INDCJournal: Say What?

June 27, 2005

Say What?

Posted by Bill

Moral relativism to end all moral relativism: Aussie newspaper editor Andrew Jaspan criticized a former hostage's insensitivity for ... labeling his former captors - who beat him and "killed two of his colleagues" - "assholes:"

"I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood's use of the a---hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.
"The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive."

Via Tim Blair, who has more, including a pledge from another former hostage to track down his captors "one by one."

Posted by Bill at June 27, 2005 08:22 AM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

Insensitive, huh?

How about "dead assholes"? That has a much better ring to it.

Posted by: Tom at June 27, 2005 10:32 AM

Is there such a thing as pre-emptive Stockholm Syndrome? Do all newspaper editors have it?

Posted by: ccwbass at June 27, 2005 01:51 PM

Yet another example of, when I get sick and tired of Republicans, I look at what liberals and leftist are saying, and go straight back into the Bush camp. Yeeesh.

Posted by: rbj at June 27, 2005 05:41 PM

maybe they made him listen to christina aguilera? maybe they touched his bible? maybe he threw feces at them and deserved any assholish conduct they directed at him as a result?

i just can't stand the liberals whining about gtmo, and defending jihadi abuse.

didn't they execute two people in the same room he was in? while he was in it?

Posted by: mlah at June 27, 2005 10:33 PM

ccwbass

Close. I've heard another person label it Stockholm Syndrome by Proxy.

Damn, I wish I had thought of it!

Geez, it sounds like something from a Monty Python routine.

Posted by: Darleen at June 28, 2005 12:55 AM