Comments on: Lisa’s Dispassionate Tone Freaks Me Out

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:23:07 +0000

Jim R, on that last theme, check out the documentary (I believe it’s rentable) on the work of James Nachtwey. It’s truly incredible.

By: Jim R

Jim R — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:09:08 +0000

It is not 72 virgins, it is 12 virgins. You are guilty of ‘distorting’ the story. By restating pure unsubstantiated rumor as fact, you attempt to make us out as nothing but selfish, sex-crazed, western type degenerate infidels lacking any morals.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are hapless, sex-deprived, eastern type degenerate martyrs(has a nice ring doesn’t it) full of twisted morals.

Please do check your facts in the future. We don’t need to look worse than we really are. Thanks in advance CK.

Without singling out Lisa, it has always made me wonder why ‘journalist’ don’t put down the camera and lend a hand in emergencies.

By: amishav

amishav — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:47:46 +0000

The detachment is professional in my estimation. I’d rather read Lisa’s sort of report than the BS that the BBC put on the air when Arafat died. Remember that? The reporter speaking about the tears in her eyes waxing about the glory of the Arafat years coming to an end. Lisa has it right.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:30:34 +0000

Thanks for the sweet b’day wishes, guys! I’m going to celebrate this weekend.

By: Jewish Mother

Jewish Mother — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:10:01 +0000

The first live television of Israeli news on internet is at :

infolive.tv.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:06:53 +0000

Happy birthday, Lisa!

By: ck

ck — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:01:23 +0000

It’s your birthday?? Well Happy Friggin Birthday to you, you dispassionate Canuck beeyatch! No but seriously, do try to enjoy it. Remind me to score you another carton of Gauloises next time I go to chutz la’aretz!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:48:54 +0000

Thanks for the mention, CK. Yesterday was a rough day and I’m still feeling a bit messed up, but hey – it’s my birthday and life goes on.

By: ck

ck — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:38:28 +0000

Hey Ben-David, I wasn’t trying to be critical of Lisa’s post. I well know she’s a journalist. And a Canadian which might explain her icy disposition when reporting on this horrific act. But I was nonetheless kinda freaked by the tone – not in a bad way, just in my gut. That syas nothing negative about what Lisa wrote or how she wrote about it.

By: Ben-David

Ben-David — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:25:22 +0000

Your headline is unfair.
1) She works in journalism.
2) She introduces the whole thing with a description of how Israelis have become inured/developed coping reactions to these attacks.