Now as we all know, the grandiloquent man-children behind the blogograph ThinkProgress Watch are not well known for their command of grammar or diction. But it appears that the problem may be worse than we originally suspected. It seems that they are having difficulty distinguishing several letters of the alphabet. Specifically, the letters S and B.
In today’s bit of blogghorea, they cite TP poster Bilbo “Hussein” Baggins thusly:
Think Progress as has been documented here at TP Watch has expressed open suppport for the Iranian backed Mahdi Army. Well poster Bilbo Hussein express his support of this Fascist Organization.
Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 amIraqi Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for a million-strong demonstration against U.S. ‘occupation,’ a potentially destabilizing show of force after his followers battled U.S. and government troops.
Do you suppose having a million people in Iraq saying “get the hell out of our country” would be enough for Bush. Nah… he could care less what the people in Iraq think.
Now, putting aside for a moment the fact that Bilbo’s quote doesn’t actually express any support for Shi’ite cleric Muqtada as-Sadr, we can also see that the TP Watcher is quite confused in his description of as-Sadr’s organization as the “Iranian backed Mahdi Army.”
As numerous news organizations have reported, it is not the Mahdi Army of Muqtada as-Sadr that is backed by Iran, but the Badr Organization (the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council) that was formed in Iran in the 1980s and continues to receive support from Iran. The Badr Organization is the one allied with the ad-Da’wa party of Iraqi President Noori al-Maliki.
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that at least one of the posters at TP Watch failed kindergarten and thus is unable to distinguish between these two very different letters.
