war insurgents! n/t

[WinkyDink]

43. O.M.G. Can it be any more blatant? Totally disgusting.

[youthere]

44. Isn't he supposed to want defeat "snatched"away?

Or to put it another way, wasn't he supposed to say "snatch VICTORY from the jaws of progress in Iraq?"

[nam78_two]

45. WTF

:wtf:

[otherlander]

47. We're voting for them... here...

so we don't have to... vote for them over there? :wtf:

[Cobalt Violet]

49. K & R

That's messed up.

[DearAbby]

52. What?

I took off my glasses and cleaned them, I could not believe what I read...an Anti War INSURGENT???

Next they will write..Anti war terrorists. Hell skip that, Anti AMERICAN. Are they dropping hints like bricks?