He’s So Ronery
Some anonymous guy with a pretentiously-named blog reports that Kim Jong Il is not amused by Kim Jong-Il’s unauthorized appearance in Team America.
According to this anonymous (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) blogger, whom Matt Drudge routinely quotes as though he were a newspaper, some other blogger or newspaper you’ve never heard of in the Czech Republic recently reported that some unnamed Korean-looking guy who claimed to be a North Korean diplomat said something sort-of like the following:
This movie halms the image of our countly. Such behaviol is not palt of our countly’s poritical curture. Prease ban this movie immediatery.
UPDATE: OK, so maybe I was a bit unfair to Mr. Tribune. His “news” site may glorified blog, but he isn’t really anonymous.
UPDATE: The Associated Press (h/t: Mary Madigan) is reporting the story, too. Looks like Mr. Il really is ronery after all.
February 9th, 2005 at 2:49 pm
Dude, World Trib rocks. I read them every day. They’ve got Bill Gertz of the Washington Times doing special pieces for them, and they were the first to break the “WMD convoy to Syria” story in 2003.
I’ve got them bookmarked as “media” and not “blog”. They’ve got actual editors & such.
February 9th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Trouble is, “they” (he) have (has) a history of breaking all sorts of stories, most of which, like the one you mentioned, don’t seem to go anywhere. Sure, World Tribune has an editor. So does every other blog, including damnum absque injuria.
February 9th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
Actually, David Kay confirmed some of that story a while later: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html
The story came back during the NYTrogate story with speculation that the missing HE from AlQaQaa was in the trucks instead of WMD.
So I take the WTrib with a grain of salt, sure, but I do that with the MSM as well.
February 9th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Oh, and everybody knows it’s not a real blog unless it has comments!:razz: I remember some harshing on the Corner for just this reason.
February 9th, 2005 at 9:39 pm
The McGrath story says WT said AQ claimed credit for “last month’s blackout”, presumably the Midwest blackout. AFAIK, it was the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade which may or may not be associated with AQ. Although, whether they really claimed credit or someone said they did would need to be researched.
As far as “ronery” is concerned, isn’t the l/r confusion mainly a Japanese thing? I haven’t noticed Chinese or Koreans confusing l/r but I might not have been paying too much attention.
February 10th, 2005 at 12:42 am
The Japanese and Korean languages are related, but I don’t know if Korean distinguishes the r and the l sounds. I do know that Kim Jong Il talks that way in the movie, though.
February 10th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
That’s Mr. Kim, to you. Koreans keep their family names first. The L/R thing is real, though…we have only one consonant for both sounds and those sounds are dependent on their placement with other consonants. It is a scientifically designed language with few aberrations, not like your mongrel English.
February 11th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
Speaking of the Dear Little Leader’s penchant for micro-managing (which is what I think “roneryness” must be):
Get a haircut, people!