Thursday, November 27, 2008

Vacuous quote of the day:

From a Christiane Amanpour interview on the current festivities in Mumbai:
CNN: An attack this large, this sophisticated, and carried out with no warning could have come from inside India, maybe, maybe outside, maybe a neighboring state could be involved.
Well, thank you for narrowing that down for us, Captain Obvious. Did we need to pad out air time or word count?

8 comments:

atlharp said...

Don't forget, "Women and minorities hardest hit!"

Anonymous said...

"...although this is by no means certain."

Anonymous said...

The people who did it were either male or female. You heard it here first!

shooter said...

This is what happens when you let a television anchor think for herself.

Hunsdon said...

Mrs. Jamie Rubin strikes again!

staghounds said...

Also Moslems, or not Moslems.

NotClauswitz said...

The Deccan Plateau is the location of Hyderabad and Secundrabad and Golconda Fort with canons big enough to fit a man inside the bore - Medieval period Muslim city-states that once held sway into the last Century - and which they won fair and square through massive warfare and population decimation - so "Deccan Mujihiden" is a fit name for medieval revivalism.

While south Bombay is called the "financial center" of India, given the massive internal bureaucracy and lethargy it's not exactly like Manhattan (except maybe 24/7 level rush-hour traffic jams) and the WTC, or the tightly knit organizations that operated there.
Bombings and killings inflicted there are going to be acts of mayhem but not a climactic or immediately catastrophic event.

phlegmfatale said...

And we may already have won $10,000,000 in the publisher's clearing house sweepstakes.