Good riddance to the most undeserving Nobel Peace Prize winner of all time.
I was tempted to start a thread and title it “Arafat and Francisco Franco are still dead.” Why didn’t you do that? You missed your big chance!
CBS pre-empted the last 5 minutes of CSI: NY to tell me this in a Special Report at 10:55. Fuckers. They couldn’t wait 5 fucking minutes for the regular news at 11:00??
Alternate title: “God bless his SOUL”
To yosemite:
You are right. “Chairman Yasser Arafat and General Francisco Franco are still dead.” That would have been hilarious. I blew it. Oh, well…
Umm . . . no, that would be Henry Kissinger. By a very comfortable margin.
You’re both wrong. It’s Rigoberta Menchu, who won on the basis of a book proven to be utterly fraudulent.
Oh no, you don’t. Nuh-uh. This is one of those, “Can I get your initial respon–Err, just kidding! HA! He’s still kickin’!” posts, isnt it?
Look, until they let me poke the body with a stick, I just don’t buy it.
Unless they stuff his mouth with garlic and drive a stake through his heart, I don’t buy it
Nope he’s dead alright.
I wonder when the rioting will begin.
Probably when they try to roll his corpse up to Jeruselem for burial.
30+ years too late. =(
Cheers!
BA
Fox broke into the Friends rerun at about 11:15pm: my first thought on seeing the “special report” graphic was along the lines of “what, did Joe Gibbs sprain his pinky or something? why, I remember back in the day when a ‘special report’ meant something…like someone died or something…” and then they flashed the “Arafat dead at 75” title. :smack:
I absolutely agree, though, that CBS are bastards for not waiting 5 damn minutes so that show could finish!
Here’s a bourgeois statement: what an irony that he died comfortably in bed!
(ding dong the witch is dead…)
It is utterly disgusting that the media are treating this as some sort of sad event.
Well to be honest, it’s better then the media celebrating.
Like we need more reasons for people to hate us.
He’s dead, fuck him, lets leave it at that.
Hey buddy, I may not know all of the mysterious inner-workings of the Palestinian mind, but that’ll piss 'em off real good.
Arafat is dead, and I don’t want to imagine the monster who will succeed him.
Arafat was the devil we knew, is what it all comes down to. Even if you hated him, you knew what he was capable of and what he wasn’t. He didn’t, for example, buy nukes to put in his car bombs. The next guy, for all we know, could do just that.
The Middle East is quickly falling apart.
Brutus, dancing in the street.
Ululating, and firing his guns into the air with wild abandon.
Is that a uniform he’s wearing?