Apple Sauce

By PoliPundit ~ April 11th, 2003 @ 10:19 am

Jack Shafer rips into (in)famous NY times defeatist Johnny Apple. Read and savor:

Never before has Apple soared to such heights of self-parody! Just two weeks ago, Apple had the United States choking on quicksand; four days ago, the United States’ big problem was to know how to define victory. Now, the United States is a latter-day Roman Empire. And he gives a history lesson about U.S. interventions since Vietnam that would not look out of place in Highlights for Children.

The best way to give critical justice to today’s piece would involve reproducing all 1,100 words of it and highlighting every sentence in yellow, with an appropriate annotation (“Well, duh!”; “No kidding?”; “How stupid does Johnny Apple think we are?”; and so on).