We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
«  
  »

Samizdata slogan of the day

· Slogans & Quotations

I don’t fault Dan Rather for going to Baghdad. If someone had interviewed Hitler in ‘39 for three hours, we’d prize the tapes as an invaluable historical document.
– James Lileks from his Bleat this morning

February 28th, 2003 |

5 comments to Samizdata slogan of the day

  • Natalie Solent
    February 28, 2003 at 11:48 am

    Amigo, you missed the best quote:

    Sometimes history is farce the first time.

  • mark
    February 28, 2003 at 12:55 pm

    No of course, we journalists are expected to be free to interview people.

    Mind you, would an interview with Hitler be so prized if there were dozens of other surviving interviews in several languages from the same period?

  • Johnathan
    February 28, 2003 at 2:37 pm

    Having been a journalist myself, I would love such an interview, so long as I could ask this question:

    “Saddam, any chance you take Michael Moore from us as a human shield?”

  • Byron
    February 28, 2003 at 2:42 pm

    Did anybody catch Hussein’s comments re women? He said “Jealously is for women, not men. Men should not be jealous of each other.”

    The media is probably purposefully not reporting it so as not to turn Susan Sarandon & Co. against the war.

  • Alan K. Henderson
    March 1, 2003 at 8:44 am

    Now if we could get Bill O’Reilly to interview Saddam…

«  
  »