[Politics] Shooting the messenger
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8172916/WikiLeaks-guilty-parties-should-face-death-penalty.html
Literalism strikes again. The strange thing about the recent revelations is how much they seem to be things that anyone who cared and was paying attention believed anyway: Chilcot enquiry nobbled, Iran dangerous, Royal makes gaffe to foreigners, after-dinner speakers make off-colour jokes to receptive audiences, the caucasus is full of eccentric dictators, etc. The response involves another factor:
(on the suggestion of murdering Assange) As the anchor on the CBC news programme warned him that his comments were “pretty harsh stuff”, Prof Flanagan responded that he was “feeling very manly today”.
Asserting masculinity through murdering people who inconvenience you? How 12th-century.
Literalism strikes again. The strange thing about the recent revelations is how much they seem to be things that anyone who cared and was paying attention believed anyway: Chilcot enquiry nobbled, Iran dangerous, Royal makes gaffe to foreigners, after-dinner speakers make off-colour jokes to receptive audiences, the caucasus is full of eccentric dictators, etc. The response involves another factor:
(on the suggestion of murdering Assange) As the anchor on the CBC news programme warned him that his comments were “pretty harsh stuff”, Prof Flanagan responded that he was “feeling very manly today”.
Asserting masculinity through murdering people who inconvenience you? How 12th-century.