Comments on: The Headline Game - 1/31/07 http://www.shakespeareteacher.com/blog/archives/60 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:34:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bill http://www.shakespeareteacher.com/blog/archives/60#comment-72 Bill Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:55:35 +0000 http://www.shakespeareteacher.com/blog/archives/60#comment-72 The Castro headline sounds like it might be about a book deal. I probably would have thought that one real and pegged the idea of the Pentagon selling F-14 parts as straight out of <em>The Onion</em>. And actually, if you read <a href=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/30/pentagon.f14.ap/index.html rel="nofollow">the rest of the article</a>, it doesn't get any less funny. The reason they are stopping these sales is because Iran is still using the F-14. Then the article quotes a bunch of senators, much as <em>The Onion</em> might pretend to do, talking about how it makes sense to stop selling these F-14 parts. The Castro headline sounds like it might be about a book deal. I probably would have thought that one real and pegged the idea of the Pentagon selling F-14 parts as straight out of The Onion.

And actually, if you read the rest of the article, it doesn’t get any less funny. The reason they are stopping these sales is because Iran is still using the F-14. Then the article quotes a bunch of senators, much as The Onion might pretend to do, talking about how it makes sense to stop selling these F-14 parts.

]]> By: Lee http://www.shakespeareteacher.com/blog/archives/60#comment-71 Lee Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.shakespeareteacher.com/blog/archives/60#comment-71 Okay, that's better: four for four. I think I'm good as long as they're not weather-related, though the Castro one seems at least marginally believable . . . Okay, that’s better: four for four. I think I’m good as long as they’re not weather-related, though the Castro one seems at least marginally believable . . .

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