pants

there are a lot of things that you could say about the sun newspaper (and most of them would not be pleasant), but every now and then you have to admire them for their sheer front.
the other day they printed pictures of saddam in his mighty whites washing out his socks. the headline was "tyrant's in his pants".
there was, rightly, an uprorar over this.
if only because we want to be seen to be better than all the other tyrants around the place.... ooops little late after the abu graibh and camp x situations, but better late than never eh!)

anyway so today's (saturday 21st may) headline is "bush probes saddam's pants: president vows to get to the bottom of it!". it's all you want in a headline really - it tells you the news and has a smutty pun or two in it. plus it lets you know that the sun really doesn't care what anyone thinks of them.

the sun reports bush as saying that the pictures will not lead to attacks as pictures do not push people to murder but backward barbaric ideology does. later on the picture is described as giving a blow to the morale of the resistance as it shows them how saddam is now.
so on the one hand the picture will do nothing.
on the other hand it will do lots.
i like that sort of logic.
(while many would argue that the resistance fighters/ insurgents/ rebels call them what you will are fighting to get rid of the occupancy and not to free saddam!)

best of all the sun leader has a pop at both the bbc and guardian.
the beeb have raised questions about the rights of showing the pictures, to which the sun says:
"only someone recruited via a job advert in the guardian could have such a partial and polluted view of life."

i guess all that guff about us being better than saddam, about us bring justice, about us bringing values to the middle east don't mean that much to the sun.