Friday, January 21, 2011

Netanyahu as "amour-plated bullshitter" and other bloopers

I wasn't on the outlook for bloopers today. It is simply that this Jerusalem Post headline jumped at me from the screen:

Of course, they meant "armour-plated", and it says so in the article itself:
Britain believed that then Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was an "armour-plated bullshitter", former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications chief Alistair Campbell was quoted as writing in 1998, The Guardian reported Thursday.
Interestingly, both the typo and the original image fit the subject...

Of course, to verify the story and the quote I went to look for the original article in The Guardian. Yep. The stories match, and more:
Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who recently left the Labour party to strengthen his coalition with Netanyahu, also believes the Israeli prime minister is a bullshitter.
Sure, it takes one to know one. Not that Tony Blair couldn't make up a classy trinity of bulshitters, of course.

Another fine prize waited for me further down the text of the same Guardian's article:

Blood-soaked death throat? Royal Mail has started a new and hitherto unheard of service, it looks like.

Well, all in a day's work...

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