Jacoby Clarifies...

The following "clarification" ran at the bottom of Jeff Jacoby's column in the Boston Sunday Globe 7-20-03:
Clarification: I wrote last week that while initial reports on the looting of the Baghdad museum put the number of stolen objects at 170,000, subsequent reports drastically reduced that number to fewer than 50. Even more recent reports have revised the number back up to at least 6,000 and as many as 13,000.

So what do we learn from this?
That Jeff Jacoby can't count worth a damn.
Well what of it?
He after all a barrister by training, a mere shyster, not an art history expert or even an experienced journalist.
If "mainstream conservatism" (that thrashing fatally gored saurian) is to achieve the historically necessary "dictatorship of the punditariat" then a few shrill amateurs have to thrown into the fight.
Heck the ability to count is a definite drawback on the revolutionary right...William Safire can't count, Bill Kristol is hopeless at it...why the very act of counting the body bags at Dover AFB is considered a treasonous act to the men-on-horseback of the City Room.
Hence Jeff....
Ah Jeff Jacoby, that grinning smirking young senescence...inexplicably called in 1994 to a heroic destiny at the pinnacle of the Opinion Industry.
Never particularly good at marshaling his story straight, but a King Hell monsta at crying poormouth month after month year after year.
Any attempt to engage him in a debate or note his distorted or nonexistent "facts" invites the accusation of jackbooted political correctitude stifling beleaguered conservatives' first amendment rights.
A book could easily be published containing all the letters to the Boston Globe correcting Jeff's addlepated distortions of the facts.
Oh it's FRIGHTFULLY tough to be a lone Jacobyn, fighting the good fight on behalf of sore oppressed conservatives....Jeff has been dining out in style on that line along for nearly a decade now.
And there is no end in sight for his well fed times I assure you.
The marks are well heeled and the livin's easy.
All you need is innumeracy and the balls of a demagogue.

Sick
Demented
Typical...