Comments on: Dear NYT

By: sepoy

sepoy — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:43:46 +0000

You know, I did google around for Ms. Zoepf and found nothing as inane. Hence, I addressed my rant to NYT. That paper is losing its mind.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:37:30 +0000

…odd, too, because this is the same k. zoepf who’s done some good and sensitive reporting from syria in the past, esp. on the kurds; as well as probably the only article on the issue of the assyrian christian minority in southern turkey that i’ve seen in the mainstream US press. also she was a college classmate of dear S., who has said nice things about her. lord knows what prompted the above-quoted flights of fantasia, but she’s not just some dim orientalist on a two-week press junket in dubai.

By: babu

babu — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:04:47 +0000

as i lay on the floor

with my country at war

i wish i could care

but my liver’s too sore…

okay, not true. f&*k, F**K F*&^%&&%CK these f*&^*%%&ing f%$ks. sheikhs too.

would rant more, but i gotta go attend to my arranged marriage…

By: chapati mystery :: Know Thy Enemy

chapati mystery :: Know Thy Enemy — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:01:05 +0000

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By: PDCS

PDCS — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:29:56 +0000

Yo Sepoy, you game mockin Pakistan army! and that’s cool, right. skin color aside, same blood flow everywhere! orientalist. why blame poor NYT reportress?

By: Farangi

Farangi — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:31:10 +0000

She does say “the idea” conjures. Doesn’t that sort of buttress Said’s thesis, and by extension, Sepoy’s? Also, let’s not be too hasty. Without Orientalism I would have no sexual fantasies of any kind. Humbly yours,

By: sepoy

sepoy — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:13:07 +0000

chanad: i did see the link off of Abu Aadvark and even had picked up choice quotes to mock…and then I realized that mocking NYT is one thing. Mocking US-Army. Well.

By: saud

saud — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:29:30 +0000

That westpoint link is really damn scary. Hmmm….CTC sure sounds a lot like CTU…Art reflecting life or is life reflecting art? Maybe we need to hire some moorish academics to study this phenomena.

Ah, my favorite:

http://www.ctc.usma.edu/imagery_geography.asp#kuwait

By: antje

antje — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:02:35 +0000

it would seem that Ms. Zoepf is referencing that NYer article a while back which made the claim that *because* of [insert forgotten Middle-East-based airline here]‘s extensive drop-down menu of titles (including, but not limited to: Dowager, Sheikh, and Rear Admiral (Upper Half)), its passengers must be accordingly worthy of such-ranked designation.

she does not, however, seem to have made it to the conclusion of said article, in which it was also noted that Amtrak, too, boasted a remarkable myriad of honorifics (including suffixes!) in the ticket-sales portion of its website.

By: chanad

chanad — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:50:37 +0000

ill be honest with you. i do recall seeing a falcon on a plane in the gulf once or twice. but it was just a single bird tethered to a perch… not “cages full of sqauwking falcons”.

if you want to see some more Orientalism then check out this beauty:

http://www.ctc.usma.edu/imagery.asp

(via abu aarvark http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2006/05/islamist_imager.html )

By: Baraka

Baraka — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:41:15 +0000

*sigh

I love Orientalism.