Thursday, November 16, 2006

Chimps with typewriters

They didn't produce a Shakespearean play. No, instead they appear to have produced what might just be the most poorly-written news article I've ever seen.

And if it wasn't written by chimps, well, the Associated Press has no excuse. Pathetic.

Update: Just in case the AP can find an editor to fix this hash, I'll excerpt the fourth and fifth paragraphs, where the train wreck really begins in earnest. Mind you, this is how they appear, verbatim:
He said the jinx would sent spirits to posses Secret Service personnel guarding Bush and left them in a trance, leading them into falsely thinking the President was under attack, thus eventually causing chaos in Bogor Presidential Palace, where the American leader was scheduled to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday.

Indonesia the world's most populous Muslim country, however many still practicing animist rituals, including black magic, that predate Islam's arrival in the archipelago.
Ugh. That was ostensibly written by a journalist who works for a professional news wire with seasoned editors who, I guess, were either all asleep when this was posted, don't speak a word of English, or are functionally illiterate.

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