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U.S. Seemingly Unaware of Irony in Accusing Snowden of Spying
- scotty79 13y agoIf you get caught by your hand while stealing - claim it's not your hand.
- mgaw 13y agoThis is doublespeak.
- milkshakes 13y agoActually, it's satire.
- mgaw 13y agoAh, I see. Thanks.
- o0-0o 13y agoNow the New Yorker is posting articles like The Onion. The world really is upside down at the moment.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoBorowitz has been doing satire at the New Yorker for a long time. This one is just profoundly close to being not-satirical. The world isn't very different from last month, except that more people are becoming more aware how our government conducts itself.
- Nursie 13y agoThis is the only thing that has been shocking to me - that so many people are suprised.
- brandall10 13y agoDiscussed and declared dead yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5925294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5925294
- nealabq 13y agoAndy Borowitz is a well-known satirist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Borowitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Borowitz
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoCould we please stop with the NSA horseshit. The Democratic National Party has identified techies as a target demographic for their Media Circus and is seeding these stories to garner votes and attention. We need to be concerned about the bigger picture, the story being covered up by the "OMG Snowden is a cyberpunk, how dreamy". The bigger picture is that Washington, D.C. has allowed the security apparatus to rot. Misplaced nuclear missiles, abysmal physical security at nuclear bomb plants, total lack of mandatory access controls on computer system, inability to close the decision loop on protecting assets on foreign soil, etc. The DNP keeps running these tech celebrity scandal stories to distract from the catastrophic state of American security.
- untog 13y agoStories about Snowden might be tech celebrity scandal, but stories about the NSA are not. And do you have any evidence that the Democratic Party is attempting a coverup here?
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoThe evidence is that the DNP has media operations research down cold. They are the RAND Corporation of public dialog manipulation. The evidence is that the DNP was caught actually doing things with the IRS that are 1000% worse than what the NSA is hypothesized to maybe have done. That they desperately need a way to cover it up, something spectacular and engaging to run in the press. The evidence is that everybody knew the NSA has been doing this since the OSS days. The liberal kiddies voting up this Snowden crap weren't even alive for the running gag of Echelon surveillance in the 1990s, where everybody assumed the NSA was intercepting everything and that you might as well put in suspicious keywords to screw with them. The evidence is that the NSA intercept rooms at telecom interchanges were well known for decades. Again, it is a running joke that the NSA controls entire rooms and even floors of majors interchanges. So given the half-century long intel program, why is there now media saturation and 48 point headlines? The answer must be that somebody needs there to be a media circus, that somebody keeps feeding leaks and quid-pro-quos into the media machine. There are many organizations who have the capability to do it, like Johnson and Johnson, but most of them can be ruled out as getting no benefit. The one remaining org that needs a distraction is the DNP, to let the Benghazi, IRS, Syria, and other fiascos blow over.
- eli 13y agoSatire is really really hard to do well. The Onion's been a roll, however: http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-administration-releases-nations-phone-record,32712/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-administration-releas...
- doktrin 13y agoSeriously? Are we so hungry for opinions on this case that we rabidly up-vote clumsily written satirical blurbs (twice)?