Unfortunately the U.S. military had already invaded Public Enemy by the time of this correction. [Washington Post]
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WaPo never misses the important stories, and always corrects its errors.
Quick someone call the S1W’s. Quick fast in a hurry, don’t worry flava vision ain’t blurry.
Imma call my next album “Washington Post is a Joke”
And the man of Steele replied, ‘What up’?
Fear of a Black Planet was recorded in 1989.
9/11 wasn’t much of anything back then.
War at 33 1/3?
What’s even better is that song came out in ohhhh 1989. Dicks. But since i know have PE on the brain:
“I got a letter from the government, the other day
I opened and read it, it said they were suckers
They wanted be for their army or whatever
picture me givin’ a damn, I said ‘Never’!”
Goddammit, now I am dying to listen to Fear of a Black Planet.
Another corrections by The WaPost
“In our story on Wednesday, we referred to war with Iran as ‘bad’. We did not mean ‘bad’ as in bad, but ‘bad’ meaning good.”
Yup, “Fear of a Black Planet” was released in 1990. (I double-checked).
“So get up a get get get down. Washington Post is a joke in yo town.”
Seriously, what a stupid fuck up. That song came out about 100 years before 9/11 happened. Stupid assholes.
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They remembered when The Coup blew up the WTC with their guitar tuner and they’ve been waiting the lash out at the urban jazz ever since.
[re=472240]yoxul[/re]: wat
Here’s your ticket! Hear the pundit wicked!
Your answer good is yEs !1 Bag of dicks yum.
By the way, Public Enemy is bullshit. I just called 9-11. They didn’t tell me any goddamn jokes!
U.S. out of Elvis!
In a further correction, WaPo noted that apparently “Don’t Believe the Hype” is not a song about the use of hypodermic needles in the Obama administration’s proposed health care plan.
Don’t Believe the Typos!
[re=472231]SmutBoffin[/re]: Washington Post: “Yo, our bad.”
[re=472224]whiskey tango foxtrot[/re]: McCain’s campaign slogan for 2012 is:
“By the time I get to Arizona, you better be off my goddamn lawn!”
[re=472241]shadowMark[/re]: I actually own that CD without the “corrected” cover.
Fear of Beck Planet
[re=472240]yoxul[/re]: Choke on poisoned rat dicks and your own feces and die.
Obviously WaPo prefers Kool Moe Dee to LL Cool J.
[re=472226]Godot[/re]: And here, I thought the Local Living writer had discovered that Chuck D had the power to predict the future.
[re=472255]glamourdammerung[/re]: Commie jazz beatnik. Bristol wants to have your baby. Willow too. But Piper’s giving you the finger.
[re=472231]SmutBoffin[/re]: Because you’ve been a good wittle Wonketteer, your wish is granted…
signed,
Father War-On-Christmas
[re=472244]SmutBoffin[/re]: Today, the spammers quite a lot of we are getting.
What the WaPo needs is a consultant like Dope MC Michael Steele.
[re=472261]shadowMark[/re]: But she’ll add two for an additional $10.
Rudy Giuliani insisted that this is still an insult to the victims of 9/11.
WHAT UP WAPO
[re=472248]Yaybuls[/re]: Were you holding the phone correctly when you dialed?
Because if not, you would’ve heard the following pre-recorded message (if the ear end of your phone wasn’t still next to your mouth, that is):
“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
Fear of a Black Planet, released in 1990, 11 years before 9/11. *11*
“Public Enemy” – *11* letters long.
“911 Is A Joke” sung by “Flavor Flav” (both *10* letters long) on the #*1* Billboard Hip-Hop album of 1990. 10+1= *11*
Could this possibly be a coincidence? Does anyone *not* seriously believe that Public Enemy brought down the Twin Towers?
[re=472240]yoxul[/re]: Get stuffed, Turkey! Spanksgiving was last week!
[re=472275]parenthetical[/re]: Quick! Somebody check their art cover from that album! Does anyone see a couple of smoldering towers anywhere in there? Devil’s face in the smoke? Anything?
[re=472275]parenthetical[/re]: Terminator X, also.
Wait, tho…does this mean that thse sorts of fuckers are finally reaching the end of the Reagan Era?
What the reporter originall wrote was 711.
What dumbass wrote the column in the first place? Because you just know Flavor Flave’s gonna release the Flavor of Love pack on him or her.
PE wasn’t even recording in 2001 to the best of my knowledge. And although Fear of a Black Planet will live forever (Fight the Power!), the notion they were more prescient than TuPac in that Chapelle show sketch about his posthumous releases is a stretch.
Remember last year when they did a big promotion with young people saying that all the hip cats use the Post Weekend Section to find out what to do?
And the young people they used as models all looked like federal bureaucrats, only with hair product and weird eyeglasses?
Next the Post will have interns playing Beatles stuff backwards and writing a three-part series on it, they are getting so au courant.
…and the Washington Post can’t even blame it on being a “West Coast fan”. This bit of reporting done no doubt by one of those tools that used to sit by the fireplace and try to be “funny”. I’m pretty sure the WaaPoo is the joke…
Jeez, I’ve been using “9/11 is a joke” for two or three years — http://wonkette.com/tag/911-is-a-joke — and nobody ever noticed, not even you alleged PE-listening old people.
New York Post, get your story straight, motherfuckers.
Wait, that song wasn’t about Porsches?
[re=472272]Car Ramrod[/re]: YO DA WAPO SAY WHAT UP!
David Broder is wack.
Reminds me of George Will completely misunderstanding “Born in the USA”. Sam Donalsdon had to correct him. HA HA HA. Still makes me laugh.
“Black Steele in the Hour of Chaos” did turn out to be oddly prescient.
Why is whitey editing the District edition?
These people must be the same C-span callers who talk about ‘Nine One One,’ when any intelligent person knows it’s Nine Sideways-thingy Double One. Whatevs. It’s Friday and I need some ‘Poonington talk here.
[re=472294]Ken Layne[/re]: Needs more Hanson.
Here, I fixed it.
Correction
A 2003-2009 article in the News and Opinion edition incorrectly said that WMDs in Iraq were a growing threat. The WMDs in Iraq refers to something the Bush administration made up.
[re=472241]shadowMark[/re]: I can hardly blame their outrage at the The Coup’s elitism. Seriously, a guitar tuner, as if to imply the band’s vocals and instrumentation are on key? How socialist. Any self-respecting, successful recording artist in this county uses an auto-tuner, out of respect for rest the tone-deaf population.
Coloreds read the Washington Post?
So does Sarah Palin…
The original article is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112501993.html?sub=AR
Looks like they’ve tried fixing the error in a way that fails to really fix it:
“Public Enemy has earned notoriety with more than 20 years of politically charged music about fighting the power, challenging racism and declaring that 911 was a joke.”
[re=472302]Suds McKenzie[/re]: Yeah, he’s off the Hippity Hoppity beat now. Maybe the WaPo can have a new contest–Young Hip White Guy to Write About Late 80s Rap Acts. I’d apply, ‘cept I’m neither young nor hip, but compared with the WaPo retirement home…..
Wake me up when they start quoting Wu Tang. Local Living, you need diversify your bonds, nigga.
Fact checking is an example of pre-9/11 thinking.
[re=472329]DangerousLiberal[/re]: Akeya Dickson is a she, and what’s more, Secretary of the Washington Association of Black Journalists:
“Akeya is an editorial assistant with the Washington Post Sunday Source who worked at the Post while majoring in print journalism at Howard University. In addition to working in various posts at her school newspaper, The Hilltop, she interned at BET.com in Washington, DC; covered retail trends and spot news for the Equities desk at Reuters in NY; was a member in the inaugural class of the New York Times Summer Institute at Dillard University in New Orleans; and penned stories for the Chattanooga Times Free Press as a general assignment Metro reporter.”
So it’s not like Akeya should’ve known better, or something.
[re=472341]Extemporanus[/re]: Maybe maybe not. Don’t quit see putting “interned with Professor Griff” on your resume ir writing a thesis on just why Elvis is a hero to most but doesn’t mean shit to me as the way one would get hired at the WaPo. Writing articles debunking global warming on the other hand….
K-Lo is phat, also.
Just to save them the time:
The book titled “The Two Towers” also does not refer to 9/11.
A joke on the Simpsons referencing “912″ as the real number for the police does not refer to Glenn Beck’s nutcase movement.
The film “400 Blows” does, however, refer to the House Republicans’ summer intern/page event.
Not so fast, Wonkett, with your mockery! Where you misunderstand The Right is that you assume that they see time in a linear fashion, where this is absolutely not the case. They see time in an entirely crazy fashion, which is why it’s okay when they fuck underage pages and whatnot.
So-called chosen frozen.
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” … “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
So you think 1990 came before 2001,HaHa,not anymore. Only Liberals are stuck in that old-fashioned thinking.
[re=472358]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Or some fastidious, know-it all editor probably inserted the backslash after she submitted her copy. Though, in all fairness, it’s not like the WaPo isn’t teeming with Talib Kweli-listening editors.
“Cue ball Broder is a hero to none.
And he never meant shit to me (you see).
Straight up stenographer, with not much skill.
Motherfuck him and George Will.
Fight the Post.”
[re=472393]problemwithcaring[/re]: That’s probably a decent explanation as I can definitely see the editor being Whitey McWhitey III (Harvard Class of 68). But didn’t the WaPo get rid of all their fact checkers and outsourced them to the RNC’s branch office in India a few years ago?
9/11, 911, Iran, Iraq, Obama, Osama, they’re all the same damn thing, why do you libruls have to be such grammar Nazis?
Why WaPo Neocons should not write. Period.
[re=472295]Sharkey[/re]: Ain’t worth the paper it’s printed on, ya’ll
[re=472358]Hooray For Anything[/re]: BET. Q.E.D. She’s as in touch with “hip hop” as I am with Tuvan throat singing, whatever that is.
[re=472401]Henderson1985[/re]: You sir, are a dick. Fucking spammers. At least if you were selling something I could use, like a freedom tray, or a full frontal car office complete with printer and 24/7 access to free porn…..
[re=472341]Extemporanus[/re]: [re=472420]BlueStateLibtard[/re]:
No be so meanacious. Dickson [
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:-I2SP_89VvjCdM:http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v229/1484/46/q507443388_4592.jpg ]
is a ‘features writer’. Which, in the journalism hierarchy made by our lord God, places her somewhere between being a stringer and an office temp. The only positions lower are David Brooks’ and the (current) editor of the Washington Times.
[re=472294]Ken Layne[/re]: I’m too old to know what “tags” are. Whatever they are, get them off my lawn.
Why would anyone fear a black hat? Just wondering.
So, when Sir Mix-a-lot sang:
I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung
he wasn’t endorsing the violent overthrow of our Government?
Umm, wonkette, please take note of your power, or perhaps the lack of Washington Post online readership. “correction” is now the second most read online story at WaPo.
Emily Litella is still editing at WaPo, sad.
Meanwhile a group called ‘Fight The Power’ is suing to shut down all DC-area generator plants. Read all about it on page C7 of the WaPo.
Here I am, drunk on a Friday night, trying to think of a joke that involves the song “One Million Bottle Bags” while some pirate from the land of the shiny suits tries to sell me Ed Hardy douche bag shirts.
Eh, at least it don’t cost nothin’.
Ken, please kill the track suit guy.
“Best services Service is our Lift”
Serious as a heart attack,
Yours in Christ,
Ivenson
I stopped listening to rap around before Big Daddy Kane was all up in Madonna’s bizniss. But that doesn’t mean that I still think his hit records came out yesterday.
[re=472324]rocktonsammy[/re]: Mark my words, in a year or so, Sarah Palin will be orange. Orange as John Boehner. ….well, not that orange, but also too, close enough! She may even talk about how her kids have “native” blood from Todd. May. Also!
[re=472341]Extemporanus[/re]: Okay, so obviously she must be really hot. Otherwise, how could she have so many jobs and not know such a thing? Or is she the black Sarah Palin and doesn’t worry about fact-checkin? Or both!
Do. Die. Dippity.
It hurts being an old.
Believe me, one of these days we are all going to look back on 911 and laugh.
NWA was the scariest bunch of negros I have ever seen. Why did they go away? It makes me sad.
“WaPo Neocons” –
–3 for headline redundancy.
[re=472328]Mapmonger[/re]: thank you for that.
[re=472527]liquiddaddy[/re]: For reals. I’m getting all nostalgic this morning. Word.
[re=472512]El Pinche[/re]: Arthur Janov’s primal screamin’, Hawkins, Jay and Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla, Denver, John and Osmond, Donny, JJ Cale and ZZ Top and LL Bean and De De Dinah, David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, CC Rider, Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders, Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah, Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda, Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy, CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others, Life is a rock but the radio rolled me, Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me, Life is a rock but the radio rolled me, At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie
Judith Martin is the only oldster at WaPo that I respect. Maybe she’ll get a blog if she is not ready to retire, but boy am I glad that these old “mainstream” dinosaurs are dying out.
[re=472240]yoxul[/re]: And Turkish accessories to pimp yr ride are relevant to this discussion.. how? Boy, the FOI is gonna come down on yo’ ass hard.
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[re=472452]unprotoize[/re]: If I want “tags”, I’ll go to the warehouse by the train tracks, thank you very much.
Wait for the next Wa Po exclusive. It will tell us in detail how the Bush administration made dialing 9 1 1 on your phone connect to the emergency operator in order to honor those who were murdered by terrorists on September 11, 2001.
When Fear of a Black Planet was released in 1990, George H. W. Bush received a security brief entitled: “Public Enemy Determined To Make Joke About Bin Laden’s Future Attack On U.S.”
[re=472620]Honey Bunches of Scrotes[/re]: And what did he do – ignored it (again)!
It’s nice to see an establishment publication taking what black people say seriously. It’s kind of 70s, just like the Washington Post.
For all the years we looked like clowns
The joke is over smell the smoke from all around
Burn, Wapo, burn!
Fear Of A Beltway Planet.
Yet another Facepalm Moment generously brought to you by the Washington(dumb as a)Post.
Needs more non sequitur!
[re=472306]trondant[/re]: Damn, Shit, That shit is wack… Michael Steele not the only token black here, yo!!!
[re=472620]Honey Bunches of Scrotes[/re]: Whereupon the memo was immediately ignored.
My first thought was: What did Krauthammer do now?
Akeya Dickson is not a neocon.
When will Wonkette issue a correction of their own?
[re=472759]Scaggsvillain[/re]: I agree.
The Washington Post has a few neocons in the office.
Akeya Dickson is not a neocon. Nor is the editorial board that endorsed Obama for the presidency. And have you ever heard of Ezra Klein?
I’d love to see Wonkette match WaPo’s journalistic standards and issue a correction.
Fun Fact! If you go to Wonkette’s front page and scroll down, on the left side of the page you’ll see links to their favorite websites.
The third link says “Ezra Klein” but it does not link to his current blog at the Washington Post. It gives you his old blog which in turn directs you to his new WaPo site.
Is Wonkette just being stubborn?
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